An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

2 COR. 1. 3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Duty of Blessing, with the Object of it being dispatched, let us now come to that Amplification and Illustration, which the Apostle useth in describing of it. And

THe Duty of Blessing, with the Object of it being dispatched, let us now come to that Amplification and Illustration, which the Apostle ufeth in describing of it. And

The first is, From a personal and relative respect, The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; Even the Father] [Greek or Hebrew]. That particle is by way of interpretation and explication. What he meaneth by God, viz. That he doth not take the word, as it is often, absolutely for the essence of the Divine Nature, as common to the three Persons; but relatively, and in the distinct personality of the first Person, and therefore said to be, The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the particle [Greek or Hebrew], as Stephanus observeth, may be rendred by Et, sed, tunc, etiam, &c. as the subject matter requireth. The Apostle doth in other places delight to use this expression, Rom. 15. 6. 2 Cor. 11. 31. Ephes. 3. 14. In which places the Apostle seemeth with much affection and cordial enlargement to make mention of this relative Title in God the Father; for this is the treasure of our comfort; herein are all our mercies contained, that we and Christ have the same Father, he by Nature, and we by Grace. So that we are not to consider of Gods paternal relation to Christ, as a speculative doctrinal truth, but as practical, and the ground of all consolation to us. Hence