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A learned commentary or exposition
A learned commentary or exposition: upon the first chapter of the second Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians Being the substance of many sermons formerly preached at Gray's-Inn, London, by that reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Sometimes Master of Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher to that honourable society. Published for the public good and benefit of the Church of Christ. By Tho. Manton, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel at Stoke-Newington, near London.A learned commentary or exposition: upon the first chapter of the second Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians Being the substance of many sermons formerly preached at Grayes-Inne, London, by that reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Sometimes Master of Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher to that honourable society. Published for the publick good and benefit of the Church of Christ. By Tho. Manton, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel at Stoake-Newington, near London.
London: printed by J.L. for N.B., 1655
A COMMENTARY upon the first CHAPTER of the second Epistle of S. PAU… › Commentary on verse 10
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There have been dangers, there are dangers, and there will be dangers. Our life is a warfare, a temptation, we are absent from God, we are alway exposed to dangers. We live in the middest of Devils, and of Devilish-minded men: we have corruptions in us that expose us to sin, and sin draws on judgments, we are alway in danger one way or other while we live in this World. But our comfort is, that as there have been dangers, and are dangers, and will be dangers; so there hath been deliverance, there is deliverance, and there will be deliverance. It is a trade that God useth, it is his Art, God knoweth how to deliver his, as Saint Peter saith; he hath alway exercised it, he is excellent at it: he hath delivered his Church, he doth deliver his Church, and he will deliver his Church: and so every particular member, he hath, and doth and will deliver them.
There have been dangers, there are dangers, and there will be dangers. Our life is a warfare, a temptation, we are absent from God, we are alway exposed to dangers. We live in the middest of Divels, and of Divellish-minded men: we have corruptions in us that expose us to sin, and sin drawes on judgments, we are alway in danger one way or other while we live in this VVorld. But our comfort is, that as there have been dangers, and are dangers, and will be dangers; so there hath been deliverance, there is deliverance, and there will be deliverance. It is a trade that God useth, it is his Art, God knoweth how to deliver his, as Saint Peter saith; he hath alway exercised it, he is excellent at it: he hath delivered his Church, he doth deliver his Church, and he will deliver his Church: and so every particular member, he hath, and doth and will diliver them.
Wonderful is the intercourse that God useth with his people, and their estate. Even as in nature there is a change and intercourse of day and night, of light and darkness, of morning and evening, of summer and winter, of hot and cold: so in the life of a Christian there are changes, dangers, and deliverance. There is a sowing in tears, and a reaping in joy; there is a night of affliction, and a morning of joy and prosperity, Heaviness may be in the evening, but joy cometh in the morning.