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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.
So, whosoever thou art that contemnest Religion, that makest any thing ⟨p. 177⟩of greater moment and respect then that, if thou hadst not an enemy in the world, but all were thy friends: as Judas had all to be his friends, the Pharisees were his friends, he had money of them: but God opened his conscience, and he could not endure the sight of it, it spake bitter things to him, when God opened an inward hell in his conscience. So God doth deliver us outwardly and inwardly, and the inward is double, partly from despair, partly from the rage of corruptions, (as I said before) Is it not God that ties up our corruptions? There is such a world of sin in the heart of a man, as often he finds the experience of it, when he meets with a fit temptation to his disposition, that Gods Children complain of themselves that the sins of their hearts have deceived them: so God delivers men from the rage of lusts, he ties up their corruptions, and delivers them from them. And when we fall, and are ready to despair for them, he delivers us from despair. He doth deliver, he is perpetually delivering, it implies that we alway stand in need of deliverance.
So, whosoever thou art that contemnest Religion, that makest any thing ⟨p. 177⟩of greater moment and respect then that, if thou hadst not an enemy in the world, but all were thy friends: as Judas had all to be his friends, the Pharisees were his friends, he had money of them: but God opened his conscience, and he could not indure the sight of it, it spake bitter things to him, when God opened an inward hell in his conscience. So God doth deliver us outwardly and inwardly, and the inward is double, partly from despair, partly from the rage of corruptions, (as I said before) Is it not God that tyes up our corruptions? There is such a world of sin in the heart of a man, as often he finds the experience of it, when he meets with a fit temptation to his disposition, that Gods Children complain of themselves that the sins of their hearts have deceived them: so God delivers men from the rage of lusts, he tyes up their corruptions, and delivers them from them. And when we fall, and are ready to despair for them, he delivers us from despair. He doth deliver, he is perpetually delivering, it implies that we alway stand in need of deliverance.