A60194:1061
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 was danger, there is danger, and there will come danger: there was a God, there is a God, and there will be a God, Jehovah, I am. If there be a flux, a perpetual succession of ill, there is a perpetual being, and living of the living Jehovah. So Christ is proved to be Jehovah, because he calls himself Revelations 1. he that was, and is, and is to come, Jehovah, alway like himself.
Now if God be Jehovah, alway like himself, then if he have delivered, if he doth deliver, he will deliver, he is I am in himself.
Now as his Name is, so is his nature and properties, he is I am in his love to his Church, he is alway in the present tense: Whom he loves, he loves ⟨p. 179⟩1to the end: he is unchangeable. I the Lord your God change not, therefore you are not consumed, Mal. 3. The reason why notwithstanding our many provocations of him, that we are not consumed, it is because his love to us is unchangeable: though we are up and down, He cannot deny himself; and there is the foundation of our comfort, that though we change oft, yet he never changeth. There is no outward thing can change him, for then that were God, and not he; there is no inward thing can change him, for then he were not perfectly wise; so there is nothing either in himself or in the creatures that can change God, he is alway like himself: therefore this is a ground of confidence for the time to come.
- 12. His properties.