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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
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When God hath provided mercy, and provided promises to help us with experience, let us not betray all through unbelief, through base despair in the time of trouble. If we had but only Gods promise that he will be our God, that he will forgive our sins, were not that enough? Is it not the promise of God, of Jehovah, that is truth it self? but when he hath sweetened his promise by experience, and every experience is a pledge and an earnest of a benefit to come, what a good God have we, that is content, not only to reserve the joys of heaven for us, but to give us a taste, to give us the assurance and earnest of the time to come, and besides his promise to give us comfortable experience, and all to support our weak faith?
When God hath provided mercy, and provided promises to help us with experience, let us not betray all through unbelief, through base despair in the time of trouble. If we had but onely Gods promise that he will be our God, that he will forgive our sins, were not that enough? Is it not the promise of God, of Jehovah, that is truth it self? but when he hath sweetned his promise by experience, and every experience is a pledge and an earnest of a benefit to come, what a good God have we, that is content, not onely to reserve the joyes of heaven for us, but to give us a taste, to give us the assurance and earnest of the time to come, and besides his promise to give us comfortable experience, and all to support our weak faith?
But remember withal, that this belongs only to Gods Children, and in a good cause: for wicked men to reason thus, He hath, and therefore he will, 1it is a dangerous argument, they must not trust former experience. We must hope that God will continue as he hath been, upon this ground that we are his; Or else the ground of the ruin of wicked men is presumption that God will bear with them as he hath done. The King of Sodom, and his People were rescued out of trouble by Abraham, and the army that he raised: yet they were pitifully consumed not long after by fire from Heaven. Pharaoh was delivered by Moses prayer, God delivered him from ten plagues, they made not a good use of it, and they perished after miserably in the Red-sea. Rabshakeh comes and tells of the former prosperity