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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.
Is God so constant to his Children in his love, and in his fatherly care & providence, that whom he hath delivered he doth deliver and will deliver, let us be constant in our service and love back again, let us return the echo 1back again, and say, I have served God, I do serve God, and I will serve God, because he hath loved me, he doth love me, and he will love me: he hath delivered me, he doth deliver me, and he will deliver me: as he is constant in love to me, so will I be constant in respect, in reverence and obedience to him.
- 1Use. To be constant in our service to God.
Therefore we see the Saints of God, as God loves them from everlasting to everlasting, being Jehovah: as he never alters in his nature, so not in his love to them, so they never alter in their love to him: therefore it is a clause in Scripture expressed by holy men, To whom be praise for ever; as they knew that he was their God for ever and for ever, so they purposed to be his people and to praise him for ever and for ever. And because they cannot live here alway themselves, they desire that there may be a Generation to praise him for ever and for ever, and they lay a plot and ground ⟨p. 187⟩so much as they can, that Gods Name may be known, that Religion may be propagated for ever: They know God is their God for ever, they know he is constant in love to them, and they are constant in their love to him, and for his glory: To whom be glory for ever.
See here the happiness of a true Christian that is in Covenant with God; he can say, I have had my happiness, and my portion, I have it, and I