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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 2
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And shame our selves; what, hath God freed me from so great misery? 1and hath he advanced me to so happy an estate in this world? doth he put me in so certain a hope of glory in the world to come? have I a certain promise to be carried to salvation? that neither things present nor things to come shall be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus? doth he renew his mercies every day upon me? and can I be thus dead, can I be thus dull-hearted? Let us shame our selves. And certainly if a man were to teach a Child of God a ground of humiliation: if a Child of God that is in the state of grace should ask how he might grow humble and be abased more and more, a man could give no one direction better then this, to consider how God hath been good continually; how he hath been patient and good, and upon what ground we hope that he will be so: and to consider the disposition of our own drooping, drowsy souls: if this will not abase a soul that hath tasted the love and mercy of God, nothing in the world will do it. There never was a Child of God of a dull temper and disposition, but he was ashamed, that being under such a covenant of favour, that he should yet not have a heart more enlarged to bless God.
And shame our selves; what, hath God freed me from so great misery? 1and hath he advanced me to so happie an estate in this world? doth he put me in so certain a hope of glorie in the world to come? have I a certain promise to be carried to salvation? that neither things present nor things to come shall be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus? doth he renew his mercies every day upon me? and can I be thus dead, can I be thus dull-hearted? Let us shame our selves. And certainly if a man were to teach a Child of God a ground of humiliation: if a Child of God that is in the state of grace should ask how he might grow humble and be abased more and more, a man could give no one direction better then this, to consider how God hath been good continually; how he hath been patient and good, and upon what ground we hope that he will be so: and to consider the disposition of our own drooping, drousie souls: if this will not abase a soul that hath tasted the love and mercie of God, nothing in the world will do it. There never was a Child of God of a dull temper and disposition, but he was ashamed, that being under such a covenant of favour, that he should yet not have a heart more enlarged to blesse God.