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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 12
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What is the reason?
The reason is, That a true Christian hath a spirit in him above the world. As Saint John saith, The Spirit that is in you is stronger then he that 1is in the world. The Child of God hath a Spirit in him, a new nature, that sets him in a rank above the world. Christians are an order of men that are above the world, they are men of another world: and therefore having a principle of grace that raiseth them above the base condition of the world, they can live in the world, without the blemishes and corruptions of the world, they are men of a higher disposition.
The reason is, That a true Christian hath a spirit in him above the world. As Saint John saith, The Spirit that is in you is stronger then he that 1is in the world. The Child of God hath a Spirit in him, a new nature, that sets him in a ranck above the world. Christians are an order of men that are above the world, they are men of another world: and therefore having a principel of grace that raiseth them above the base condition of the world, they can live in the world, without the blemishes and corruptions of the world, they are men of a higher disposition.
- 1Reason. A Christian hath a spirit above the world.
Even as sickness in the body hurts not the reasonable life; so any thing that a Christian meets with in the world it hurts not his Christian life which is his best life; because it is a life of a higher respect, of a higher nature: Saint Paul's conversation was in heaven, it was above the snares here below. He was crucified to the world, he was a dead man to all that was evil in the world, and to that which was good and indifferent in the world For pleasures, for honours, for meat and drink, and such necessaries: the counsel that he gave to others, he practised it himself, for worldly callings, and refreshings, and the like,