A60194:1673
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
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.
So some men they have no Religion, they have no consistence, no standing, no strength or goodness of their own, but such as their company ⟨p. 270⟩is, such they are, and they think this will serve for all. I must do as others do, it is the fashion of the world: If they be among Swearers, they will swear: if they be among those that ate unclean, they will pollute themselves, they frame themselves to all companies: they will be all, but that which they should be. This will not serve the turn.
So some men they have no Religion, they have no consistence, no standing, no strength or goodnesse of their own, but such as their company ⟨p. 270⟩is, such they are, and they think this will serve for all. I must do as others do, it is the fashion of the world: If they be among Swearers, they will swear: if they be among those that ate unclean, they will pollute themselves, they frame themselves to all companies: they will be all, but that which they should be. This will not serve the turn.
A Christian may pray for the assistance of God to keep him in the world; and he may know that God will. What ground hath he? Our Saviour Christ, Joh. 17. saith he, Father, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keep them in the world. He prays for his Apostles, and Disciples, that God would keep them in the world from the contagion of sin, and from the destruction of the world. S. Paul you see lived and conversed in the world, wheresoever he was, in sincerity, and simplicity: he was not carried away with the stream, and errors of the times wherein he lived.
A Christian may pray for the assistance of God to keep him in the world; and he may know that God will. What ground hath he? Our Saviour Christ,