A60194:1751
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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So, it hinders from suffering when God calls to it: it forecasts; if you be Religious, you must suffer, it will bring your good name in question, it 1will bring your life in question, it will hazard your estate: Whereas indeed all the world is not worth the truth of God, and a man loves not his life that will not hate it in such a case; if it come to case of confession, and standing for the truth in a good quarrel.
- 1It hinders from suffering.
But here fleshly wisdom objects this and that danger: as we see in Spira and others. And thus man yielding to fleshly wisdom, he grows desperate at length.
But here fleshly wisdome objects this and that danger: as we see in Spira and others. And thus man yielding to fleshly wisdome, he growes desperate at length.
There are two men in a man (as it were) there is the flesh and the spirit. The flesh saith as Job's Wife said, Curse God and die, or Bless God and die, read it whether you will: there is the murmuring part in the cross, that bids us curse God: and as Peter said unto Christ, Oh save your selves, this shall not befall you: pity your self, have regard of your self. The flesh when we are to suffer saith as Eve to Adam, as Job's wife to him, or as Peter to Christ, Oh spare your self, be wise, be wise: And to colour the matter the more, there must be a pretence of wisdom: when as it is the greatest folly in the world to redeem any earthly commodity, even life it self, with the cracking of conscience, with the breach of that peace which passeth understanding, and perhaps with the loss of our souls. It is the greatest folly in the world: it is to be penny wise, and pound foolish. So we see whensoever we are about to suffer, carnal wisdom hinders us. As it hinders us from good, and in good, and hinders us from reforming evil; and in suffering when we are called to it: