A60194:1763
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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And if any man shall but consider and read Stephen Gardiner's letters (a man of a devilish jealousy,) to see out of his wit he projected what hurt would come by suffering the Gospel to remain, it will seem strange. Alas poor man, the Common-Wealths beyond the Seas, and our own Nation never prospered better then by entertaining the Gospel: yet this devilish witted man, whose wit was set, and sharpened by the Devil, was in fear and jealousy of the Gospel. And God usually punisheth it this way, that those subtle heads that are jealous of those that mean them no harm, but all the good that may be, usually, they are over-credulous in another kind; they trust those that deceive their trust: they trust those that the weakest, the very dregs of the people will not trust: they trust those that are notoriously false. God strikes their brains, and besots them, that they trust men ⟨p. 284⟩that all the world know to be underminers: notwithstanding where they should trust, and cast themselves into the bosom of their true-hearted friends, there they are all full of fear and jealousy. But this caution by the way.
And if any man shall but consider and read Stephen Gardiner's letters (a man of a divellish jealousie,) to see out of his wit he projected what hurt would come by suffering the Gospel to remain, it will seem strange. Alas poor man, the Common-Wealths beyond the Seas, and our own Nation never prospered better then by entertaining the Gospel: yet this devillish witted man, whose wit was set, and sharpned by the Devil, was in fear and jealousie of the Gospel. And God usually punisheth it this way, that those subtile heads that are jealous of those that mean them no harm, but all the good that may be, usually, they are over-credulous in another kind; they trust those that deceive their trust: they trust those that the weakest, the very dreggs of the people will not trust: they trust those that are notoriously false. God strikes their brains, and besots them, that they trust men ⟨p. 284⟩that all the world know to be underminers: notwithstanding where they should trust, and cast themselves into the bosome of their true-hearted friends, there they are all full of fear and jealousie. But this caution by the way.