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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 15
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.
I come now to S. Paul's end: His intention and purpose was to come. The end of his coming was to bestow a grace on them by his presence. In general Observe here, That Holy men are fell on work from holy moving causes, and holy aims.1
I come now to S. Paul's end: His intention and purpose was to come. The end of his coming was to bestow a grace on them by his presence. In general Observe here, That Holy men are fel on work from holy moving causes, and holy aimes.1
- 1Observ. Holy men work from holy ends.
Holy aims are the winds that carry them to their business, and they are the water that drive their Mill. I come with a holy confidence that you will be my joy: here is my moving cause. What is my aim in coming? It is this, to bestow a grace on you. Holy men have holy aims for holy actions; they have holy grounds, and holy moving causes.
Holy aimes are the winds that carry them to their businesse, and they are the water that drive their Mill. I come with a holy confidence that you will be my joy: here is my moving cause. What is my aime in coming? It is this, to bestow a grace on you. Holy men have holy aimes for holy actions; they have holy grounds, and holy moving causes.
When two men do the same thing, yet it is not the same thing: perhaps their aims differ, their moving causes differ. Saint Paul comes here to do a good thing from a good end, from a good moving cause: In this confidence I was minded to come, to bestow a grace on you.