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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.
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.
When two men do the same thing, yet it is not the same thing: perhaps their aimes 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.
Let us look in all our actions therefore to our moving cause, and to our 1aims. And especially Ministers, their aim it should not be for the fleece, it should not be to gain respect, or any advantage to themselves, but to bestow some spiritual good thing. As the Apostle saith, Rom. 1. To bestow some good thing upon you, some grace, as he calls it. This should be their aim, not to receive good from them so much as to do them good. Ministers are fathers, they should have that tender disposition. Parents do not think of receiving much: (they look to that in the second place, that must be maintained) but specially they look to their Children's good. I come to bestow a grace on you. How this is observed, I list not to speak, therefore I leave it; and come to that which concerns us all. I was minded to come to you: