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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.
How shall we esteem it as a grace?
Receive it thankfully, as a largess, and bounty, and free grace of God: receive it as a bounty with thankful hearts: Grace begets grace, it begets thankfulness: so to receive it as a grace, is to receive it with thankful minds, to be more thankful for the means of salvation, then for any outward thing.
Receive it thankfully, as a largesse, and bounty, and free grace of God: receive it as a bounty with thankful hearts: Grace begets grace, it begets thankfulnesse: so to receive it as a grace, is to receive it with thankful minds, to be more thankfull for the means of salvation, then for any outward thing.
How shall we come to be thankful?1
- 1How to come to be thankful.
Never, unless we find some grace wrought by the Word of Grace. Therefore to receive it as a grace, is to receive it as a free, loving gift of God, and to yield to it: when by it holy motions are stirred in our hearts, not to suppress, and quench holy motions, but to yield to them. Not to quench and resist the Spirit, but to yield our selves pliable to the Word. This is to acknowledge it a grace; to be thankful for it, because you find your hearts wrought to holy obedience by it. Give it way in your souls, that it may be an engrafted Word, that all the inward and outward man may be seasoned with it, and relish of it: that the Word may season your thoughts