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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
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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 ⟨p. 349⟩and speeches, and desires, and season your course of life, that what you think may be in the relish and strength of the Word, in the strength of some Divine truth, and the guide of your actions may be Divine truth, or some motives from it. Then you will give thanks for what is wrought on you, when it is an engrafted Word in your souls, and all relish of it, your speeches, and actions, and your whole course: when a man may know by your carriage that there is something invested, and engrafted in your souls, that gives a blessed relish to all the expressions of the outward man. Such a one indeed will account the Word a special grace by a sweet experience wrought in his heart. I will not press that Point any further.
Never, unlesse 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 suppresse, 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 thankfull for it, because you find your hearts wrought to holy obedience by it. Give it way in your soules, that it may be an ingraffed Word, that all the inward and outward man may be seasoned with it, and relish of it: that the Word may season your thoughts