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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 18
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.
It is Gods prerogative to know things to come: we may know them by their causes, we may know when there will be an eclipse a hundred years hence: but to know what weather there shall be, as we may know the eclipse, we cannot: because there is nothing in the cause; I say, God will have men to be men. S. Paul may promise holily, with a reservation to God, as a man, and as a holy man, and without sin too; but as an Apostle in his doctrine he was not so: but as God is true, our word to you was not yea, and nay, but constant as God himself; that shall suffice to satisfy that. Therefore S. Paul makes the difference, I promised to come, but I did not: but as God is true, our word to you was not yea, and nay.
It is Gods prerogative to know things to come: we may know them by their causes, we may know when there will be an eclipse a hundred yeares hence: but to know what weather there shall be, as we may know the eclipse, we cannot: because there is nothing in the cause; I say, God will have men to be men. S. Paul may promise holily, with a reservation to God, as a man, and as a holy man, and without sin too; but as an Apostle in his doctrine he was not so: but as God is true, our word to you was not yea, and nay, but constant as God himself; that shall suffice to satisfie that. Therefore S. Paul makes the difference, I promised to come, but I did not: but as God is true, our word to you was not yea, and nay.
Our voyage to heaven, and the reference we have to a better life stands 1not on uncertainties, as the things here in this world. Saint Paul's journey to Corinth might be frustrate; but S. Paul had another course to heaven: his religious course stood not on uncertainties: whatsoever he taught in a Religious course, it was yea; as he saith in the next Verse, Christ the Son of God whom we preach, was not yea, and nay, but yea; that is, infallibly true, perpetually true, necessarily, eternally true. As God is true, our word to you was not yea, and nay.
- 1Our journey to heaven certain.