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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
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It is in doubtful things a calling of God to be a witness of the truth we speak, and to be a revenger if we speak not true. It is to call God to witness, and to judge, to makes him testis, & vindex. S. Paul here calls God to witness, God is true, and as verily as he is true, our Word to you was not yea, and nay.
It is in doubtful things a calling of God to be a witnesse of the truth we speak, and to be a revenger if we speak not true. It is to call God to witnesse, and to judge, to makes him testis, & vindex. S. Paul here calls God to witnesse, God is true, and as verily as he is true, our Word to you was not yea, and nay.
You know oaths are either as we say, assertory, to aver a thing: Or promissory, for the time to come to do this or that: and they are either imposed, 1or voluntary. Now this is an assertory oath, not a promissory: he avers, and avoucheth peremptorily, that as God is true, his Word to them was not yea, and nay, but yea. And it was a voluntary oath: for no body exacted it of him; but he saw there was a necessity to stablish them in the certainty of the doctrine he taught, to seal it with an oath, that they should as well doubt of the truth of God, as of his doctrine; As God is true, my word is true.
You know oathes are either as we say, assertory, to aver a thing: Or promissorie, for the time to come to do this or that: and they are either imposed, 1or voluntary. Now this is an assertorie oath, not a promissorie: he avers, and avoucheth peremptorily, that as God is true, his Word to them was not yea, and nay, but yea. And it was a voluntary oath: for no body exacted it of him; but he saw there was a necessity to stablish them in the certainty of the doctrine he taught, to seal it with an oath, that they should as well doubt of the truth of God, as of his doctrine; As God is true, my word is true.