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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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Likewise reverence in hearing it, as Cornelius did, Act. 10. To hear it as the Word of God; To tremble at the Word of God, as it is, Isaiah 66. To tremble at it as men do at thunder. The thunder is said to be the voice of God. The voice of God shakes the Cedars of Lebanon: so it is with the voice of Gods Word: Shall the Lion roar, and the beasts of the Forrest not tremble? Shall God threaten for sins that we are obnoxious to, and shall we not tremble at his threatenings? Therefore howsoever we hear it as if it were yea, and nay, yet it is yea: therefore let us not think to go on in sin, and escape, and do well enough. No, it will not be so: he that thinks it is the Word of God, he trembles at his Word, and hath answerable affections to all the parts of Gods Word. If God direct, he follows; if God threaten, he trembles: if he promise, he believes: if he command, he obeys: he hath a pliable disposition to every passage of Divine truth, or else we do not believe it.
Likewise reverence in hearing it, as Cornelius did, Act. 10. To hear it as the Word of God; To tremble at the Word of God, as it is, Esay 66. To tremble at it as men do at thunder. The thunder is said to be the voice of God. The voice of God shakes the Cedars of Lebanon: so it is with the voice of Gods Word: Shall the Lion roar, and the beasts of the Forrest not tremble? Shall God threaten for sins that we are obnoxious to, and shall we not tremble at his threatenings? Therefore howsoever we hear it as if it were yea, and nay, yet it is yea: therefore let us not think to go on in sin, and escape, and do well enough. No, it will not be so: he that thinks it is the Word of God, he trembles at his VVord, and hath answerable affections to all the parts of Gods VVord. If God direct, he followes; if God threaten, he trembles: if he promise, he believes: if he command, he obeyes: he hath a pliable disposition to every passage of Divine truth, or else we do not believe it.
What shall we say then of those that come not so far as the Heathen man did? We know Felix when he heard of justice, and temperance, and judgment to come, he trembled. When he heard of things that he was loath to hear, that he should be called to a reckoning for the course of his life, he trembled and quaked. If we hear these things, and live in a course perhaps worse then he, and do not tremble, where is our faith, that the Word of God is yea, that it is undoubtedly true?