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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 19
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.
First, Christ Jesus is the main object of Preaching.1
- 1Doctr. 1. Chrise the main object of preaching.
It were impertinent here to stand on particulars, to show you how Christ is the Son of God: for he is brought in here as the object of preaching. Only in a word, we must of necessity believe that Christ Jesus is the Son of God. For how wondrously doth this stablish our faith when we believe in a Saviour that is God: the Son of God Jesus Christ by eternal Generation? In a word, here are these prerogatives of Christs Generation from all other 1sons whatsoever. Other fathers are before their sons, this Son of God was eternal with his Father. Other fathers have a distinct essence from their sons, the father is one, and the son another; they have distinct existences: but here there is one common essence to the Father and the Son. Other fathers beget a son without them, but this Father begets his Son within him; it was an inward work. So it is a mystical Divine Generation, which indeed is a subject of admiration▪ rather then of explication, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Son of man. This was typified in the Ark, the Ark was a type of Christ• the A• had wood, and gold that covered that wood. Christs humane nature was the wood, and his Divine nature that contained it, that is the gold. But I should be too large, & besides the scope of the Text, if I should unfold this Point; I only touch it by the way. Christ Jesus in his natures as he is God & Man, and in his offices as Jesus Christ, that is, anointed as King, Priest, and Prophet, and in his estates of abasement, and advancement, is the main subject matter of preaching. For what can we say, but it must be reductive, and brought to Christ? If we open mens consciences by the Law, and tell them what a terrible estate they are in, what