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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
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The Papists cavil with us, and say, we profess a negative Religion: Ye 1cut off our opinions, say they, but what have you of your own? what affirmatives have ye?
The Papists cavil with us, and say, we professe a negative Religion: Ye 1cut off our opinions, say they, but what have you of your own? what affirmatives have ye?
- 1Object.
It is most certain, that all our affirmatives have been ever since the 1Apostles time: for we and the Papists differ not in affirmatives, only they add patcheries of their own. Religion stands most in affirmatives, that is the ground first: For we believe negatives, because they agree not to affirmatives: we believe a lie to be a lie, because it is contrary to positive truth; and the truth is before a lie; the affirmation is before the negation: a thing is, before the contrary is not. This laying for a ground, affirmatives being truths; our positive truths that we hold have been held in the Apostles times before, and since: even in the Church of Rome a thousand years after; and even now the affirmatives that we hold.
It is most certain, that all our affirmatives have been ever since the 1Apostles time: for we and the Papists differ not in affirmatives, onely they adde patcheries of their own. Religion stands most in affirmatives, that is the ground first: For we believe negatives, because they agree not to affirmatives: we believe a lie to be a lie, because it is contrary to positive truth; and the truth is before a lie; the affirmation is before the negation: a thing is, before the contrary is not. This laying for a ground, affirmatives being truths; our positive truths that we hold have been held in the Apostles times before, and since: even in the Church of Rome a thousand years after; and even now the affirmatives that we hold.