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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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Then again, we say, there are two Sacraments, Baptism, and the Lords ⟨p. 396⟩Supper; and so say they: but they add five of their own. So I might run over all their opinions: whatsoever we hold, they hold. Therefore in their own confessions, our affirmatives have been ever since the Apostles times: if they had any Church, we had a Church, because our foundations are included in their Religion. All that we say, they say: but then again they say many things that we do not. Therefore they account us heretics, because we make not that that they hold to be our yea too.
Then again, we say, there are two Sacraments, Baptisme, and the Lords ⟨p. 396⟩Supper; and so say they: but they adde five of their own. So I might run over all their opinions: whatsoever we hold, they hold. Therefore in their own confessions, our affirmatives have been ever since the Apostles times: if they had any Church, we had a Church, because our foundations are included in their Religion. All that we say, they say: but then again they say many things that we do not. Therefore they account us hereticks, because we make not that that they hold to be our yea too.
Again, the negatives that they believe, and we do not believe, they are but novelties in experience, they are not of the ancient Apostolical faith. 1That the Apocrypha should be had in equal authority with the Word of God in Scripture, alas, such a conceit was not thought of for 600 years after the Apostles. That the people should not read the Scriptures, it was but since the other day. Transubstantiation since the Council of Lateran, a thousand years since Christ. That the Pope should be Supreme, and depose Princes, such a thing was not heard of a thousand years after Christ. That he should have authority to Canonize Saints, it was but since the other day. Equivocation, but of late time: and so their idle babbling of Divine service in Latin, and twenty other trumperies. So the things that we deny that are gross and abominable in the judgment of every man that knows any thing, they were but since the other day; they were not yea in the Apostles times: Then the Apostolical Church being not built on them, they must be devised after. As indeed a thousand years after Christ, the most of these were never heard of. The most of the points of Popery wherein they differ from us, nay not any of them were never established by a Council till the Council of Trent, except Transubstantiation by the Council of Lateran, which was a thousand years after Christ.