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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.
Ask another, What do you mean to live so loosely, and carelessly? why will you stand thus? will you be content to die so? perhaps he doth not know sound doctrine; or if he do, it is confusedly, he doth not build on that rock, on that foundation.
Ask another, What do you mean to live so loosely, and carelesly? why will you stand thus? will you be content to die so? perhaps he doth not know sound doctrine; or if he do, it is confusedly, he doth not build on that rock, on that foundation.
O let us labour to build stronger and stronger on the truth. Our building strongly makes us eternal: Gods truth is eternal truth, because it makes us eternal. Is it not a strange thing that man, that is chaff, and vanity, and smoke, whose life passeth as a tale that is told, that yet notwithstanding if he build on this yea, which is certain and infallible, the doctrine of the Gospel it will make him a rock, a living stone, it will make him eternal? All flesh is grass, but the Word of God endures for ever.
O let us labour to build stronger and stronger on the truth. Our building strongly makes us eternal: Gods truth is eternal truth, because it makes us eternal. Is it not a strange thing that man, that is chaffe, and vanity, and smoak, whose life passeth as a tale that is told, that yet notwithstanding if he build on this yea, which is certain and infallible, the doctrine of the Gospel it will make him a rock, a living stone, it will make him eternal? All flesh is grasse, but the Word of God endures for ever.