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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 20
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.
The truths we are to deliver out of the words are these:
First of all we must know, That since the fall of man, it hath pleased the Divine Nature, the three Persons in Trinity, to stablish a Covenant of 1grace, and so of salvation in Jesus Christ; and to make him a second principle, a second Adam, by whom mankind is restored to a better estate then ever we had in the first Adam. God now since the fall takes another course to bring us back again to him. He doth not leave us as he left the Angels that fell, in a state of perdition for ever: but as we fell by infidelity and distrust of him, so now we are recovered again by Promises, and by faith in them.
First of all we must know, That since the fall of man, it hath pleased the Divine Nature, the three Persons in Trinitie, to stablish a Covenant of 1grace, and so of salvation in Jesus Christ; and to make him a second principle, a second Adam, by whom mankind is restored to a better estate then ever we had in the first Adam. God now since the fall takes another course to bring us back again to him. He doth not leave us as he left the Angels that fell, in a state of perdition for ever: but as we fell by infidelity and distrust of him, so now we are recovered again by Promises, and by faith in them.
- 1God since the Fall hath made a Covenant of Grace.
There can be no intercourse between God and man, but by some promise on his part. God deals with man by Promises.