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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
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Faith and hope are two graces altogether from Promises: if there were no promise, there could be no faith nor hope: what is hope? nothing but the expectation of the things that the Word saith. And what is faith but a building on the Word of God. Faith looks on the Word that God will give such a thing, and hope looks upon the thing that the Word promiseth: as the distinction is good, faith looks to the Word of the thing, and hope looks to the thing in the Word: faith looks to the Word promising; hope looks to the performance of the thing promised. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, because it sets the things that are absent as if they were present; hope is for the accomplishment of that. If there were no promise to hope, what needed hope? and where were a foundation for faith? Now God being willing to exercise faith and hope, feeds them both, and satisfies both, that we may be heavenly wise in trusting and believing, and not 1foolish as men in the world: Therefore God hath given us promises, and sealed them with an oath, as we shall see afterward.
- 1Observ. 2. All Promises in Christ.
Now all promises coming from love, what love can there be in God to us since the fall, but it must be grounded on a better foundation then our selves? If God love us, it must be in one that is first beloved: hereupon comes the ground of the Promises to be Jesus Christ, God-man: For all intercourse between God and us, it must be in him that is able to satisfy ⟨p. 404⟩God. God will so in the Covenant of Grace entertain covenant and league with us, as that he will have his Justice have full content, he will be satisfied; and therefore he that will be the foundation of intercourse between God and us, he must be God-man, perfectly able to satisfy Divine Justice; he must be a friend of Gods, and a friend to us; hereupon the Promises must come from Gods love in Jesus Christ: and he must first receive all good for us, and we must have it at the second hand from him. Hereupon it is said here, that All the Promises of God in him are Yea, and Amen.