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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.
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.
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 satisfie ⟨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 satisfie 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.
It is a rule, The first in any kind is the cause of all the rest. Now Christ