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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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It is a comfortable way to study Christ this way: to see him, foretold 1in the Old Testament, and to see the accomplishment in the New: to parallel the Old and New Testament; it is an excellent way of studying the Gospel. For we know men are delighted to know divers things at once, ⟨p. 410⟩when a mans knowledge is enriched diverse ways at once it delights him: as when a man knows the history of a thing and the truth with it: when he knows a promise, and the truth: a type, and the ttuth, how doth it delight! When a man sees the type in the Old, and the truth in the New: the history there, the promise, and the accomplishment here, it is a wondrous delightful thing. For why doth proportion delight the eye, but because it is an agreement of different things, a sweet harmony of different things? Why doth music so please the ear? because it is a harmony of different things. When we see a type different from the truth performed, and a promise different from the performance, and yet a sweet agreement, from agreement a man is delighted. A man is not delighted with colours at colours, but as they hold proportion with the rest of the body: he is not delighted with a limb as a limb, but as it holds proportion with the man; if there be no proportion, and comeliness, it delights not. So in this case it is good to consider both together. God therefore for this end and purpose would have truths conveyed in the Old Testament, by way of types, and prophecies, and promises, that it might delight us now to hear them, and to study them the more: (for as I said) when we know many things at once, it is delightful.
It is a comfortable way to study Christ this way: to see him, foretold 1in the Old Testament, and to see the accomplishment in the New: to parallel the Old and New Testament; it is an excellent way of studying the Gosspel. For we know men are delighted to know divers things at once, ⟨p. 410⟩when a mans knowledge is inriched diverse waies at once it delights him: as when a man knowes the history of a thing and the truth with it: when he knowes a promise, and the truth: a type, and the ttuth, how doth it delight! When a man sees the type in the Old, and the truth in the New: the history there, the promise, and the accomplishment here, it is a wondrous delightfull thing. For why doth proportion delight the eye, but because it is an agreement of different things, a sweet harmony of different things? Why doth musick so please the ear? because it is a harmonie of different things. When we see a type different from the truth performed, and a promise different from the performance, and yet a sweet agreement, from agreement a man is delighted. A man is not delighted with colours at colours, but as they hold proportion with the rest of the body: he is not delighted with a limb as a limb, but as it holds proportion with the man; if there be no proportion, and comelinesse, it delights not. So in this case it is good to consider both together. God therefore for this end and purpose would have truths conveyed in the Old Testament, by way of types, and prophecies, and promises, that it might delight us now to hear them, and to study them the more: (for as I said) when we know many things at once, it is delightful.