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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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God promised to the Jews that they should come out of Babylon, he promised that he would deliver them from the enemy; and he usually prefixeth this promise. A Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and to us a Child is borne, and a son is given: to signify that therefore they should have ⟨p. 411⟩deliverance, because God would give them a better thing then that; he would give them Christ in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen: and because Christ should come of that people they should not miscarry in captivity under their enemies; for then how should Christ come of them?
God promised to the Jewes that they should come out of Babylon, he promised that he would deliver them from the enemy; and he usually prefixeth this promise. A Virgin shall conceive and beare a son, and to us a Child is borne, and a son is given: to signifie that therefore they should have ⟨p. 411⟩deliverance, because God would give them a better thing then that; he would give them Christ in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen: and because Christ should come of that people they should not miscarrie in captivity under their enemies; for then how should Christ come of them?
Therefore because a Virgin should conceive, and because a Child shall be born, and a Son given, therefore you shall have outward deliverance. All other things are Yea, and Amen for Christ, as St. Paul divinely reasons Rom. 8. If he spared not his only begotten Son, but gave him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things else? All other promises are made in Christ, and performed for him. And since the grand promise it self is now Amen, that Christ is come, it is a pledge of all other things that are to come. Is Christ come in the flesh according to the promise? hath he done all, and suffered all according to the prophecies, as it was written of him? Then why shall we not look for the accomplishment of all that are to come, on the same ground? have we not a pledge? Why shall we not look for the resurrection of the body, for the day of judgement, for the second coming of Christ? is not his first coming a pledge of it?