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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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Therefore the Church and people of God should comfort themselves for the time to come, in the destruction of the implacable malicious enemies of the Church, that glory in the flesh, that set up an outward Religion that is opposite to the power of Christ, that the time shall come that all shall be done to them, and that all other promises shall be finished: for as in the first coming of Christ all was finished for the working of our salvation, so in his second coming there will be a time when it will be said, all is finished for the accomplishment of that which was done in his first coming. Therefore let us stablish our souls in the expectation of the blessed promises, for All the promises in Christ are Yea and Amen, and shall be for ever.
Therefore the Church and people of God should comfort themselves for the time to come, in the destruction of the implacable malicious enemies of the Church, that glory in the flesh, that set up an outward Religion that is opposite to the power of Christ, that the time shall come that all shall be done to them, and that all other promises shall be finished: for as in the first coming of Christ all was finished for the working of our salvation, so in his second coming there will be a time when it will be said, all is finished for the accomplishment of that which was done in his first coming. Therefore let us stablish our soules in the expectation of the blessed promises, for All the promises in Christ are Yea and Amen, and shall be for ever.
All the promises are infallibly true as God and as Christ himself is true, Christ shall as soon fail, and God shall as soon fail, as any promise that we have made us in the Gospel, if we apprehend it in Christ, and believe it in Christ.
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