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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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Nothing in the world can separate his love from his own Son, and nothing in the world can separate Gods love from us, because it is in his Son. Christ loves his mystical body as well as his natural body: and God loves the mystical body of Christ, as he loves his natural body: he hath advanced that to glory at his right hand, and will he leave his mystical body the Church? will he not advance that? Doth he not love whole Christ? Yes, God loves whole Christ. Our nature that he hath taken to him, it is the chief thing, the most lovely thing in heaven or earth, next to God: And he loves all that are in him, his mystical body. For indeed he gave us to Christ, he hath sealed and anointed him; he is anointed by God the Father for us.
Nothing in the world can separate his love from his own Son, and nothing in the world can separate Gods love from us, because it is in his Son. Christ loves his mysticall bodie as well as his natural bodie: and God loves the mysticall bodie of Christ, as he loves his naturall bodie: he hath advanced that to glorie at his right hand, and will he leave his mysticall bodie the Church? will he not advance that? Doth he not love whole Christ? Yes, God loves whole Christ. Our nature that he hath taken to him, it is the chief thing, the most lovely thing in heaven or earth, next to God: And he loves all that are in him, his mysticall body. For indeed he gave us to Christ, he hath sealed and anointed him; he is anointed by God the Father for us.
Upon what an unchangeable, eternal ground is the love of God built, and the faith of a Christian? How can the gates of hell prevail against the Faith of a Christian, when it carries him to the promises, and from the promises to the love of God, and from thence to Christ, upon whom the love of God is founded? Before the faith of a Christian can be shaken, the promises must be of no effect, they must be yea, and nay; and not yea; and if the promises be shaken, the Love of God must be uncertain, and Christ uncertain: heaven and earth must be overturned to overturn the faith of a Christian. There is nothing in the world that is so firm as a believing Christian that casts himself on the promises, that are alway yea: and to make them yea, they are founded on Christ the Son of Gods love.