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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 in contraries say as Job, Though he kill me, yet will I trust in him. True faith when it is in strength will uphold a man when all fails: nay, it will hold a man when all is contrary. This our Saviour Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea, and Amen, did excellently teach us by his own example: For when all was contrary, and our blessed Saviour felt the wrath of God, which made him sweat drops of blood, and made him cry out, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? yet here faith wrestled with, My God, my God, still, even under the wrath of God. He brake through the seeming wrath of God, into the heart of God.
Therefore in contraries say as Job, Though he kill me, yet will I trust in him. True faith when it is in strength will uphold a man when all failes: nay, it will hold a man when all is contrary. This our Saviour Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea, and Amen, did excellently teach us by his own example: For when all was contrary, and our blessed Saviour felt the wrath of God, which made him sweat drops of blood, and made him cry out, My God, My God, why hast thou for saken me? yet here faith wrastled with, My God, my God, still, even under the wrath of God. He brake through the seeming wrath of God, into the heart of God.
Faith hath a piercing eye, it will strive through the clouds, though they be never so thick; through all the clouds of temptation. Christ had so piercing a faith, it brake through all; he saw a Fathers heart under an angry semblance. So a Christian triumphs by faith in oppositions to faith: when all is contrary to faith, yet notwithstanding he can say My God still. This is an evidence of a strong faith in the promises.
Faith hath a piercing eye, it will strive through the clouds, though they be never so thick; through all the clouds of temptation. Christ had so piercing a faith, it brake through all; he saw a Fathers heart under an angry semblance. So a Chistian triumphs by faith in oppositions to faith: when all is contrary to faith, yet notwithstanding he can say My God still. This is an evidence of a strong faith in the promises.