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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 21
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, stablishing grace is necessary, in regard of those oppositions that 1are made against us after once we be in Christ: For with what malice doth Satan pursue a Christian, when he is once taken out of his Kingdom? And the world runs a clean contrary Bias in the several examples thereof: How many scandals do there arise daily even in the very Church it self? How many things are in our natural disposition joining with them? all which will make a man fly off, and unsettle him, if he be not stablished in grace.
Again, stablishing grace is necessary, in regard of those oppositions that 1are made against us after once we be in Christ: For with what malice doth Satan pursue a Christian, when he is once taken out of his Kingdom? And the world runs a clean contrary Byas in the several examples thereof: How many scandals do there arise daily even in the very Church it self? How many things are in our natural disposition joyning with them? all which will make a man fly off, and unsettle him, if he be not stablished in grace.
- 12. In regard of oppositions.
And indeed, what is the difference between one Christian and another 1that lives in the bosom of the Church? between a temporizer, and another? The difference is but in their radication, in their stablishing: for all have the general knowledge of the truth; but here is the difference, the true Christian is radicated, and rooted in the truth; a false Christian is not, and thereupon when temptations come either from within, from conscience: or from without, from Satan, and the world; he falls away, because he is not rooted: but the other holds on, because he is established.