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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.
As all the Promises are made to us in Christ in regard of the execution, so God he brings us to Christ; all is conferred to us in Christ: as the Promises are made, so they are executed. God stablisheth us in Christ, he draws us to Christ. None come to me, but God the Father draws. Therefore God doth reveal Christ to us in our conversion, and our stablishing is in him. Therefore our salvation is so certain, because it is laid upon one that is so certain in himself, Christ Jesus.
As all the Promises are made to us in Christ in regard of the execution, so God he brings us to Christ; all is conferred to us in Christ: as the Promises are made, so they are executed. God stablisheth us in Christ, he drawes us to Christ. None come to me, but God the Father drawes. Therefore God doth reveal Christ to us in our conversion, and our stablishing is in him. Therefore our salvation is so certain, because it is laid upon one that is so certain in himself, Christ Jesus.
And happy it is, that we are stablished in him that loves us so well, that is both a low high Priest, that will pity us; and a great high Priest, equal with God, able to do all things to God for us, and between God and us. Adam (we know) had his strength in his own keeping, and being left to himself, we see what became of him. The Angels had their strength in their own keeping, and we know how soon they fell: But since the fall, we are founded and bottomed upon a surer foundation; now we stand not by our own strength, but we are established in Jesus Christ: we are surer then the Angels were before they fell, surer then Adam was in Paradise: for now we are established in Christ the Mediator, God and man: and because we could not keep our stability in our selves, we are stablished in him that ⟨p. 444⟩wrought it for us, and that possesseth it for us in heaven, and that keeps it for us: and as it is laid up and kept for us, so we are kept for it; You are kept by the power of God to salvation, 1 Pet. 1. And therefore as there be many differences which advance the state of grace above the state of nature; so this is one, that our state in grace is more stable and firm, as being stablished upon a better ground, even upon Jesus Christ the second Adam. God never mends, but he mends for the better: and he never restores, but he restores for the better: the new heaven and the new earth shall be better then the first, so the new creature, the new Adam is more glorious then the first: and as that which we recover in Christ is more and better then that we lost in Adam, so the certainty and security of our estate in grace, is far beyond the other, this being stablished in Christ.