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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
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Well then, we see the foundation of the Church, and of every particular Christian (Christ Jesus;) whence comes the stability and firmness of the Church, that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it? It is built upon the rock, upon Christ. So all the stablishing that a Christian hath, it is from this rock, his being built upon Jesus Christ: If we were built upon man, we could not stand: if we were built upon Angels, we could not ⟨p. 445⟩stand: if we were built upon any thing in the world we could not stand; but being built upon Jesus Christ, (who is all in all to a soul that is stablished in him) there must needs be an everlasting stablishing.
Well then, we see the foundation of the Church, and of every particular Christian (Christ Jesus;) whence comes the stability and firmnesse of the Church, that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it? It is built upon the rock, upon Christ. So all the stablishing that a Christian hath, it is from this rock, his being built upon Jesus Christ: If we were built upon man, we could not stand: if we were built upon Angels, we could not ⟨p. 445⟩stand: if we were built upon any thing in the world we could not stand; but being built upon Jesus Christ, (who is all in all to a soul that is stablished in him) there must needs be an everlasting stablishing.
It is a fond Objection of some, and unlearned, against the principles of 1Divine truth, that we may fall as well as Adam in Paradise, as well as the Angels in heaven: As if there were not a wide and broad difference between the state of grace, and the state of nature. A Christian hath more strength then the Angels in heaven, or then Adam in Paradise ever had: he hath a more firm consistence, because he stands by grace; By grace we stand, as the Apostle saith. A Christian hath promises of perseverance, Adam and the Angels had none: and therefore to fetch a reason of falling away from grace, from the proportion we have to that condition, is a mere Sophism, not rightly discerning the disparity. It is not alike with the Angels and Adam, and us, for we stand by grace, out of our selves, being stablished in another.