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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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There must be a new world, a new heaven, and a new earth; but this and all the excellencies in it, as they were raised out of nothing, so they shall come to nothing: God he is, I am that I am, saith he: and Christ he is yesterday, to day, to morrow, and the same for ever. A man cannot say of any creature in the world, that it was yesterday, and shall be to morrow, and for ever. We may say it of Christ, he is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, he was, and is, and is to come: and therefore those that are founded upon him, that have their happiness in him, they are firm as he is firm: and those that build upon any other thing, they vanish as the thing vanisheth. There is nothing in the world hath such a Being, but it is subject in time not to be: it is only a Christian that is in Christ, who is as firm as Christ is; and Christ can never be but that which he is; for of necessity God must be always like himself, he is Jehovah, I am, I am at all times; and Christ he is Jehovah: A Christian therefore, and none but a Christian hath a firm stablishing in Christ. Without this stablishing in Christ what are we? what are wicked men? Chaff, that the wind blows away; they are grass, &c. things of nothing carried away with every blast: but a Christian is a stone, a rock, built upon Christ Jesus.
There must be a new world, a new heaven, and a new earth; but this and all the excellencies in it, as they were raised out of nothing, so they shall come to nothing: God he is, I am that I am, saith he: and Christ he is yesterday, to day, to morrow, and the same for ever. A man cannot say of any creature in the world, that it was yesterday, and shall be to morrow, and for ever. We may say it of Christ, he is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, he was, and is, and is to come: and therefore those that are founded upon him, that have their happinesse in him, they are firm as he is firm: and those that build upon any other thing, they vanish as the thing vanisheth. There is nothing in the world hath such a Being, but it is subject in time not to be: it is onely a Christian that is in Christ, who is as firm as Christ is; and Christ can never be but that which he is; for of necessity God must be alwayes like himself, he is Jehovah, I am, I am at all times; and Christ he is Jehovah: A Christian therefore, and none but a Christian hath a firm stablishing in Christ. Without this stablishing in Christ what are we? what are wicked men? Chaffe, that the wind blowes away; they are grasse, &c. things of nothing carried away with every blast: but a Christian is a stone, a rock, built upon Christ Jesus.