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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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Again, it is God only that must stablish the soul, all the parts of it, both judgment and conscience: For (I beseech you) what can any humane creature, what can any thing under God work upon the soul? I mean so firmly as to stablish it: and therefore our controversy with the Papists is just and good.
Again, it is God onely that must stablish the soul, all the parts of it, both judgment and conscience: For (I beseech you) what can any humane creature, what can any thing under God work upon the soul? I mean so firmly as to stablish it: and therefore our controversie with the Papists is just and good.
We say, The reason and ground of our believing the Word of God, to be 1the Word of God, must not be the testimony of the Church, and the authority thereof: for alas, what can the judgment of man, what can the judgment of the Church do? It may incline and move the will by inducing arguments, and so cause a humane consent: but to establish the soul and conscience, and ⟨p. 447⟩to assure me that the Word of God (which is the ground of my faith) is the Word of God, it must be God by his Spirit that must do it; the testimony of the Church will never do it. The same Spirit that inspired holy men to write the Word of God, works in us a belief, that the Word of God is the Word of God: The stablishing argument must be by the power of Gods Spirit. God (joining with the soul and spirit of a man whom he intends to convert, besides that inbred light that is in the soul) causeth him to see a Divine Majesty shining forth in the Scriptures: so that there must be an infused establishing by the Spirit, to settle the heart in this first principle, (and indeed in all other Divine principles) that the Scriptures are the Word of God.
We say, The reason and ground of our believing the Word of God, to be 1