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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 2
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Sometimes God removes the outward grievance more fully, God helps many times altogether, as in sickness to health perfectly, but I speak not of that: Comfort is that which is opposite to misery, and it must be stronger, for there is no prevailing but by a stronger, when the Agent is not above the Patient, there is no prevailing, there is a conflict till one have got the mastery. The God of (all) comfort.
Sometimes God removes the outward grievance more fully, God helps many times altogether, as in sickness to health perfectly, but I speake not of that: Comfort is that which is opposite to miserie, and it must be stronger, for there is no prevailing but by a stronger, when the Agent is not above the Patient, there is no prevailing, there is a conflict till one have got the masterie. The God of (all) comfort.
(All) that is, of all comfortable things, and of all divine reasons; it must be most substantial comfort. The soul in some maladies will not be comforted by Philosophical reasons, saith the Heathen, the disease is 1stronger then the Physic, when he considers Plato's comforts and the like, so we may say of the reasons of Philosophical men, Romanists and Moralists, when they come to terror of conscience, when they come to inward grievances, inward stings that are in a man, from a mans conscience (as all discomforts usually, when they press hard, it is with a guilty conscience) what can all such reasons do? to say it is the state of other men, and it is in vain to murmur, and I know not what, such reasons as Seneca and Plato, and others have it, will scarce still the conscience for a fit: They are ignorant of the root: alas! how can they tell the remedy, when they know not the ground of the malady.
(All) that is, of all comfortable things, and of all divine reasons; it must be most substantiall comfort. The soule in some maladies will not be comforted by Philosophicall reasons, saith the Heathen, the disease is 1