A60194:2855
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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And pray to God oft (as David did, Psal. 86.) to knit our hearts to fear 1his Name: Lord, my heart is loose and ready to fall off of it self, Oh knit my heart: it is unsettled, Oh settle my unsettled heart; settle my judgment and affections: this should be our meditation.
- 17. Pray to God to stablish us.
And because it is God that stablisheth, alway maintain spiritual poverty 1in the soul, that is, a perpetual dependence upon God: see the insufficiency that is in our selves, that we cannot stand out. What is the reason that God suffers great men to fall from the defence of the truth, and from the profession of it in their lives? (as we see it in the case of Peter) to show, that we stand not by our own strength: therefore we should be always in this temper of spiritual poverty, to know that as Samsons strength was in his Hair, so our strength is in God. God is my strength, of my self I have no strength. And therefore upon every new defence of the truth, when we are called to it, we should lift up ejaculations, and dart up strong desires to God, that God would strengthen and stablish our souls, that we may not be traitors to the truth, but that we may stand to it; for in his own strength shall no man be established
And because it is God that stablisheth, alway maintain spiritual poverty 1in the soul, that is, a perpetual dependance upon God: see the insufficiency that is in our selves, that we cannot stand out. What is the reason that God suffers great men to fall from the defence of the truth, and from the profession of it in their lives? (as we see it in the case of Peter) to shew, that we stand not by our own strength: therefore we should be alwayes in this temper of spiritual poverty, to know that as Samsons strength was in his Hair, so our strength is in God. God is my strength, of my self I have no strength. And therefore upon every new defence of the truth, when we are called to it, we should lift up ejaculations, and dart up strong desires to God, that God would strengthen and stablish our souls, that we may not be traytors to the truth, but that we may stand to it; for in his owne strength shall no man be established