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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 22
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There are two things in a prayer of a Christian that are incompatible to any carnal man: there is an inward kind of familiar boldness in the soul, whereby a Christian goes to God, as a child when he wants any thing goes to his father; a child considers not his own worthiness or meanness, but goeth to his father familiarly and boldly: so (I say) when the Spirit of God speaks to us from God, and tells the soul, I am thine, I am thy salvation, thy sins are forgiven thee, be of good comfort; and when the soul again speaks to God, when it can pour forth it self with a kind of familiar boldness and earnestness, especially in extremity, and in time of trouble, and can wait in prayer, and depend upon God this spiritual speech of God to the soul, and of the soul to God, it is a seal of the Spirit that indeed we are true believers, because we can do that that none can do but Christians: God speaks to our souls, he raiseth our souls, and by his Spirit he puts a spirit of supplication into us, and helps our infirmities: for we know not what to ask, but he helps our weakness, and enables us to lay out the wants of our souls to God: these are evidences of the presence, and of the seal of the Spirit.
There are two things in a prayer of a Christian that are incompatible to any carnal man: there is an inward kind of familiar boldnesse in the soul, whereby a Christian goes to God, as a child when he wants any thing goes to his father; a child considers not his own worthinesse or meannesse, but goeth to his father familiarly and boldly: so (I say) when the Spirit of God speaks to us from God, and tells the soul, I am thine, I am thy salvation, thy sins are forgiven thee, be of good comfort; and when the soul again speaks to God, when it can pour forth it self with a kind of familiar boldnesse and earnestnesse, especially in extremity, and in time of trouble, and can wait in prayer, and depend upon God this spiritual speech of God to the soul, and of the soul to God, it is a seal of the Spirit that indeed we are true believers, because we can doe that that none can do but Christians: God speaks to our souls, he raiseth our souls, and by his Spirit he puts a spirit of supplication into us, and helps our infirmities: for we know not what to ask, but he helps our weaknesse, and enables us to lay out the wants of our soules to God: these are evidences of the presence, and of the seal of the Spirit.