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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A Christian, whatsoever the comfort be, if it be outward, he knows that 1the God of comfort sends it, and that is the reason he is so thankful for all outward comforts: if they be the necessaries for this life: in meat he tastes the comfort of God, in drink he tastes the comfort of God, in the ornaments of this life, he tastes the comfort of God; It is God that heats him with fire, it is God that clothes him with garments, it is God that feeds him with meat, it is God that refresheth his senses in these comforts.
A Christian, whatsoever the comfort be, if it be outward, he knowes that 1the God of comfort sends it, and that is the reason he is so thankful for all outward comforts: if they be the necessaries for this life: in meat he tasts the comfort of God, in drink he tasts the comfort of God, in the ornaments of this life, he tasts the comfort of God; It is God that heates him with fire, it is God that cloaths him with garments, it is God that feeds him with meat, it is God that refresheth his senses in these comforts.
- 1Ground of thankfulness in Christians.Ground of thankfulnesse in Christians.
Therefore the Heathen out of their Ignorance, they made every thing a God, that was comfortable, out of which they received comfort; they made a God of the fire, and of the water: these are but instruments of the God of comfort, but the Heathen made gods of them. A Christian doth not so, but he sees God in them, and drives these streams from the fountain, God is seen to be the God of Comfort in them all.
Therefore the Heathen out of their Ignorance, they made every thing a God, that was comfortable, out of which they received comfort; they made a God of the fire, and of the water: these are but instruments of the God of comfort, but the Heathen made gods of them. A Christian doth not so, but he sees God in them, and drives these streames from the fountain, God is seen to be the God of Comfort in them all.