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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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Now God having fitted the new creature to serve him, and to go through all the impediments in this world, and all the crosses, where he hath begun this work, it will labour to come to perfection. As in the natural body we are not content to live; but when we have life, we desire health: and when we have health, we are not content with that, but we desire strength; not only health, but strength to perform that we should do. So where the spiritual life is begun, the living soul is not content to live, to find an Earnest, a little beginnings; but if he have that, he would have health, he would not have any spiritual disease to lye on the soul, that might hinder it in the functions of it: and together with health, it desires fuller and fully strength, because it hath many temptations to encounter with, many corruptions to resist, many actions to do, many afflictions perhaps to bear, all which require a great deal of strength: wheresoever grace is in truth, it is always with a desire of growth, and answerable to that desire will be the use of all the means of growth.
Now God having fitted the new creature to serve him, and to go through all the impediments in this world, and all the crosses, where he hath begun this work, it will labour to come to perfection. As in the natural body we are not content to live; but when we have life, we desire health: and when we have health, we are not content with that, but we desire strength; not onely health, but strength to perform that we should do. So where the spiritual life is begun, the living soul is not content to live, to find an Earnest, a little beginnings; but if he have that, he would have health, he would not have any spiritual disease to lye on the soul, that might hinder it in the functions of it: and together with health, it desires fuller and fully strength, because it hath many temptations to encounter with, many corruptions to resist, many actions to do, many afflictions perhaps to bear, all which require a great deal of strength: wheresoever grace is in truth, it is alwayes with a desire of growth, and answerable to that desire will be the use of all the means of growth.
Again, to name one or two more, and so end: Wheresoever the Spirit is