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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 23
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.
Then again, sometimes from the concurrence of probabilities, the suiting 1of circumstances that makes things somewhat probable whereupon suspicion may be fastened. Sometimes when there is a concurrence of probabilities of the likelihood of things, there suspicion is prone to rise: for suspicion is not a determining of a thing, it is but a slight kind of conceit: it is more then a fear, and less then judgment of a thing. It is more then fear: 2for he that fears, suspects not: suspicion is a degree to judgment: it doth not fully judge, for then it were not suspicion: it is more then fear; suspects not, but fears; It conceives slightly that such a thing should be done, and yet he dares not say it is done.
Then again, sometimes from the concurrence of probabilities, the suiting 1of circumstances that makes things somewhat probable whereupon suspition may be fastened. Sometimes when there is a concurrence of probabilities of the likelihood of things, there suspition is prone to rise: for suspition is not a determining of a thing, it is but a slight kind of conceit: it is more then a fear, and lesse then judgment of a thing. It is more then fear: 2for he that fears, suspects not: suspition is a degree to judgment: it doth not fully judge, for then it were not suspition: it is more then fear; suspects not, but fears; It conceives slightly that such a thing should be done, and yet he dares not say it is done.
- 13. From Probabilities.
- 2Suspicion more then fear, less then judgment.Suspition more then fear, lesse then judgment.