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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
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We ought not to rage against the ill dispositions of men. If we were as good as God, and as Christ, men would have false suspicions of us. It is no innocency in the world that will free a man from suspicion: the wicked, poysonful disposition that the Devil stirs up against him. Therefore rage not against it, but bear it with a spirit of moderation.
We ought not to rage against the ill dispositions of men. If we were as good as God, and as Christ, men would have false suspitions of us. It is no innocency in the world that will free a man from suspition: the wicked, poysonful disposition that the Devill stirres up against him. Therefore rage not against it, but bear it with a spirit of moderation.
And let us decline as much as we can, and free the hearts of people from evil suspicion: and if we cannot avoid it, yet to bear it without discontent, considering it is the Lot of Gods children to be suspected, as we see here S. Paul was. To spare you, I came not to Corinth.
And let us decline as much as we can, and free the hearts of people from evil suspition: and if we cannot avoid it, yet to bear it without discontent, considering it is the Lot of Gods childen to be suspected, as we see here S. Paul was. To spare you, I came not to Corinth.
S. Paul besides his labouring to remove suspicion, he sets down here the true cause of his not coming to them, it was not lightness and inconstancy, it was to spare you. They had many abuses among them, and amended they must be, that was a conclusion. But the question is De modo, whether by gentle means, by writing an Epistle, and staying a while, or afterwards by coming, and telling them their sin to their face, and by being severe, and terrible among them? Now he concludes, I came not among you, for this very cause, that I might not be so severe, and terrible among you, as by office I should have been, if you had not amended before I came: as indeed they did, for they cast out the incestuous person, and reformed other abuses comfortably. They prevented S. Pauls severity with their reformation; they had not at the first cast out the incestuous person, and they had factions among them, they had Atheists among them that doubted of the resurrection, many abuses were crept in among them. S. Paul wrote a former Epistle upon a desire to reform those, and there was a blessed reformation wrought. S. Paul did not delight in austerity; therefore he deferred his coming, that he might have more joy, and contentment, then sorrow. To spare you, I came not.