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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
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Then again, it gains a great confidence in the speaker, for what we speak with experience, we speak with a great deal of boldness.
Then again, it gains a great confidence in the speaker, for what we speak with experience, we speak with a great deal of boldnesse.
Again, experimental comforts, those that we have felt our selves, and 1have felt likewise the grievance, we speak them with such expressions, as no other can do (in the apprehension of the party whom we comfort) so well as an experienced person: for he goes about the works tenderly, and gently, and lovingly, because he hath been in the same himself. And that is the reason that the Apostle St. Paul in the place I named before Gal. 6. 1. presseth this duty upon spiritual men, especially because themselves have been tempted, and may be tempted; those that have been tempted, and think they may be afterward, this doth wondrously fit them for this work of comforting others. But to add a little in this point, to show how to comfort others by our own experience and skill, I spake before of an Art of comforting our 2selves: there is a skill likewise in comforting others. Even as we comfor our selves, in that method we must comfort others. When we comfort our selves: we must first consider our need of comfort, search our wounds, our maladies, have them fresh in our sight, that so we may be forced to seek for comfort, and as we ought to do this daily, so when we 3are to comfort others, we ought not only to comfort them, but to search them as much as we can what sin is in them, and what misery is upon them, and acquaint them with their own estate, that they are in as far as we can discern: we may judge of them partly by our selves. For we must not prostitute comforts to persons that are indisposed till we see them fitted. God doth comfort, but it is the abject: Christ heals, but is the wounded spirit: he came to seek, but it is to those that are lost: he came to ease, but it is those that are heavy laden. Therefore that we may comfort them to purpose, we ought to show, and discover to them what estate they are in, that we may force them to comfort, if they be not enemies to comfort and to their own souls.