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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 1
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WE have seen the persons from whom; Paul and Timothy; Now here are the persons to whom, To the Church of God at Corinth. Corinth was a very wicked City: as where there is a great confluence of many people, there is a contagion of many sins of the people; and yet notwithstanding in this Corinth, there was a Church. For as Christ saith, No man can come to me, except my Father draw him: so where the Father will draw, who can draw back? Even in Corinth God hath his Church: he raiseth up a generation of men, a Church, which is a company of creatures differing as much from the common, as men do from Beasts. And yet such is the Power and Efficacy of the blessed Gospel of Salvation, having the Spirit of God accompanying it, that even in Corinth, a wretched City, this Word, and this Spirit, raised up a company of men, called here by the name of a Church, and Saints. And such power indeed hath the Word of God with the Spirit, not only in wicked places, but in our wicked hearts too.
VVE have seen the persons from whom; Paul and Timothy; Now here are the persons to whom, To the Church of God at Corinth. Corinth was a very wicked City: as where there is a great confluence of many people, there is a contagion of many sins of the people; and yet notwithstanding in this Corinth, there was a Church. For as Christ saith, No man can come to me, except my Father draw him: so where the Father will draw, who can draw back? Even in Corinth God hath his Church: he raiseth up a generation of men, a Church, which is a company of creatures differing as much from the common, as men do from Beasts. And yet such is the Power and Efficacy of the blessed Gospel of Salvation, having the Spirit of God accompanying it, that even in Corinth, a wretched City, this Word, and this Spirit, raised up a company of men, called here by the name of a Church, and Saints. And such power indeed hath the Word of God with the Spirit, not only in wicked places, but in our wicked hearts too.
Let a man have a world of wickedness in him, and let him come, and present ⟨p. 5⟩himself meekly and constantly to the means of Salvation, and God in time by his Spirit will raise a new frame of grace in his heart, he will make a new Creation. As at the first he created all out of nothing, order out of confusion: so, out of the heart, which is nothing but a Chaos of confusion, of blindness, and darkness and terror: (there is a world of confusion in the heart of man) God by his creating Word (for his Word of the Gospel is creating, as well as his Word was at the first in the creation of the World; it hath a creating Power) he raiseth an excellent frame in the heart of a man, he scatters his natural blindness, he sets in order his natural confusion, that a man becomes a new creature, and an heir of a new World.