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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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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.
Let a man have a world of wickednesse 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 blindnesse, and darknesse 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 blindnesse, he sets in order his natural confusion, that a man becomes a new creature, and an heire of a new World.
Let no people despair, nor no person; for God hath his Church in Corinth.