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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 8, 9
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.
First to speak of his grievance, and then of the reason why God did thus follow him. We would not have you ignorant.
First to speake of his grievance, and then of the reason why God did thus follow him. We would not have you ignorant.
He prevents all scandal by this, I would not have you ignorant, I am so far from caring, or fearing, or being ashamed, that you should know of any affliction that I suffer, that I would not have you ignorant of it: for know this, that when you know my afflictions you shall know my deliverance also. St. Paul was wondrous scrupulous at this, left they should take any offence at his sufferings: indeed it is the state of Gods Children, their worst 1cross: sometimes are censures upon them for the cross, the harsh censures of others in their troubles; It was the last, and the greatest of Job's troubles, that, and his wife together, when his house was overthrown, his Children killed, his goods taken away, himself stricken with boils: then for his indiscreet friends, to become miserable comforters: those that should have comforted him, to become censurers and judges of him, as if he had been a man deserted, and forsaken of God, as if all had been from God as a punishment for his sins: this was his greatest cross, as it was his last, when his wife in his bosom, she that should have comforted him most, should solicit him to ill, and his friends by their rash and vile censures to make his cross heavier: So it is with Gods Children in the world, they cannot endure hardness in the World, they cannot be used otherwise then their cause deserves: but they must also undergo hard censures, that grieves them more then the cross it self. It was the case of this blessed Apostle, the Spirit of God in him therefore sets him to mention his affliction with boldness and confidence, yea, with comfort and joy, I would not have you ignorant, I am not of the mind of carnal men, that would have it concealed, nay, I would not have you ignorant, I pray understand it: he lays it open to their view, that they might be affected with it, as he was: for those things that we are affected with, we are large in the discourse of them: he shows that the misery though it were past, and were off, yet he was affected with it: We were pressed out of measure above strength. This seems