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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
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Again, To try the sincerity of our estate, to make us to know our selves; to make us known to the world, and known to our selves, what 1good we have, and what ill we have. A man knows not what a deal of looseness he hath in his heart, & what a deal of falseness, till we come to the cross, & to extremity: Whereas before, I thought I had had a great deal of patience, a great deal of faith, and a great deal of heavenly mindedness: now I see I have not that store laid up as I thought I had. And sometime a man is deceived on the contrary: I thought I had had no goodness in me, and yet in extremity, such a one goes to prayer, he goes to the Word of God, to the communion of Saints, he delights in good things, and only in those: extremity makes him discern and know himself for ill, and for good, and makes others to know him too, that is another end.
Againe, To trie the sincerity of our estate, to make us to know our selves; to make us known to the world, and known to our selves, what 1good we have, and what ill we have. A man knows not what a deal of loosness he hath in his heart, & what a deal of falseness, till we come to the cross, & to extremity: Whereas before, I thought I had had a great deal of patience, a great deal of faith, and a great deal of heavenly mindedness: now I see I have not that store laid up as I thought I had. And somtime a man is deceived on the contrary: I thought I had had no goodness in me, and yet in extremity, such a one goes to prayer, he goes to the Word of God, to the communion of Saints, he delights in good things, and onely in those: extremity makes him discern and know himself for ill, and for good, and makes others to know him too, that is another end.
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Again, God suffers us to fall into extremity, to set an edge upon our desires, and our prayers, to make us cry to him, Out of the deep I have cried