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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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You may know an hypocrite so that carries himself smoothly, and acceptably in the eye of the World, but he makes no conscience of his thoughts, he makes no conscience of his affections, of his desires, of his lusts, and such things. He makes no conscience of lesser oaths, nor perhaps of rotten discourses: No, they are all for this, that they may pass in the World, that they may carry themselves with acceptance: as for what belongs to the New Creature, to Saints, they care not: for they have vain conceits of these, and judge them as hypocrites, because such a one knows himself should be an hypocrite, if he should do otherwise then he doth, therefore he thinks that others that are above his pitch, are hypocrites; and and they make a show of that that is not in them, because if he should make show of that, his heart would tell him that he were an hypocrite.
You may know an hypocrite so that carries himself smoothly, and acceptably in the eye of the World, but he makes no conscience of his thoughts, he makes no conscience of his affections, of his desires, of his lusts, and such things. He makes no conscience of lesser oathes, nor perhaps of rotten discourses: No, they are all for this, that they may passe in the World, that they may carry themselves with acceptance: as for what belongs to the New Creature, to Saints, they care not: for they have vain conceits of these, and judge them as hypocrites, because such a one knowes himself should be an hypocrite, if he should do otherwise then he doth, therefore he thinks that others that are above his pitch, are hypocrites; and and they make a shew of that that is not in them, because if he should make shew of that, his heart would tell him that he were an hypocrite.
A true Saint differs from an hypocrite in many respects; but in this one 1mainly, that a true Saint of God is altered in the inward frame and qualification ⟨p. 9⟩of his soul, he is a new Creature, therefore, there is a spring of better thoughts, of better desires, of better aims in him then in other men. And he labours more after the inward frame of his heart, then after his outward carriage: what he is ashamed to do, he is ashamed to think he is ashamed to lust after, what he desires to do, he desires to love in his heart, he labours that all may be true in the inward man: because grace (as well as nature) begins from the heart, from the inward parts.