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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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So let none be discouraged, nature goes one way, and faith and grace another: a man may know when it is nature, and when it is grace; when grace subdues nature, and subordinates it to a higher principle; a man need not be much troubled.
Christ himself our head, he was afraid of death when he looked on death as death: but when he looked upon death as a service, as a redemption, ⟨p. 133⟩as a sweet sacrifice to God, so with a thirsting I have thirsted; saith he, he thirsted after death in that respect: looking to his humane nature, to the truth of his manhood, then saith he, Oh that this cup might pass from me, but in another consideration, he willingly gave his soul a sacrifice for sin to God.
Christ himself our head, he was afraid of death when he looked on death as death: but when he looked upon death as a service, as a redemption, ⟨p. 133⟩as a sweet sacrifice to God, so with a thirsting I have thirsted; saith he, he thirsted after death in that respect: looking to his humane nature, to the truth of his manhood, then saith he, Oh that this cup might passe from me, but in another consideration, he willingly gave his soul a sacrifice for sin to God.
The desire is as the objects are presented, let heaven and happiness be presented, so death is a passage to it, so death is the end of misery, and the beginning of happiness, so Gods Children desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, as St. Paul did. But look upon death otherwise as it is an enemy to nature; as it is a stop of all employment in this world, and of all service to the Church, that we can do God no longer service, and so a man may desire to live still, and be afraid of death if he look upon death in the glass of nature, and in the glass of the Law, likewise that it comes in as a punishment, of sin so indeed it is terrible, it is the King of fears. But look upon it in another glass, in the glass of the Gospel, as it is sweetened, and as it is disarmed by Christ, and so it is comfortable, Better is the day of death; then the day of birth: for in our birth we come into misery, in death we go from it. So upon diverse considerations we may be diversly affected, and have diverse respects to things: for the soul of man is framed, so to be carried to the present object, and therefore to a good man in some respects, at sometime death is terrible, he trembles at it, which upon higher considerations and respects he embraceth willingly.