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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.
This is the other branch, what we should trust in, In God, all this humbling of the blessed Apostle even to deaths door, that he received the sentence of death; it was first to subdue carnal confidence in himself, he was prone to think himself stronger then he was, or that he should be upheld, that something or other should keep him from death, that he might subdue ⟨p. 148⟩carnal confidence, and then that he might trust in God, it was all for these two ends: That we might not trust in our selves, (or in any means) but in God that raiseth the dead.
This is the other branch, what we should trust in, In God, all this humbling of the blessed Apostle even to deaths door, that he received the sentence of death; it was first to subdue carnall confidence in himself, he was prone to think himself stronger then he was, or that he should be upheld, that something or other should keep him from death, that he might subdue ⟨p. 148⟩carnal confidence, and then that he might trust in God, it was all for these two ends: That we might not trust in our selves, (or in any means) but in God that raiseth the dead.
Was St. Paul to learn to trust in God, that had been so long a Scholar in Christs School, nay, a Master in Israel, was he to learn to trust in God?1
VVas St. Paul to learn to trust in God, that had been so long a Scholar in Christs School, nay, a Master in Israel, was he to learn to trust in God?1
- 1St. Paul to learn to trust in God.