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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 2
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As in serious business, salute no man by the way, as Christ saith to his Apostles: 1A neglect sometimes is good manners, when respect is swallowed up in a greater duty. As it was good manners for David to Dance, and to carry himself (as it were) unseemly before the Ark: because he was to neglect respect to meaner persons, to forget the respect he was to show to men, being altogether taken up with higher matters, it was a kind of decency, and comeliness. And overmuch scrupulousness and niceness in lesser things, when men are called to greater, is but unmannerly manners: in these cases, these lesser must give way and place to the greater; Salute no man by the way, dispatch the business you are about, that is, if it may be a hindrance in the way, salute not: this is in respect of time.
As in serious businesse, salute no man by the way, as Christ saith to his Apostles: 1A neglect sometimes is good manners, when respect is swallowed up in a greater duty. As it was good manners for David to Dance, and to carry himself (as it were) unseemly before the Ark: because he was to neglect respect to meaner persons, to forget the respect he was to shew to men, being altogether taken up with higher matters, it was a kind of decencie, and comlinesse. And overmuch scrupulousnesse and nicenesse in lesser things, when men are called to greater, is but unmannerly manners: in these cases, these lesser must give way and place to the greater; Salute no man by the way, dispatch the businesse you are about, that is, if it may be a hindrance in the way, salute not: this is in respect of time.
- 11. In serious business.1. In serious businesse.
And as for time, so for persons: a notorious, incorrigible Heretic salute not: to salute such a one would be (as it were) a connivance, or an indulgence