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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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Oh no, God in covenant with us in Christ, he is the object of trust: or else there is such a distance, and contrariety between mans nature, & God, that he is a consuming fire. Since the fall from the covenant of works, we cannot be saved by that, but he hath vouchsafed to be ours in a better covenant in Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea, and Amen. This good ⟨p. 154⟩comes from God to us by Christ, Christ first receives it, and he derives it to us, as our elder brother, and as our head. All the promises are made in him, and through him: he receives it for us, we receive it at the second hand. God hath filled him first, And of his fullness we receive Grace for Grace.
Oh no, God in covenant with us in Christ, he is the object of trust: or else there is such a distance, and contrariety between mans nature, & God, that he'is a consuming fire. Since the fall from the covenant of works, we cannot be saved by that, but he hath vouchsafed to be ours in a better covenant in Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea, and Amen. This good ⟨p. 154⟩comes from God to us by Christ, Christ first receives it, and he derives it to us, as our elder brother, and as our head. All the promises are made in him, and through him: he receives it for us, we receive it at the second hand. God hath filled him first, And of his fulnesse we receive Grace for Grace.
Without him we can do nothing: with him we can do all things. So we trust in God reconciled, God made ours in the Covenant of Grace in Jesus Christ, who hath made our peace. Else God is a sealed fountain: he is a fountain of good, but a sealed fountain. Christ hath opened this fountain, his love is open to Christ, and derived to Christ, in whom our flesh is, he is bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, that we might be bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh by being united with him. So now we trust in him, as God the Father of Christ, reconciled. I believe in God the Father Almighty, as it is in the Creed, God thus considered is the object of trust. There are two objects of trust; God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and Christ Mediator.