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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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He accounts it an honour when we trust him, but indeed it is an honour to us that we have a throne of grace through Christ to go to, that he hath devised a way that we might trust him, and not run from him: that we may go to him in Christ, who sits at his right hand, who is our intercessor, who hath redeemed us with his precious Blood. It is our happiness that he hath made himself a gracious, and loving Father, that he calls us to him, and thinks himself honoured by our trusting in him.
He accounts it an honour when we trust him, but indeed it is an honour to us that we have a throne of grace through Christ to go to, that he hath devised a way that we might trust him, and not run from him: that we may go to him in Christ, who sits at his right hand, who is our intercessor, who hath redeemed us with his precious Blood. It is our happinesse that he hath made himself a gracious, and loving Father, that he calls us to him, and thinks himself honoured by our trusting in him.
Again, we see here that,1 Trust in God is a main duty.
- 1Doct. Trust in God is a main duty.
He is the object of trust, and it is a main duty, it is a spring of duty out of which all comes: for we see here, all doth aim at this: afflictions they come to mortify our self-confidence: self-confidence is subdued that we may trust in God: our trust must be carried to him, he is the object of it: and this trust in God is a main duty which in this world we ought to labour for. It is that that God doth aim at, and it is that that we should aim at. God doth aim at it in exercising of us; and we should aim at it on our part, in our hearing, in our receiving the Sacrament, in every thing, that our trust and affiance and confidence may be in God, and that we may grow more and more in it.