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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.
And then the soul lives by faith of the issue in great extremities; I am in great extremity, but I know all shall end well, Thus we trust in God in all extremity of afflictions whatsoever: in the hour of Death, when we receive the Sentence of Death, how do we then exercise trust in God?
And then the soul lives by faith of the issue in great extremities; I am in great extremity, but I know all shall end well, Thus we trust in God in all extremity of afflictions whatsoever: in the houre of Death, when we receive the Sentence of Death, how do we then exercise trust in God?
In Psal, 16. My flesh shall rest in hope: because thou wilt not suffer thy Holy one to see corruption: Because God did nor suffer Christ to see corruption 1(who is our head) therefore my flesh likewise shall rest in hope, when I die. Our head triumphed over Death, and is in Heaven, and I die in Faith, I trust in God that raised him from the Dead, who was my surety. I know my debts are paid, my surety is out of prison; Christ, who took upon him to discharge my debts, he is out of the prison of the grave, he is in heaven: therefore my flesh shall rest in hope.
- 1Trust how exercised in the hour of death.
If it were not for this, that Christ were risen: when we have the sentence of Death, we over-look the grave, we see our selves in Heaven: as David saith, I should utterly have failed, but that I looked to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Then faith looks beyond Death, and beyond the grave, it looks up, and with Stephen it sees Christ at the right hand of God: we see Christ ready to receive our souls.