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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.
What hinders thee?
Doest thou mean to be so still? It is no matter what thou hast been, but what thou wilt be. The greater the sickness, the more is the honour of the Physician in curing it: the greater thy sins, the more honour to God in forgiving such sins. Retort the temptation thus upon Satan: God works by contraries, and whom he will make righteous, he will make them to see their sins; and before he will raise us up, he will make us rotten in our ⟨p. 165⟩graves; before he will make us glorious, he will make us miserable. I know that God by this intends that I should despair in my self: God intends that I should despair indeed, but it is that I should despair in my self, as the text saith here, that we should not trust in our selves, when we have a sight of the vileness of our sins: but in God that raiseth the dead, that raiseth the dead soul, the despairing soul, that it should trust in him. Therefore retort the temptation upon Satan, because I see my sins, and despair in my self, therefore I trust in God. He that is in darkness and sees no light, let him trust in the Lord his God.
Doest thou mean to be so still? It is no matter what thou hast been, but what thou wilt be. The greater the sickness, the more is the honour of the Physitian in curing it: the greater thy sins, the more honour to God in forgiving such sins. Retort the temptation thus upon Satan: God works by contraries, and whom he will make righteous, he will make them to see their sins; and before he will raise us up, he will make us rotten in our