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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.
First, St. Paul might reason thus, I am brought to death, as low as I can be, even to receive the sentence of death, but I trust in God who will raise me when I am dead: therefore he can raise me out of sickness, though there be no means, no physic, he can do it himself. Or if it were persecution, he might reason, I am now persecuted: but God will raise me out of the grave: therefore he can raise me out of this trouble if it be for my good: It hath the force of a strong argument that way.
First, St. Paul might reason thus, I am brought to death, as low as I can be, even to receive the sentence of death, but I trust in God who will raise me when I am dead: therefote he can raise me out of sicknesse, though there be no means, no physick, he can do it himself. Or if it were persecution, he might reason, I am now persecuted: but God will raise me out of the grave: therefore he can raise me out of this trouble if it be for my good: It hath the force of a strong argument that way.
And it hath another force, that is, put case the worst, I received the sentence of death, that is, if I die, as I look for no other, yet I trust that God that raiseth the dead, he will raise me: the confidence of the resurrection makes 1me die comfortably. As we sleep quietly, because we hope to rise again, and we put our seed into the ground, with comfort, why? we hope to receive it in a more glorious manner in the harvest: so though my body be ⟨p. 167⟩sown in the earth, it shall rise a glorious body; I trust in God, though I receive the sentence of death, yet I shall sleep in the Lord, as when I go to sleep, I hope to rise again: so I trust when the resurrection shall come, that my body shall waken, and arise. I trust in God that raiseth the dead; because he raiseth the dead, he can recover me if he will: if not, he will make this body, a glorious body afterward: so every way it was a strong argument with Saint Paul, I trust in God that raiseth the dead.