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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 2
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This is to live by faith. As God is continually ready to show us favour in Christ, not only at the first in acquitting us from our sins; but continually doth show us favour upon all occasions, and is justifying and pardoning, and speaking peace continually to us: so there must be an action answerable ⟨p. 13⟩in us, that is depending upon God by faith; living by faith. This we do by seeing in what need we stand of Grace, God resists the proud, but gives Grace to the humble.
This is to live by faith. As God is continually ready to shew us favour in Christ, not onely at the first in acquitting us from our sins; but continually doth shew us favour upon all occasions, and is justifyng and pardoning, and speaking peace continually to us: so there must be an action answerable ⟨p. 13⟩in us, that is depending upon God by faith; living by faith. This we do by seeing in what need we stand of Grace, God resists the proud, but gives Grace to the humble.
Then again, that we may walk in the grace of God, and in the sense of it: let us every day labour to have our souls more and more enriched 1with the endowments and graces of Gods Spirit, that we may be objects of Gods delight. Let us labour to be affected to things as he is affected, two cannot walk together except they be agreed. Let us hate that which God hates, and delight in that which God delights in, that we may have a kind of complacency, and be in love with the blessed work of the Spirit of God more and more: Let us labour to delight in them that grow in grace; as the nearer any one comes to our likeness, the more we grow in familiarity with them. Labour also to preserve a clear soul, that God may shine upon us. God delights not in strangeness to us, his desire is that we may walk in the sense and assurance of his grace and favour.