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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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The conversion of the Jews, which seems a thing so strange: when a man thinks how they are dispersed, and thinks of their poverty and disgrace, he thinks, Is this a likely matter? Remember what God hath said, ⟨p. 169⟩he will raise the dead. And because this is a work that seems as hard as the raising of the dead, therefore their calling and conversion is called a kind of resurrection, Rom. 11. Let us hope for that: He that raiseth the body, will raise that people, (as despicable as they are,) to be a glorious people, and Church.
The conversion of the Jewes, which seems a thing so strange: when a man thinks how they are dispersed, and thinks of their poverty and disgrace, he thinks, Is this a likely matter? Remember what God hath said, ⟨p. 169⟩he will raise the dead. And because this is a work that seems as hard as the raysing of the dead, therefore their calling and conversion is called a kind of resurrection, Rom. 11. Let us hope for that: He that raiseth the body, will raise that people, (as despicable as they are,) to be a glorious people, and Church.
And so for the confusion of the man of sin, The revelation of the Gospel, when it came out of the grave of darkness, out of the Egyptian darkness of Popery, was it not a raising of the dead?
And so for the confusion of the man of sin, The revelation of the Gospel, when it came out of the grave of darknesse, out of the Egyptian darknesse of Popery, was it not a raising of the dead?