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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.
God is the God that raiseth the dead: Therefore let us oft think of this, 1think what God means to do with us, that we may carry out selves answerably, I trust in God that raiseth the dead: Therefore let us honour God while we live, with that body that he will raise: let us be fruitful in our place. Saint Paul draws this conclusion, 1 Cor. 15. from the resurrection, Finally, my brethren, be constant, unmoveable, alway abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Especially considering that he will raise the dead bodies after a more glorious manner then they are now, he will make a more glorious body. For alway Gods second works are better then his first: he raiseth the dead, and will make our bodies, like the glorious body of Christ.
God is the God that raiseth the dead: Therefore let us oft think of this, 1think what God means to do with us, that we may carry out selves answerably, I trust in God that raiseth the dead: Therefore let us honour God while we live, with that body that he will raise: let us be fruitful in our place. Saint Paul drawes this conclusion, 1 Cor. 15. from the resurrection, Finally, my brethren, be constant, unmoveable, alway abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Especially considering that he will raise the dead bodies after a more glorious manner then they are now, he will make a more glorious body. For alway Gods second works are better then his first: he raiseth the dead, and will make our bodies, like the glorious body of Christ.
- 1To carry our selves as expecting the resurrection.
But the point of the resurrection is very large, and perhaps I shall have better occasion to speak of it afterward. I only apply it to the present purpose, how it strengthens faith in misery, and in the hour of death.