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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 10
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VERS. 10. Who delivered us from so great a death, who doth deliver us, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.
Saint Paul sets down his troubles to the life, that he might make himself and others more sensible of his comforts, and of Gods grace, and goodness in his deliverance. These words contain his deliverance out of that trouble, his particular deliverance out of a particular trouble: And this deliverance is set down by a triple distinction of time, as time is either past, present, or to come; so God who is the deliverer for all times, he hath delivered us for the time past, he doth deliver us for the present, in whom we trust that he will deliver us for the time to come. Who delivered us from so great a death.
SAint Paul sets down his troubles to the life, that he might make himself and others more sensible of his comforts, and of Gods grace, and goodness in his deliverance. These words contain his deliverance out of that trouble, his particular deliverance out of a particular trouble: And this deliverance is set down by a triple distinction of time, as time is either past, present, or to come; so God who is the deliverer for all times, he hath delivered us for the time past, he doth deliver us for the present, in whom we trust that he will deliver us for the time to come. Who delivered us from so great a death.
After St. Paul had learned to rust in God, after he had taken forth that lesson, a hard lesson to learn, that must be learned by bringing a man to such extremity; I say, after he had learned to trust in God that raiseth the dead, God gave him this reward of his diligence in the blessed school of afflictions, he delivered him, who hath delivered us, and who doth deliver us continually, he will not take his hand from the work, and for the time to come I hope he will do so still.