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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
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.
St. Paul here calls his trouble a death. It was not a death properly, it is but his aggravation of the trouble that calls it a death: because Gods mercy only hindered it from being a death, it was only not a death, it was some desperate trouble, some desperate sickness, the particular is not set down in the Scripture. We know what a tumult there was about Diana of Ephesus, Acts 19. and in 1. Cor. 15. He fought with beasts at Ephesus, (which is in Asia) after the manner of men. Whether it were that, or some other we know not; whatsoever it was, he calls it a death: he doth not call it an affliction, but a death, & a great death, to make himself the more sensible.
St. Paul here calls his trouble a death. It was not a death properly, it is but his aggravation of the trouble that calls it a death: because Gods mercy onely hindred it from being a death, it was onely not a death, it was some desperate trouble, some desperate sicknesse, the particular is not set down in the Scripture. We know what a tumult there was about Diana of Ephesus, Acts 19. and in 1. Cor. 15. He fought with beasts at Ephesus, (which is in Asia) after the manner of men. Whether it were that, or some other we know not; whatsoever it was, he calls it a death: he doth not call it an affliction, but a death, & a great death, to make himself the more sensible.
Wherefore have we souls, and understandings, but to exercise them in setting forth our dangers, and the deliverances of God? to consider of things, to affect us deeply? The Apostle here to affect himself deeply, he sets it down here by a death.
VVherefore have we souls, and understandings, but to exercise them in setting forth our dangers, and the deliverances of God? to consider of things, to affect us deeply? The Apostle here to affect himself deeply, he sets it down here by a death.