Promise-keeping a great duty. As it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel…

2 Cor. 1.18. But as God is true, our word towards you, was not yea and nay.

THE principal occasion of Pauls Writing this Second Epistle to his Corinthians, seems to have been, some Aspersion that the false Teachers who came among them, had cast upon him: which they had taken advantage to do, by a Misinterpretation of some Expressions that he had used in the former Epistle, which they had perversely applied to the Scandalizing of his Person and Ministry: One of these was from a promise which he made of Coming to visit them, Chap. 16.5. which it seems, he had failed in performing, being hindered from coming, partly by the unforeseen Troubles which he had met ⟨p. 2⟩with in Asia, which providentially impeded his intended Journey; partly in respect of the unfit posture which this Church was in to receive him at that time. This they alleged against him, as if he were a light and inconstant man; very rash in promising, and very negligent in performing: which though some might think it a very small matter to raise a scandal upon, and to have proceeded rather of malice than any just occasion given: yet we see how solemn and industrious Paul is to wipe it off, and clear himself in this matter.

THE principal occasion of Pauls Writing this Second Epistle to his Corinthians, seems to have been, some Aspersion that the false Teachers who came among them, had cast upon him: which they had taken advantage to do, by a Misinterpretation of some Expressions that he had used in the former Epistle, which they had perversly applied to the Scandalizing of his Person and Ministry: One of these was from a promise which he made of Coming to visit them, Chap. 16.5. which it seems, he had failed in performing, being hindred from coming, partly by the unforeseen Troubles which he had met ⟨p. 2⟩with in Asia, which providentially impeded his intended Journey; partly in respect of the unfit posture which this Church was in to receive him at that time. This they alleadged against him, as if he were a light and inconstant man; very rash in promising, and very negligent in performing: which though some might think it a very small matter to raise a scandal upon, and to have proceeded rather of malice than any just occasion given: yet we see how solemn and industrious Paul is to wipe it off, and clear himself in this matter.