2 Corinthians 1

2 Corinthians 1:1

AChaia,] a province of Peloponnesus or Morea, where Corinth 〈◊〉.

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Comforteth us,] it appeares that the Apostle finding himself in great streights in the course of his ministery, had found great comfort in the fruit which his first epistle to the church of Corinth ad brought forth by correcting of many defaults.

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Of Christ,] which wee suffer for his name as his members, to be conformable, to him our head who participates of them with us, and beares us up in them by his power. Rom. 8, 17. Revelation 1:9.

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It is or,] namely that in me you may ve an example that God doth in this world afflict even his most faithull servants to exercise them: that ye may likewise prepae your selves for〈…〉h tialls: and that seeing God never doth forsake them with his comfort and vertue, and that at the 〈◊〉 he doeth deliver them in good time, you should also dispose your selves to faith and patience, by 〈…〉nes whereof all your afflictions may prove to your salvation and life, s effectuall,] sheweth its 〈◊〉, and effect in strengthening and bearing you up in the like troubles.

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Which came,] it may bee hee meanes the persecution of Ephesus. acts. 19. 23. 1. Cor. 15. 3.

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We had,] he was verily perswaded that he should die, that we should,] Gods end in bringing of his into such extremities is to teach them to renounce all manner of presuming upon themselves, and to put no manner of confidence in human meanes and to repose all their trust and beleef in God alone, to whom no deliverance, not even from death is impossible.

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By many,] namely beleevers having a joynt feeling of my deliverance, to give God thanks therefore as they had a feeling of my dangers, and prayed unto him for me. So he sheweth that his principall end in desiring of thse prayers to be made for him, was the glory of God.

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For our,] he gives a reason of this request namely because his loyaltye towards them in his ministery was worth to be recompensed by them with their prayers for him, goodly sencerity,] not only in a moral and civil sincerity answereable to the duty and judgment of men: but in a spirituall one, created in the Apostle by God, and approved of b him, no with,]without using any art of human knowledge or eloquence therein: but onely the supernatuall gift of God in light of truth and strength of his spirit.

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For we write,] we may boldly boast of these things to you who have discerned the truth thereof, and doe know it with an undoubted knowledge.

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As alsol,] I hope you will never enter into any diffidence of my sincerity seeing that hitherto, you have esteemed it to be a happinesse and glory unto you, that you had me to be your Apostle and founder of your church, with such abundance of spirituall gifts for you in part,] somewhat, a terme of modest extenuation or silent reprehension of the Corinths for having wavered in this beleef by the inducement of false Apostles, even as,] and so enterchangeable your Church hath bin as a paragon of blessing upon my ministery, and the very heigh of all my labours as I doe also expect to be approved of and crowned by Christ for it at the last judgment.

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That you might,] that as you were by my first comming unto you converted so by my second you might be confirmed and set up right.

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Lightnesse,] having not hitherto accomplished my designe to visite you according to,] namly without the guide of the spirit, according to mine own naturall understanding, for worldly respects, which varying in themselves or at least in my conceipt maycause me to alter mymind, there should be,] I should say and promise now one thing and afterwards another.

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As God,] a kinde of oath by the interposition of Gods truth, who by his spirit did likewise make the Apostles ministery true, our wod,] have a care above all other things, that you do no take this change of designe for an argument of instability in my doctrine but beleeve that I have done it for some certaine and sufficient reason.

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For the,] Christ who is the only obiect of our preaching have bin taught by us without any variation or contradiction with a perfect uniformity as well between me and my companions, as in all parts of my doctrine among them and the foundation thereof is in Christ himself and the substance of his gospell which is most pure absolute and everlasting truth and in the revelation of his spirit.

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For all,] Gods will being to be glorified, and to beacknowledged perfe〈…〉true in the accomplishment of all his promises in Christ, preached by us; hath also given us Apostles an infallible conduct of his spirit that the truth of our word, might be wholly correspondent, to the 〈…〉h of what Christ hath done as he himself in effects hath bin correspondent to Gods promises.

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Stab〈…〉sh,] he giveth us grace and power to preach the Gospell without erring or varying and you firmely to beleeve in it, 〈…〉d us.] consecrated us to this high office of Apostles, and endowed us with sitting gifts for it.

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Who hath,] he hath done that in us in regard of our Apostle-ship by vertue of the same spirit, as maketh good in us, and in all his beleevers his vocation, and election by the gift of regeneration; marking us for his own, as it were with a seale, 2 Timothy 2:19. and as it were by an earnest, or gage assuring us, of the future perfect enjoyment of his goods.

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Upon my soule,] submitting my person to his judgement if I lie To spare you,] to give you time for voluntary repentance before my comming to the end that being present, I might not be forced to use any severitie.

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Not for that,] that which I speake of sparing you, is not because that I am Master of your Consciences to give: or take away from you the grace of God at my pleasure. For in this regard you depend upon Christ onely, in believing in whom consists your spirituall life and subsistencie: But because the chiefe end of my ministerie is to comfort you, and not to grieve you without any urgent necessitie, I have stayed my comming, that you might prevent my just rigor and that I might freely performe towards you this pleasing office of comforting you.