2 Corinthians 7

2 Corinthians 7:1-16

:2 Re〈…〉as,] open your hearts to our word and exhortation, cast away all prejudicate thoughts suspicious, and false opinions, which shut up the entrance of your hearts. See 2 Corinthians 6:13 Corrupted,] drawne him unto us by sinister practises, or caused him to goe astray from the faith, and from wholesome doctrine, or from any other part of his dutie.

2 Corinthians 7:3

To condemne you,] to accuse you for any such calumnies against mee To dye,] an ordinary terme, expressing a perfect friend-ship and conjunction: as if two friends had sworn never to forsake one another, neither in life nor death: or as if they lived but by one and the selfe same life.

2 Corinthians 7:5

Our flesh,] Namely I my selfe in regard of my corporall and outward state. For in respect of the soule towards God, the spirit of peace and comfort, did never forsake him Without,]namely without the Church, by enemies, and strangers.

2 Corinthians 7:6

Titus,] whom he had sent to Cotinth, to take notice of the true state of that Church, and to reforme it. Now it appeares by 2 Corinthians 2:12-13. that Titus returned whilest Paul was writing this Epistle: and knew by some other meanes the good effect which the former Epistle had taken for the Corinthians amendment.

2 Corinthians 7:7

By his,] namely not onely in regard of his presence and person, which is so deare, and so usefull to me Your mourning,] your publike mourning and griefe for your disorders and faults censured by my former Epistle Your servent minde,] the Italian, Your zeale,] or jealousie, to see me so calumniated, and defamed by false Apostles, with a fervent desire to defend the innocencie of my person, and dignitie of mine Apostleship The more,] Namely more than if I had had no cause at all to complaine of you and censure you in my former Epistle.

2 Corinthians 7:8

Though I did,] I did grieve for a time, that I had beene forced to use so much severitie, and feared least it should produce some effect contrary to your salvation, which is mine only aime.

2 Corinthians 7:9

Not that yee,] not like an enemy or an ill willer, that takes delight in another bodies displeasure: but like a faithfull friend who rejoyceth in the good which befalleth his friend, though it bee with some short smart Afr a godly,] the Italian, According to God,] according to his holy will, as he appointeth, or as he worketh by his spirit in his children, for to bring them to repentance That yee might,] and in this kinde ye have receaved no dammage nor losse at all by mee, but a great deale of profit.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Not to bee,] whose fruit is alwayes most sweet and saving Of the world,] Namely which is proper to worldly men, not regenerated by Gods spirit whose griefe is but a sharpe feeling of their miseries, without any sincere Repentance or a remorse and wounding the Conscience for their sins, without faith, amendment, or conversion to God whereby all that repentance, is an entrance to eternall death, and a beginning of it.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For behold,] hee proveth the foresaid good effect by all the particulars of a serious Repen¦tance Carefulnesse,] in readily and carefully putting in execution all that I had appointed for the correction of your errors, especially for the punishing of the incestuous man Clearing of,] Namely shewing your innocencie concerning that misdeed, having proceedeso severely against the guilty person Indignation,] moved by a fervent zeale, and justice, to condemne the guiltie, and impose the Ecclesiasticall punishments upon him Feare,] a holy feare of Gods judgements upon the whole body your Church, for such an abominable misdeed of one of the members of it Vehement desire,] the Italian Great affection,] Namely to the glory of God, and to my person and ministerie Revenge,] a just anger, and punishment. See Romans 13:4.

2 Corinthians 7:12

I did it not,] Namely my chiefe end hath not beene to doe any act of a Iudge as between adverse parts, but to provide for the generall good of your Church, and therefore having obtained mine intent, I am cotent therewith, and rejoyce at it In the sight of,] namely for the discharge of my conscience, in the duty which I owe to God as his minister.

2 Corinthians 7:14

Of you,] namely of your pietie, docilitie reverence, and obedience to God, and to me his servant Ashamed,] that is to say found a lyar, or deceaved in mine opinion.

2 Corinthians 7:15

With seare,] namely with humilitie, Christian devotion, and religious obedience.