2 Unto the Church of God which 1s in Coriatl: : 4 to them that are ſanctified in Chriſt Jeſus * called 79 be * Fudge ; Saints : e with all that in every place * call upon the *Rom. :.7. Name of Jeſus Chriſt our Lord, both theirs and ours f, 2 Tim. 1 d Unto thoſe in Corinth, who having received the Doctrine of 9+ __. the Goſpel, and owned Jeſus Chriſt as their Saviour, were united * * 1M in one Eccleſiaſtical body for the worſhip of God, and communi- 2: ** , on one with another. Corinth was a famous City in Acai, (which Achaiah was joined to Greece by a neck of Land betwixt the Z7ca2 and Tonian Sea) it grew the moſt fzmous Mart of all Greece, Paul came thither from Athens; 44s 18. 1. Criſpus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue there believed, up9a Pay! spreaching, fo did many Corinthians,and were baptized, v. 9. he ſtayed there eighteen Months, wv. 11. there Soſthenes {mentioned v. 1. was Convertel)from thence Paul went to Epheſus, v 19. Theſe Believers were thol- here Cai- led the Church of Cod in Corinth to whom he writ?s tl.is £p le (as It ſhould ſeem from ch. 16. 8.) from Eph-ſus, where Paul ſtiid three Years, A#s 20. 31. e The Members of this Churcl/the Apoſtle cal- leth ſuch as are [antified in Criſt Feſus called to be Saints : whe: 1er by the term the Apoſtle meancth only ſuch as by the p::1ching of the Goſpel, are Teparared from the Heathensat Corinth, aud pro- felled Faith in Chriſt (as 4#&s 15. 9. the Apoltle [aich, the Gy: 7cs hearts were purifi-d by faith.) Or fachin Cor:1th as were really regenerated, and had their hearts renewed and changed, is nor e{1-: to determine, both of them are Saints by caling,the farmer are called
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