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15 Thanks be unto Go: for his unſpeakable git 6.
b Interpreters arc not agreed what the Apottle hzze meaneth by God's #-:/p2akthls Gift, Some by it underſtand Chriit, who is re © {67 God, and th? Fountain of ail Grace and to this, the t pithet | {4-2þ2512)] doth bet agrez Others underitand the G:ſp-1, by which the hearcs of YNicn are ſubdued, effectually diſpoſed, and 1n- Cincd co obey the A ill of God. Others think it 1s to be underftood }f that habit of brotherly Love, which from the Spirit of Chriſt, by the Goſpel, was wrought in the hearts of theſe Corinthians. 1 the laſt be meant, (to which the moſt incline) the Apoſtle decla- reth bis firm perſwation of them, that they would obey him in this thing, and giveth God thanks for giving them ſuch an heart. SECINS the Contribution was not yet made, though a year betore *Ney nad declared their readine(s ro ir, I ſhould rather incline tO 1NteErPret it concerning Chriſt; and that the Apoſtle concludeth this waole Liſcourie about congributing to the R-liet of thele poor Members of Chriſt, with a general Doxclopie, or bleſing, of God for Jeſus Chriſt, who is the Author and finiſher of all Grace, without ſuch a particular reference to the preceding Diſcourſe; yet heredy hint- in; to them, that without the Influence of his Grace they would, they could do nothing.
CHAP. X.
Arinſt falſe Apcfiteswbo diſyraced the weatneſs of his perſon and bodily pr:ſence, be declares his ſpiritual nigot and authority for Edijications 1---9. which ke ws realy 10 ſhem, mot only by his Lerers, bit by his preſence : They viuted them ſelves in other mens Lavours ;, but he by this power had ſpread ite Ceſpe! even unto that place, where others had nor
Luwoured befar, and te Foped to do 71 farther, 10---16. and this he . . . »/* . 73 *. -? IJ g 4 ſaith ner to Glory in bimſeif, bus in the Grace of God among them,17,1 ve
1. TO 1 Paul my felf beſeech you by the meck- K, and gentleneſs of Chriſt a, who Þ 1
_ preſence an baſe among you b, bur being abſent am, aipearance. 10'd towards You c.
Hitherto the Apo{tle, (who 17 Fis fermer Fpiſtle.-had biamed this Church for ſo many things, and dealt ſharply with them) in this Epiſtle, bath treated them as if they dad been a People that had no Faults, or none but rehat in 6b2.lience to his former Epiſtle they had reforined, and be- come a new Lump; which argueth, that the major part of the Members of it were a good and an obedient Peopg'. by whoſe prevalent Vote they kad reformed much that was amiſs. But in theſe four laſt Chapters, 19 let us know that there was yet ſome of the old Leaven among them, he uſerb another ſtile ;, raking notice, that he underſtood rhere was among them another (though poſſibly the leſſ-r) Party, who bad much vilified
bim; and juſtifying kimſelf 2gainſt their whiſperiigs, and calumies,
0t without ſoine ſharp Reflections upon theme
2 Meekneſs reſpeQeth the Spirit or inward Man, being a Vertue that moderateth inward Anger and raſh Paſhons. Geztlez:ſs more reſpetteth the outward Converſation. The Apoſtle mentioneth be:h theſe Virtues, as eminent in* Chriſt, who is our great Ex- am;l-, and to whom all Chriſtians are bound to be contormable. b He here repeateth the words of thoſe who, in this Church, re- pro.cned him ; they reported him a Man, who, when he was there in preſence With them, was lowly and humble enough $; c Bur when he was abſent from them, then he wrote imperiouily and confidently enough. The ſenſe of the works is plainly this, I Pay! (of whom ſome among you ſay, That when 1 ara there with you 1 am low and humble enough, even to ſome d2grees of baſeneſs; but waen 1 am abſent, then IT write lik2 a Lord, beldly and confidently) 1 beſeech you to conſider th2 temper of our common”"Lord and Sa- viour, to remember how free he was from rath Anger and Yalion, how gentle h2 was in ,his Converſation, and by the Obligation that is upon you, to love and practiſe thoſe Virtues which you ſaw, or have heard of, in him.
2 Bur I beſcech you, thet I may not be bold when I am preſent 4, with that confidence wherewith |
+ Or, zec- think to be bold againit fome, which - think of us as ow if we walked accordiag to the flelh e.
d It is true (ſaith the Apoſtle) when 1 have been with you, 1 have mad? it my buſine!> to bzhave my ſelf with all obliging iweet- neſs, not uſing that Authority which T might have uled 3 and ] beſeech you, as not to blame me for that, (remembring the meek- ne{s and gentlenels of Chrift) ſo by your Converſation not to force me to another kind of Converſation among you ; that you would not conſtrain me to a ſevere Behaviour towards you when 1 am preſent with you, e to be ſo free with ſome of you, as at preſent I am reſolved to be; ſuch, T1 mean, as have traduced me, as if 1 walk- &d according 19 the fie[1, that is, not guided by the holy Spirit of God, and the directions of his Word, but by ſome external, carnal con-