b Fealoufie is a paſſion in a perion which makes him impatient of * Lev. 21. any Rival or Partner in the thing or pzr{on beloved. "the Apottle 13: tells them, that he was j-4/9us over them, and thereby lets them know, that he ſo paſhonately loved them, as that he was not patt- ent that any ſhould pretend more kindneſs to them, than he had for them ; and withal, that he had ſome fear of them, leſt they ſhould be perverted and drawn away from the tumplicity of the Goſpel ; upon this account he calls it 2 gs:lly Fealoujfre. c For (faith he) I have been inftrumental to bring you to Chriſt; this he calls an Eſpouſing of them, (the union of perions with Chriſt bCing CXx- preft in Scripture under the notion of a Varriage, Eph. 5.23, &c.)
4 And he exprelſeth his earnett dzlre to prelent them to Chrilt iacorrupted, like a chaft Virgin.
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gniled Eve through 11s ſubrilty, fo your minds ſhould be corrupted from the ſimplicity that is 1n Chrilt e. \:G2] | e In
Job: 3. 43:
3 Bur 1 tear leſt by any means as * the ſerpent be- , ca
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Chap. XI.
* 1 Cor. I5. 19.
+ 1 Cor.
1.17.& 2, * knowledge z; but * we have been throughly made manifeſt among you 11 all things k.
flo 13» *Eph. 3:4.
* Ch. 4-2. you in high Language, or in a neat Stile and Phraſe; either ha- & 5«IIe& yingno faculty that way, or if T have, yet chuſing rather to ſpeak plainly and home to your Conſciences, than floridly to tickle your ears With a fine ſound and chiming of words. 7 Yet I bleſs God, 1 am not defeQtive in knowledge ; and, as God hath enlightned me with a large knowledge of his Will, ſo 1 have communicated to you the whole Counſei of God, &k And in all things, which may de- clare me an Apoſtle, one ſent of Chriſt about the bufineſs of the Goſpel, I have been made m.ifeſt amongſt you ; preaching a- mongſt you the whole Dottrin of the Goſpel, and having been an Inſtrument to convert many of you from Paganiſm to Chri-
ſtianity.
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that you might be exalted /, becauſe I have preached to you the goſpel of God freely m ?
ing you cannot ſay, that either in my Call, or in my Gifts and Gra- ces, or in my Labours, or in the ſucceſs of my labours, I have been inferiour to the chiefeſt of the Apoſtles? Doth this offend you, that for your ſake I have veiled my Authority, and departed from my Right? which makes ſome of you ſay, 7 am baſe in preſence. m Is it for my putting you to 20 charge in my preaching the Go- ſpel? This was a thing wherein he gloried, and told them, 1 Cor. 9. 6, 12, 15. that be would rather die, than have his glorying void in this particular.
them to do you ſervice 7.
taking wages of them, (which indeed js no robbery, as he had pro- ved 1 Co. 9.) All the robbery that was in it lay in this, That his maintenance, in ftrictneſs of Right, ſhould have been propor- tionably from this, as well as from other Churches z but for ſome reaſons, (which he thinks fit to conceal) he refuſed to receive any thing from this Church ;z but ſpared them , and lived upon the maintenance he had from other Churches, while he was doing | them ſervice. poor, or that there were ſome in this Church who would ſooner have taken advantage to reproach him for it, and ſo have hindred the ſucce(s of the Gotpel, = to do it, certainit is, that he did it, and made it a great piece Gt 1113 glorying,
ftle's love to this Church, together with his earneft dehire to pre- ſent them in the Day of Judgment unth Chriſt pure and incorrup- td, cauſed him to write 3 becauſe he was afraid, left that as the Serpent by his ſubtilty deczeved Ev-, ſo ſome ſubtil Seducers ſhould corrupt them, and ſo withdraw them from the ſimplicity of their Faith in Chriſt, and obedience to him. from the Pagan Philoſophers, mixing their Philoſophical Notions with the plain Dodtrin of the Goſpel z and, partly, from ſome that were tenacious of the Judaical Rites, and would not underſtand the abolition of the Ceremonial Law. 4 For if he that cometh, preacheth another Jeſus
whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another *Gal. 1:7: ſpirit, which ye have not received, or * another go-
ſpel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear
with him f.
wel; bear, 1 cannot tell: the words manifeſtly are to be interpre- ted, you have well born, and ſo are plainly a retledtion upon ſome in this Church, who had patiently endured falſe Teachers, who
e Tn all F-4lovfre there is 4 mixture of love and fear; the Apo-
This danger was partly
f Zow our Tranſlators have interpreted y2a9s nel 49+, you my
I CORINTHIANS.
9 And when I was preſent with yon, and wanteg I * was coargeable to.no man 0: for that which «©.
donia, ſupplied p, and in all things I have kept my
keep my ſelf q.
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mummed in any thing, If we take it in the firſt mentioned ſznr. :. lets us ſee a reaſon why Paul refuſed to take wapes of the ( ho - of Corinth, leſt he ſhould cool and benum them as to the re of the Goſpel, when they ſaw it would prove chargeable tg then; If in the latter ſenſe, the Apoſtle ſeems to reflett upon ſuch whow wages only edged to their work, who preached meerly for 93;n the filthy lIncre. To diſtinguiſh himſelf from ſuch Hirelinss y Fell them, that when he was with them, and laboured amonsſt them in preaching the Goſpel, he put them to no charge ; yet he 2; not floathful in his work, but as laborious as thole who did Lake Wages. p As to himſelf, he had want enough whilft he waz among them 3 but the Providence of God ordered him a ſupply from ny,
Chap. 1c
. Was » lacking to me, the * hrethren that came from Mace- 11, 4 l Ther J ſelf trom being burdenſome unto you, and j; wij j 5 -. L {}
0 The word which we tranſlate Chargeable, ſignifies to 4111 , by E T benummed no Man; Or (as others) I was not my {elf more ,,” "Phils | Ore 6s: 1
ry chicteſt of the anoftles g.