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A70857	Christos angasmos, or, Christ our sanctification faithfully explained, fully confirmed, and practically applied ... being the substance of several lectures or meditations / by Tho. Pichard ...	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3524; ESTC R10560	136,857	229

18.10 and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee c. God did not only promise the assistance of his Spirit to his Ministry though that is rather implied than expressed but God also promiseth his Protecting Presence to his person that no man should set on him to hurt him How valiantly and chearfully may a soul fight after such a Leader and under such Ensigns under the promise of the faithful God and in the presence of the Mighty God He to whom God is a Sun of influence and a Shield of defence as he hath promised Psa 84.11 may go on in the face of the greatest difficulty with courage and success and fear no colours because one single God is eminently and infinitely more more for strength support and succour than all the enemies are for fear and terror When the snares of death prevent thee Psa 18.4 5. and the floods of the ungodly make thee afraid call upon God cry to the Lord in thy distress as David did Psa 18.6 Act faith on God by the Warrant of his own precious Promises these among others are very pertinent and pregnant Isa 41 10 11. Fear thou not for I am with thee c. 〈…〉 2. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee c. Isa 8.12 13 14. Neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid but sanctifie th Lord ●f Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread This is Gods Precept and your Duty v. 14. And he shall be for a Sanctuary This is Gods Promise and your Priviledge But to return the Apostle hereby animated continued at Corinth a year and six moneths Act 18.11 teaching the Word of God among them during which space of time by the blessing of God upon his Ministry or in his own phrase by the grace of God which was with him 1 Cor. 15.10 he had gathered and planted a most flourishing Church at Corinth to whom he gives many Encomiums or Titles of praise in the beginning of this Epistle Chap. 1.5 6 7. God had indeed much people in this City whom he sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be Saints A * Quis Quaeso Electos multos in perv●si ●●●a civitate quaesi ●isset Deus tamen no●e●●t quos ●●gisset qui fui essent Pa●●us German Divine admiring at Gods goodness and Paul's success cryes our Who I pray would have sought for many Elect in a most perverse City But God knew whom he had elected and who were his No place is so prophane saith the same Author in which God hath not his This passage puts me in mind of an excellent note of a † M. Car●l in his Exposition yea the three first Charters ● Joh ● ●3 Worthy Divine of ours where he observes God hath his servants in all places in the worst of places There was never any air so bad but that a servant of God may breathe in it God had a choice piece even in the Land of Uz a place of prophaneness here was Bethel in Bethaven an House of God in a Land of wickedness and so he goes on excellently There were Saints in Caesars wicked Neroes houshold so there were Saints many Saints at leastwise many which the Lord did intend actually to call and sanctifie by Paul's Ministry and consequently to save and glorifie that were Inhabitants even in Corinth in that most ⋆ In 〈…〉 perver● 〈…〉 corrupt and most perverse City infamous for luxury effemin●teness and many other vices as a good Author doth observe 3. Upon what occasion this Epistle was written The occasion was twofold First was Those grievous and great scandals and vices which crept in and invaded the Church of Corinth after the departure of the Apostle of which throughout the whole Epistle we hear at large The Apostle having planted a great Church there went forward in his Ministerial Circuit according to his Commission from thence to preach the Gospel in other Cities of Asia and after a considerable time being now at Ephesus as may be gathered from 1 Cor. 16.8 he understood there from some of the * A Cloes fam●●aribus Apostolus edoctus esset 〈◊〉 This Clo● seems to have been an honest Mat●on and of esteem among the Church of Corinth So the Dutch Annotat. houshold of Cloe that there were divisions among them wherefore because he could not come himself in person at present to apply healing plaisters to their sores he sends them this Epistle wherein he doth gravely advertise them put them in mind of their duty he shews them their fall and folly and directs them to the right cure and recovery and that the cure might be wrought effectually he labours to effect it several wayes if possibly he might take them with honest guile 1. Sometimes he praiseth commendeth and speaks them fair as a Father 2. Sometimes he speaks roughly and reproves sharply with Power and Authority as an Apostle 3. Sometimes he prayes entreats and gently instructs them as a Brother and all to make them sensible of their sinful malady and receptive of a spiritual remedy 2. The other occasion was the Epi●tle sent to him from the Corinthians as appears from 1 Cor. 7.1 wherein they asked the Apostles advice and counsel touching divers matters as touching Matrimonials Cum primis de Matrimonialibus de Idolothytis de Spiritualibus charismatis de modo Prophetandi de collecta denique faciendâ or the affairs that have reference to Marriage of Meat dedicated or offered up to Idols of Spiritual Gifts of the manner of Prophecying Lastly touching a collection to be made for the poor Saints at Jerusalem as is evident from 1 Cor. 16.3 As this last from this Text so all the former are very clear and manifest to every eye that reads and to every serious mind that notes the Series of this Epistle 4. What is the Argument of this Epistle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The whole Argument of this Epistle is corrective and hor●atory consisting of * Hujus Epistolae varia est ac multiplex utilitas multos enim insignes locos continet Calv. divers parts as that Church did labour under divers distempers All may be reduced to these eight Heads 1. In the four first Chapters the Apostle reproves the factious spirits and courses of the Corinthians whereby they had re●● themselves into Sects and Parties and exhorts them to concord and unity he also excuseth the plainness simplicity and purity of his Doctrine and on the contrary nips and sharply checks the vanity of the false Apostles in the ostentation of their Grandiloquence i. e. their lofty and stately Eloquence by which Artifice they thought to bring the Apostle into contempt among the people as though he had been in comparison of them a very illiterate and rude Preacher 2. In the fifth and sixth Chapters he chargeeth them with three vices 1. In that they continued the incestuous p●●son in their

Lord most unfit for so honourable and high a Calling as the Ministry of the Gospel must reckon my self a debtor both to the wise and unwise to the learned and unlearned as well to the more acute and perspicacious as to the less judicious and enquiring Christian And therefore as in duty bound must cast in my Mite into the Saints Treasury and imploy my Talent though but one and a small one as for the information of the more ignorant so also for the satisfaction of the more ingenious and learned Reader For his satisfaction therefore or at leastwise for an Essay thereunto I think it neither unnecessary nor inexpedient before I come to the words themselves to preface the subsequent Discourse with these I think convenient Prolegomena THE PROLEGOMENA TO THE Ensuing Discourse ALl I have to say in the Proem to the Text I shall reduce to these Heads following I shall endeavour to shew 1. By whom this Epistle was written 2. To whom it was written 3. Vpon what occasion the Apostle wrote this Epistle 4. What is the Argument of this Epistle 5. At what time and where this Epistle was written 1. By whom this Epistle was written The Apostle Paul a * Act. 9.15 chosen Vessel of God was the Author of this Epistle a man that was caught up to the third heaven where he heard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Montanus and the Vulgar translate arcana verba But Beza ineffabilia verba unspeakable words as our English Translators do well render such words † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est quae sando explicari à quoquam homine non possint Beza which no man can explain by speaking A man inspired with the Spirit of God as he testifies of himself in this Epistle 1 Cor. 7.40 Therefore by the inspiration of the Spirit of God he wrote this Epistle Paul and all other holy men of old that wrote the Canonical and Divine Scriptures were but Amanuenses Penmen or Secretaries to the Spirit the Spirit was the immediate Author Inditer and Composer of the Scriptures All Scripture is of Divine Inspiration * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 3.16 1 Pet. 1.21 For the Prophesie came not in old time or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliquando at any time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acti inspirati acted or moved by the Holy Ghost † D Owen expounding this Text in his Divine Original of the Scripture p. 25. One of our Worthies hath an excellent gloss upon this Text. When the Word came or rather was brought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the holy men that wrote the Scriptures it was not left to their understandings wisdomes minds memories to order dispose and give it out but they were born acted carried out by the Holy Ghost to speak deliver and write all that and nothing but that to every tittle that was so brought to them they invented not words themselves suited to the things they had learned but only expressed the words that they received And a little after he saith Not only the Doctrine they taught was the Word of Truth Truth its self Joh. 17.17 but the words whereby they taught it were words of truth from God himself c. Thus this Epistle and other sacred Scriptures being of Divine Authority and thereupon of uncontroulable Soveraignty and of Eternal Verity ought to be received and entertained of us with holy respect and reverence to be heard and read as the Oracles of God 2. To whom this Epistle was written together with a Description of Corinth This Epistle was written to the men of Corinth but more specifically the Apostle himself tells ye 1 Cor. 1.2 Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in every place call upon the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours The Corinthians were Achaians Corinthii Achaici fuerunt Corinth was a famous and rich City of Achaia not only one of the chi f but the Metropolitan or chiefest of that Region it was a City placed in an Isthmus or narrow streight going into Peloponnesus now called Morea and being scituate between * Both Poets and Geographers use to call her Corinthus Bi-maris Corinthus Achaiae Metroplis olim erat ob portuum commoditatem Emporium totius Asiae tum celeberrimum tum opulentissimum Marl. two Seas the A●gean and Ionian having fair Havens towards these two Seas a great concourse of people from many Countries resorted thither whereupon it was called Nobilissimum Emporium opibus abundans a most Noble Mart-Town overflowing with a confluence of wealth and worldly prosperity yea so famous and flourishing was this City that the Romans themselves began to suspect her greatness but the Corinthians were as insolent as the Romans were suspitious for they uncivilly abused the Roman Embassadors and cast Urine upon their heads as they passed through the † So Cicero relates it City Upon this disgrace the Romans sent Lucius Mummius then Consul who burnt the City and made it level with the ground In the burning of it so many rich and costly Images of sundry sorts of mettal were melted that thereof was found a very precious Brass called Aes Corinthium more esteemed than Silver among the Romans At last it was say some re-edified by Julius Caesar say others by Augustus Caesar because of the excellent fitness and scituation of the place it quickly encreased to its former wealth and splendour It was a place famous for the profession of Christianity but of late it fell into the hands of Turks and Infidels Anno Ch. 1451. and by them it is at this day called Corinto and Coranto To this City the Apostle Paul came from Athens Act. 18. ● where he converted to the Faith of Christ Crispus and Sosthenes two chief Rulers of the Jewish Synagogue Act. 18.8.17 and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized for the Lord had by a Vision in the night told him he had much people in that City and withall for his encouragement to preach there uncessantly and to abide there patiently The Lord bids him be not afraid 〈◊〉 8.9 but speak and hold not thy peace These words were Pillars of Support and Cordials of Comfort to his fainting heart Gods words are not empty or aiery Dictates like Vox praete●ca nihil mans a voice and no more but creating corroborating comforting soul-renewing and soul-quickning and soul-restoring and reviving precepts where when He up●●●●eth all thing by the Word o● his 〈◊〉 H●b 1.3 and in whom he pleaseth for his word is the word of his power and therefore a word with power The words that I speak s i th Christ they are spirit and they are life Joh. 6.63 Again the Lord promiseth to be with Paul for I am with thee Act.