2 Corinthians 2

2 Corinthians 2:1

I In heavinesse,] bringing you cause of griefe by my severitie and censures.

2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I,] for causing this griefe in you, I doe conceave it yet greater in my selfe by reason of your errors; and there is bu one only way to comfort me, namely your amendment.

2 Corinthians 2:3

This same,] namely in the contents of my former Epistle I should have,] least my griefe for your errors, might bee redoubled by your continuance and impenitencie That my joy,]that the conjunction of our soules is such, that you rejoyce at all that which I rejoyce at, and likewise are sorry for all I am sorry for.

2 Corinthians 2:4

Affliction,] for your disorders; and for being forced to deale severely with you Not that yee,] mine ayme hath not beene to afflict you; as bearing you a〈…〉 hatred or evill will: but rather to give you a certaine proofe of my charitie, by gaining your salvation through repentance.

2 Corinthians 2:5

If any,] Namey tht incestuous person particularly, 1 Corinthians 5:1 Have caused giefe,] have bin the cause of your, and my griefe together He hah not,] I make no reckoning of the griefe which I have receaved thereby, in rspect of that which my censure have brouht upon you. Whereof hee hath beene the cause But in part,] this is a mitigation of his speech, as if he should say, I will ot burthen him, with all the cause of the displeasure which you have received, I doe take part of it upon my selfe.

2 Corinthians 2:6

To such a man,] it appeares that the Church of Corinth had begun to proceed against the incestuous man, by grave censures, and adraonitions, before they went on to excommunication, as the Apostle had appointed, 1 Corinthians 5:5. And these tryalls having brought forth serious repentance in him, it is likely that the Apostle was demanded whither that notwithstanding his said repentance, he were to be cut off from the Church: and he answereth, no Was inflicted of,] that is to say publikely, in the face of the whole Church, which also gave a generall assent, and yeelded obedience unto it. See Matth. 18. 17 1 Timothy 5:20.

2 Corinthians 2:7

Contrariwise,] so far am I from being willing to have him excommunicate Swallowed up,] that is to say utterly sunck in dispaire.

2 Corinthians 2:8

Consirme,] to receave him into the peace and charitie of the Church, and seale him his reconciliation, by the communion of the Sacrament of the holy Supper, by payers, &c. and by all particulas offices of charitie.

2 Corinthians 2:9

Did I write.] in my former Epistle Obedent,] to the Holy Ghost speaking by mee In all things,] namely in amending the faults in your manner of living, as well as in receaving pure doctrine, in seperating your selves from evill livers, as in abstayning from evill doing your selves in using severitie against enormious scandalous persons, as in shewing clemencie, towards those who are weak and penitent.

2 Corinthians 2:10

To whom,] as his will was that the Corinthians should with him condemne the incestuous man, 1 Corinthians 5:4. so he now will have the pardon granted by common advice: offering himselfe thorow an humble modestie to subscribe to what they should first judge to bee reasonable If I so gave,] his meaning seemes to be. If in the beginning of your Church, before the order of its government was well established, I have at any time alone wthout any others, receaved some repentant sinner to mercie; I have not done it thorow any ambition, but in meee charitie towards you In the person,] the Italian hath it, In the sight,] that is to say, I call the Lord to witnesse for it.

2 Corinthians 2:11

Lest Satan,] Least we give him occasion by any immoderate rigor of ours, to take away, or precipitate any member of the Church: to make the Gospell and the Ministers thereof odions: and to corrupt the holy use of discipline, whch consist in the temperature of charitie, and the end whereof is nothing but the saving of sinners:

2 Corinthians 2:12

A doore,] namely an occasion of advancing Gods work, by his word and vertue.

2 Corinthians 2:13

Titus,] whom Paul had sent to Corinth to informe himsolfe truely of the state of that Church, and was not as yet returned againe, as hee did afterwards, 2 Corinthians 7:6 Of them,] namely of the Church of Trout.

2 Corinthians 2:14

Causeth us to,] maketh our Ministery glorious, by the power of Christ in new conquests and converting of Nations, overcomming all oppositi¦ens. Now hee seemes to intimate that this voyage into Macedonia: which hee undertooke beyond his intent (he intending rather to have gone to Corinth if he had beene certified what state they were in) had a happie issue and event.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are,] wee doe propound Christs pure doctrine not infected with any false-hood, vicious affection, or end Unto God,] that is to say divinely according to God, and according to the understanding which hee granteth his beleevers by his spirit Others as God seeth it and judgeth of it. Or to his glory, and for his service In them that are,] the Gospell is preached indifferently to all manner of persons whatsoever; but it works in them very differently; for being receaved by beleevers, it bringeth forth life and salvation, having all the causes thereof in it selfe, and being rejected by unbeleevers, and rebellious persons, it is to them a cause of greater condemnation, and makes their perdition inevitable; according to their sentence which is irrevocable. See Luke 2:34. Iohn 9. 39. 1 Peter 〈◊〉 ver. 7.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For wee,] he gives a reason for what hee had said, ver. 15. of the sweete Saviour of his Aposleship Corrupt,] the Greeke word is taken, from higglers, Vintners, and Wine Merchants, who adulterate wines and other wares In the sight,] taking God continually for a witnesse and judge of our actions In Christ,] in the power of Christ being alwayes guided by his spirit, in whose communion we live; and who worketh in us.