1 Corinthians 1

This is that Christ prayed so heartily for (John 17:21): That they all may be one. Christians should be one, 1. in judgment; the Apostle exhorts to be all of one mind (1 Corinthians 1:10). How sad is it to see religion wearing a coat of diverse colors, to see Christians of so ma…

Branch 4. See the happy condition of the children of God, they have Christ to be their Prophet (Isaiah 54:13): All your children shall be taught of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:30): He is made to us wisdom. One man cannot see by another's eye; but believers see with Christ's eyes,…

This is the name whereby you shall be called, Jehovah Tzidkennu, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (1 Corinthians 1:30) He is made to us righteousness. This righteousness of Christ which does justify us, is a better righteousness than the angels; theirs is the righteousness of creatur…

In the text we are kept by the power of God to salvation; every person in the Trinity has a hand in making a believer persevere. God the Father establishes (2 Corinthians 1:21), God the Son confirms (1 Corinthians 1:8), God the Holy Ghost seals (Ephesians 1:13), so that it is th…

What is the weak breath of a man to convert a soul? It is like whispering in the ears of a dead man; this is foolishness in the eye of the world: but the Lord loves to show his wisdom by that which seems folly (1 Corinthians 1:27). He has chosen the foolish things of the world t…

Though God could work grace immediately by his Spirit, or by the ministry of angels from heaven, yet he chooses to work by the word preached; this is the usual means by which he sets up the kingdom of grace in the heart. And the reason is, because he has put his divine sanction…

Herein appears the distinguishing love of Christ, that the virtue of his death should reach some and not others. (1 Corinthians 1:26) Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. That Christ should pass by many of birth and parts, and that the l…

And Saint Augustine, in his book against Pelagius, affirms, that it has been the custom of the church in all ages to baptize infants: indeed, it was an apostolical practice. Saint Paul affirms, that he baptized the whole house of Stephanas (1 Corinthians 1:16). And as you have s…

Why do many apostatize and fall away, but because they did never sit down and count the cost. 2. If we would hold out to the kingdom, let us cherish the grace of faith (1 Corinthians 1:24): By faith you stand. Faith, like Hercules' club, beats down all oppositions before it; it…

And thus by this Covenant, the righteousness of Christ came to be, not only equivalent in virtue and worth, but the very actual price of the ransom of sinners (1 Timothy 2:6). Who gave himself a ransom: and Christ not only virtually but actually, properly, and according to Coven…

Quest. 19. What is an instituted Church of the Gospel? A society of persons, called out of the world, or their natural worldly state, by the administration of the Word and Spirit, to the obedience of the faith, or the knowledge and worship of God in Christ, joined together in an…

Answ. Professing believers, if not baptized in their infancy, and their infant seed. Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38, 39; Acts 16:33; 1 Corinthians 1:16; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Colossians 2:12, 13; with Genesis 17:10, 11, 12. Quest. 39. Where, and to whom, is the ordinance of the Lord's S…

What righteousness is it then? That perfect righteousness whereby we are justified is that righteousness which was wrought by Christ, and inherent in his person (Isaiah 45:24, 25; Jeremiah 23:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 5:18, 19). How comes the righteousnes…

Q. But may not a true believer lose his faith, and so lose all these benefits that come by faith in this life, and fall short of eternal glory in the life to come? A. If he should finally lose his faith, it would be so indeed; but God that of his grace has wrought this faith in…

Thus Jeremiah would needs be reasoning with God about his dispensations toward wicked men (chapter 12:1-2) and Job about his dealings with himself (chapter 13:3). And reason being likewise the supreme principle in us by nature and our highest distinction as we are men — therefor…

His name likewise has an all-sufficiency in it to supply all our wants and desires and satisfy all scruples. For example, the name of his mentioned by the prophet Isaiah in chapter 9:6, compared with 1 Corinthians 1, last verse: Would we have peace of conscience and the guilt of…

Second, one who does not daily above all things directly and immediately aim at and seek out Christ's righteousness — making it the chief focus of his thoughts, prayers, and business, and being restless without it — still rests in his own. For when Paul had given up his claim in…

Though a Mother should forget her Child, yet he will not forget them, for he has graven them upon the palm of his hand (Isaiah 49:15-16). Therefore he will confirm them to the end (1 Corinthians 1:8), and by his power keep them to salvation (1 Peter 1:5). He will love them const…

Jeremiah 32:40: I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, and I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me. Again, 1 Corinthians 1:8–9: God shall confirm you to the end blameless: God is faithful…

Our calling is to profess the Gospel and religion of Christ; now to many it is a reproach and ignominy: but we must learn this special lesson by the example of these men; that howsoever the world judge of Christ and his religion, yet we having entered into this holy profession,…

There is nothing more evident than that all true believers, and all those who upon their profession are presumed so to be, are in the New Testament styled Saints. For [in non-Latin alphabet] are the same with [in non-Latin alphabet] (Romans 1:7), [in non-Latin alphabet] (Hebrews…

Not a temporary righteousness suited to the age of the Church under the Old Covenant, which is often said to be everlasting in a limited sense; but that which was for all ages to make the Church blessed to eternity. So is he made to us of God righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:30).…

And those who like not God's Covenant on those terms, as none do by nature, will eternally fall short of the grace of it. Hereby all glorying, and all boasting in ourselves is excluded, which was that which God aimed at in the contrivance and establishment of this Covenant (Roma…

For the principles of the doctrine of Christ indefinitely, must include all, at least the most principal of those which are so: [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] the word; that is, the Word Preached. So [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] is frequently used (1 Corinthians 1:18). And the name Chri…

Christ himself with all the grace and mercy we have by him, is from the free love and will of God. So is our election (Ephesians 1:4, 5), our vocation (1 Corinthians 1:26, 27), our regeneration (John 1:13; James 1:18), our recovery from sin (Hosea 14:4). So is our peace and all…

That the Lord Christ as Mediator, and in the discharge of his office, is the wisdom of God and the power of God. So says our Apostle; Christ crucified is to them that believe the power of God and the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:23, 24). His death is both an effect of divine p…

[⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], is to rest in, to approve, to delight in, to be pleased with: so is it always used in the New Testament, whether spoken of God or men. See (Matthew 3:17), Chap. 12:18, Chap. 17:5, (Luke 3:22), Chap. 12:32, (Romans 15:26, 27), (1 Corinthians 1:21), Ch…

Ans. Neither does this make against the Baptism of the children in question; forasmuch as their Parents and they are under the Promise of God, I will be a God to you, and to your seed in their generations: and the Parents being qualified as in the fifth Proposition, cannot be de…

Saint Luke and Saint Paul set out the faithful servants of God by this mark, Acts 9:14. He has authority to bind all that call on your name. 1 Corinthians 1:2. To them that are sanctified by Jesus Christ, saints by calling, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…

In whom all have sinned. If the head plot treason, all the body is guilty; but Christ is made to us righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:30). Indeed it is this righteousness only, in which we can stand before the justice of God (Jeremiah 23:6).

From where note, that it is the condition of the people of God to be a called people; this is first in their description: see (Romans 1:6): Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ. So the Corinthians are said to be Saints by calling (1 Corinthians 1:2), and (Hebrews 3…

We hold and believe that the obedience of Christ is imputed to us even for our righteousness before God. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:30: Christ is made unto us of God wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Hence I reason thus: if Christ is both our sanctificatio…

And (chapter 3): Neither working anything, nor repaying the like, are they justified by faith alone through the gift of God. And (1 Corinthians 1): This is appointed of God that whoever believes in Christ, shall be saved without any work by faith alone, freely receiving remissio…

As Machiavel is said to have told the Confessor sent to him by the Duke of Florence, when he was upon his sick bed: he dreamt that he was in Heaven, and that there he saw many poor unlearned Monks and others of mean capacity and quality; and that he had been in Hell, and there s…

The young man in the Gospel went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions: therefore, says Christ, a rich man can hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 1 Corinthians 1:26: For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men, after the flesh, not many mighty, no…

And Peter had in his eye Christ's example, and pointed them thereunto, who at his death committed his separate soul or spirit into the hands of God (Luke 23:46) and the word commit is one and the same in both these places: only there is this difference, that whereas Christ says,…

It is true, the Scripture speaks honourably of the Cross of Christ, God forbid, (says Paul) that I should glory in any thing save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified to me, and I to the World: but by the Cross of Christ is meant the death of Chr…

He sends not the Gospel till reason was nonplussed, and that the world in that highest wisdom it had at that time attained to, was not able to arrive at the knowledge of God. After that the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them…

Saints (Psalm 50:5, 16, 17). [Called to fellowship with Christ] so (1 Corinthians 1:9) else if they be not united to Christ by faith, they are not fit materials for such a building as a Church of God, which is the house of the living God (Ephesians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Philip…

They can not find out and discover Hereticks, how shall they excommunicate them? It is answered that this evill proceedeth from another, namely that there is too much sloth and oversight in the admission of such as are to be members of a Congregation, and that they would be fit…

Saint Luke and Saint Paul set out the faithful servants of God by this note. (Acts 9:14) He has authority to bind all that call on your name; (1 Corinthians 1:2) to them that are sanctified by Jesus Christ, saints by calling, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Chri…

The insufficiency of human abilities to bring to pass any such happy change in the world as is foretold, or to afford any remedy to mankind, from such miseries as have been mention'd, does now remarkably appear. Those observations of the Apostle (1 Corinthians 1), the world by w…

Very good! It is indisputably evident, that Paul wrote his second Epistle to the Church of Corinth, and all the rest of Achaia, for he expressly affirms himself so to do, and for the first Epistle it is directed not only to the Church of Corinth (1 Corinthians 1:2), but also, [i…

And so those terms, as far as the sacred Scripture is concerned, are unwritten (agrapha). Indeed, evangelical doctrine is called "the word of life" (Philippians 2:16), "the word of the cross" (1 Corinthians 1:18), "the word of faith" (1 Timothy 4:6), "the word of Christ" (Coloss…

The combined genius of the Greeks and Latins claims this honor for itself. That this progress of philosophy had looked to the peak of the fullness of time, the apostle teaches us at 1 Corinthians 1:21: "For since," he says, "in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not…

When, moreover, the wretched, lost, weary, and accursed behold Him lifted up on high, as it were "from the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 45:22), and see that propitiation has been set forth in His blood for the declaration of God's righteousness in the forgiveness of sins (Romans 3…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

What sort of persons they gathered into Christ's fold they themselves everywhere teach. They were born again, called with a holy and effectual calling, godly, faithful, holy, washed, justified, separated from the world and from all evil, children of God, instructed and anointed…

He that loves father and mother more than me (Matthew 10:37). So we must desire more the presence of God in the life to come, than his favor in this life (1 Corinthians 1:7). And love, and reverence more the teaching Elders, than governing only (1 Timothy 5:17), etc.

3. He stands as the great end of preaching, not only that hearers may have Him known in their judgments, but may have Him high in their hearts and affections (2 Corinthians 3:4), We preach not ourselves, that is, not only do we not preach ourselves as the subject, but we preach…