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not in Tables of Stone, but in fleshly Tables of the Heart.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"We must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"The Glorious Company which the souls of Believers do immediatly pass into, is the Company of God and Christ in his Glory, as also the company of Angels and souls of other Saints in their Glory, Therefore we are always confident, knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by Faith, not by sight;) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:6–8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"54","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/54","segments":[{"text":"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"For the Children ought not to lay up for the Parents, but the Parents for the Children.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:14"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"His letters (say they) are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:10"]},{"text":"Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"The sins of Ministers against their people are, 1. Want of sincere and tender love to their Souls, seeking more to receive earthly gain from them, than to do any good unto them, I seek not yours, but you,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:14"]},{"text":"3. Unwatchfulness over them, unprofitableness in their discourse amongst them, unsuitableness of Conversation unto their Doctrine and Profession, unteaching that by their Lives which they Teach in their Pulpits. 4. Corrupting the Word they preach, and infecting the minds of their people with Erronious Opinions, We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 2:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Having therefore these promises (dearly beloved) let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:1"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"For our rejoycing is this, that in simplicity and Godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the Grace of God, we have had our conversation in the World.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"2. By speaking sometimes in commendation of our selves, when there is need only, and that very sparingly, modestly, humbly and willingly, alwayes abasing our selves and giving God all the glory for any thing in our selves which is praise-worthy. I am become a fool in glorying, ye have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended of you: For in nothing am I behind the very chiefest Apostles, though I be nothing.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:11"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"5. By grieving at their faults which expose them unto disgrace, with desires and endeavours to promote their amendment and the recovery of their reputation. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Lest there be debates, envyings, back-bitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"3. By readiness to distribute to the necessities of others, which is accompanied with Gods love, and blessing, who giveth the greatest comfort in these things unto such, God loveth a chearful giver: And God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good work.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 9:7–8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"The Saints on Earth do keep the Commandments of God sincerely, but not perfectly, For our rejoycing is this, the testimony of our conscience that in Godly sincerity we have had our conversation in this World,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"For Godly sorrow worketh Repentance unto Salvation, not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"We can truly apprehend pardoning mercy in God only through Christ, because God is so infinitely just and Jealous, and a consuming fire unto sinners out of Christ, and he is reconciliable to sinners, only through his Son, who hath given Satisfaction unto his Justice for sin: All things are of God, who hath reconciled us unto himself, by Jesus Christ.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"The Word doth build up the Saints in holiness, as it is a means to work them into a greater conformity unto the image of God, and to cause an increase of every grace in them. We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:18"]},{"text":"3. As it is a means of pulling down strong holds in the soul, and more and more subjugating and subduing all thoughts and affections unto the obedience of Christ. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:4–5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"The Word is not effectual unto Salvation by any vertue or power in it self, but by the operation of the spirit of God, in and by the Word. Who hath also made us able Ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"2. In our Faith to apply Christ and feed upon him, and so to draw vertue and spiritual nourishment from him, Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/106","segments":[{"text":"There was given me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Sathan to buffet me; For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me; And he said unto me, my Grace is sufficient for thee.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:7–9"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"3. In justification, God accepteth us, as Righteous in his sight.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:21"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"2. Faith to feed upon him.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Herein we labor, that whether present or absent we may be accepted of the Lord,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"And we are bless’d with the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Touch not the unclean thing,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Serpent beguiled Eve through his Subtilty,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 11:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the God of this World hath blinded their Minds,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"No. For we are not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For what Communion has Light with Darkness?","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God was in Christ, reconciling the World unto himself,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strong Holds,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Bringing into Captivity every thought to the Obedience of Christ,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. Tho’ he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 8:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he made him Sin for us who knew no Sin,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was crucified through Weakness, but he lived by the Power of God,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"No. For to some it is a Savour of Death unto Death,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He hath given the Earnest of the Spirit in our Hearts,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he hath wrought us for the self-same thing,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I have espoused you to one Husband,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 11:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He gives the light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"No. For we are call’d into a professed Subjection to the Gospel of Christ,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 9:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"No. For we are not sufficient of our selves,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we are made the Righteousness of God in him,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I will be a Father to you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters, saith the Lord Almighty,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If any Man be in Christ he is a new Creature,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Our rejoicing is this, the Testimony of our Conscience,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"No. For when we are absent from the Body, we are present with the Lord,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We have a House not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we look not at the Things that are seen, but at the Things that are not seen,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"41","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/41","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Knowing the Terror of the Lord we perswade Men,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Live in Peace, and the God of Love and Peace shall be with you,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"No. For though we have known Christ after the Flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"No. For they receive the Grace of God in vain,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/63","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Providing for honest Things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but in the sight of Men,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 8:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Sorrow of the World worketh Death,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We must cleanse our selves from all Filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He knew no Sin,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Godly Sorrow worketh Repentance unto Salvation,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye sorrowed according to God,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 7:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"No. The Letter Kills, the Spirit gives Life,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is mighty through God to the pulling down of strong Holds,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 10:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"No. For what concord hath Christ with Belial?","proofs":["2 Corinthians 6:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Examine your selves whether ye be in the Faith,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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I pray to God that ye do no Evil,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 13:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/106","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He that has deliver’d, doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 1:10"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 5:18"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"But first gave their own selves unto the Lord,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 8:5"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"For the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:3"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"We use 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Men destitute of supernatural Revelation cannot know their own corruption and misery, by the first Adam, nor the remedy which is offered by Christ, the second Adam. They are without GOD, without Hope, without the Promises, without the Church, and covenant of God: and the mysteries of Faith are hid, and unknown to them allanerly, that perish, and are lost,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 4:3"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"(9.) Because, the spirits cannot be known, by any other Rule, than by the written Word. It is certain, that the Devil transforms himself into an Angel of light,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 11:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"(2.) 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