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the sealing all benefits thereof unto true Believers, their Spiritual nourishment & growth in him, their further engagement in, and to, all duties which they owe unto him; and, to be a bond, and pledge of their Communion with him, and with each other, as members of his mystical Body.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:13"]}]},{"document":"standard1660","id":"15.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/standard1660/paragraphs/15.1","segments":[{"text":"seeking more after theirs, than them, expresly contrary to the practise of the Ministers of old, who said, we seek not yours, but you.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:14"]}]},{"document":"bc1695","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"or support and deliver us when we are tempted.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:8"]}]},{"document":"bc1695-modernized","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695-modernized/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"or support and deliver us when we are tempted.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:8"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"125","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/125","segments":[{"text":"Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:14"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"144","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/144","segments":[{"text":"sorrowing for,","proofs":["12:21"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"and such as we stand especially related and engaged unto;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:15"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"159","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/159","segments":[{"text":"and the souls of his people;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:15"]},{"text":"edification,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:19"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"195","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/195","segments":[{"text":"and restrain Satan,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:7–8"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"125","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/125","segments":[{"text":"Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:14"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"144","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/144","segments":[{"text":"sorrowing for,","proofs":["12:21"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"and such as we stand especially related and engaged unto;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:15"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"159","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/159","segments":[{"text":"and the souls of his people;","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:15"]},{"text":"edification,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:19"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"195","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/195","segments":[{"text":"and restrain Satan,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:7–8"]}]},{"document":"wsc","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/wsc/questions/106","segments":[{"text":"or support and deliver us when we are tempted.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:7–8"]}]},{"document":"wsc-modernized","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/wsc-modernized/questions/106","segments":[{"text":"or support and deliver us when we are tempted.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:7–8"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/106","segments":[{"text":"If it please God to suffer us to be tempted either way, then that he would support","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:8–9"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"It forbids all whisperings and back-bitings of others secretly,","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:20"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"99","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/99","segments":[{"text":"But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.","proofs":["2 Corinthians 12:9"]}]},{"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":"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"]}]},{"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":"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":"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":"henry1703","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/106","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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