17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.



Ver. 17. I have therefore, &c.] So have all God’s faithful ministers at this day against the contempts and contumelies cast upon them by the mad world, ever beside itself in point of salvation. There is a pamphlet lately published that sticks not to make that sacred and tremendous function of the ministry to be as mere an imposture, as very a mystery of iniquity, as arrant a fraud, as the Papacy itself. (The Compas. Samaritan.)