An Exposition of Pauls Epistles, Letter 2
The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, Analytically expounded.
The Contents of the Epistle.
COrinth is a famous Mart-Town of Achaia, in the narrow straight of Peloponnesus, situate between the Egean and Ionian Seas, in which City the Apostle taught a year and half, where hee founded a Church with great difficulty. This Church Satan endeavoured by many waies to rend, infect, and corrupt, of which crafts of Satan the Apostle being assured, that hee might produce a seasonable remedy to so great evils, hee writes this Epistle to the Corinthians.
The heads of this Epistle are ten. The first is concerning the removing of Schism, which arose amongst them, by the vain kind of preaching of their Teachers, and to that end, hee largely handles the right manner of preaching the Gospel, Chap. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Secondly, Concerning the excommunication of the incestuous person, Chap. 5.
The third, about the avoiding of strifes, with which they vexed one another even before Infidel Iudges.
The fourth, of keeping chastity, or avoiding fornication, Chap. 6.
The fifth, of prudence to bee used in cases of marriage and single life, and secular imployments, Chap. 7.
The sixth, of avoiding things dedicated to Idols, Chap. 8, 9, 10.
The seventh, of the order, and decency to bee observed in the worship of God, and chiefly in the Supper of the Lord, Chap. 11.
The eighth, of the right use of spiritual gifts, Chap. 12, 13, 14.
The ninth, of the certainty of the resurrection to come, which some amongst them called in question, Chap. 15.
The tenth, of charitable contribution to bee collected, for the relief of the Saints in Judea▪ Chap. 16.