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Title: [1818 Feb Not Paul I Argument]

Description: 1818 Feb

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch. Motives to Conversion

Ch. III

§ 9 Threats

When by this one rhetorician an intimation to any effect has been conveyed that sooner or later commonly enough immediately that it should be followed if not accompanied by an intimation to the opposite effect, is with our rhetorician /orator/ a matter /matter[?]/ almost of course: in the production of these phænomena his passion and reflective natural cast of mind /nature/ /nature/ and policy concur will be shewn in another place. a

a Ch. Paul’s Style

The threats employed have just been seen. But by these threats if taken too absolutely surmizes to the prejudice of the holy person’s disinterestedness might be formed /apt to make their appearance/. To obviate this inconvenience after the threats which occupy the first verse, come in the same ninth Chapter four verses, the object of which is to cause it to be understood that notwithstanding the plenitude of the right he has to desert[?] this particular service, yet in particular such is the sort of service that (at any rate unless some opposite necessity should supervene to do away the existing necessity, neither his mere turn of mind so devoted is his zeal nor indeed the will of God so irresistibly has the decree of God fastened upon him, will permitt to him the exercise of that right.

I. Cor. ix. 16. 17. 18 19

I. Cor. ix. 15. 16. 17. 18. 15. But I have used none of these things: {viz. of ‘carnal things’ i.e. money &c and the power of ‘reaping’ them.} Neither have I written these things that it should be so done to me’ (for that which they see him doing he insists upon it that they shall believe him when he protests he is not doing it): for it better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void’: my /his/ glorying i.e. the boasts of his contempt /disinterestedness/ of money - those boasts which he is making at the very time he is thus clamouring for it.

16. For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me: yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the Gospel is committ d unto me.

18. What is my reward then? verily that, when I preach the Gospel, I may make y e gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the Gospel.

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Title: [1818 Feb. 5 Not Paul I Argument]

Description: 1818 Feb. 5

Not Paul

I Argument

Motives to Conversion

Proofs of money craving

§. 12 Disinterestedness boasted

Phil. IV. 11 to 14

11. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

12. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

14. Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

 Enter what follows in its proper place

I. Cor. X. 33. Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the ( profit) of many, that they may be saved.

II. Cor. I 23. Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

II. Cor. XI. 9. And when I was present with you, & wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept my self from being burdensome unto you, and so, will I keep myself.

II. Cor. XII. 13. For what is it wherein you were inferior to other Churches, except ( it be) that I myself was not burthensome to you? - forgive me this wrong. With these four passages compare those quoted as above, under the head of Money craved: in short under all the heads by which the present one is preceded. See how in the same letter this man could write a thing and deny his having written it. - ‘Forgive me this wrong’: i.e. the reproach - the sarcastic reproach which I am thus casting upon you.

I Thess. II. 5. 6. 5. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

6. Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as y e Apostles of Christ.

I Thess. II. 9. For ye remember, brethren, our labour & travail: for labouring night & day, because we w d not be chargeable unto any of you we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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Title: [1818 Feb. 3 Not Paul I Argument]

Description: 1818 Feb. 3

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch. Paul’s Character

2

§. Insincerity

All things to all men &c.

All things to all men. Good for Paul, is it equally good for Peter? Oh no: here / by

this / the case is altered. That which being done by Paul is in Paul’s mouth /

declared judgment / estimation // matter of praise to Paul, being done by Peter is in

the mouth of this same Paul matter of blame and reproach to Peter. To and in his

intercourse with the Jews / Gentiles / to gain the Jews / Gentiles / he becomes as a

Jew he acknowledges / denies / the obligatoriness of the Mosaic law. To and in his

intercourse with the Gentiles / Jews / he denies / acknowledges / the obligatoriness

of that same law.

I. Cor. IX. 19. 20. 21. 22. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made

myself servant unto all that I might gain the more.

20. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews; to them that are

under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law.

21. To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but

under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

22. To the weak, became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made JB footnote at this point: ‘Note (a) is in p.

1’. [Note on f. 69] all things to all men, that I might by all means save

some.

Good all this and not only good but matter of merit and matter of merit to get money

by / be paid for in money / so long as it is by Paul that it is done. But a little

while, and according to that same Paul, we shall see it done by Peter and then we

shall see how bad it is.

Gal. II. 11. 12. 13. 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the

face, because he was to be blamed.

12. For before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles, but when

they were come he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the

circumcision―

13. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was

carried away with their dissimulation.