Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
Ver. 2. Called to be saints] i.e. Either such as are sanctified by habitual infusion, or such as are sanctified by baptismal profession only, that are in covenant with God by sacrifice,Psalms 50:5, and are in Christ, though they bear no fruit, John 15:2. These two sorts of saints make up a true visible Church.
With all that in every place] The apostles then wrote not their Epistles for the particular uses of those times only, as the Jesuits will have it.