And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Ver. 11. Not only so] Not in tribulation only do we glory, as Rom 5:3 but in the whole course of our lives. Yet not without some damps and dumps, while here. While I live (saith Rollec) I never look to see perfect reformation in the Church, or feel perfect ravishing joys in mine heart. Here Christ comes to his Spouse as a wooer only, and gives her no more than the prelibations and foretastes of his love, as a bunch of the grapes of Canaan.