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; The Houſe which he had hired, as werſe 16. and 3o. ft Paul expounded the Scriptures, and by them proved our Saviour to be the Meſſiah ; # and that the Kingdom of the Mefliah, which God had promiſed, and Moſes and the Prophets had foretold, was now come : w ufing iuch Proofs and Arguments as were Cco- gent enough to prove what he affertcd; and which alſo did taroughly perſwade or pre /a1l with ſeveral of them. x Thus Paul labour:d more abundancly, 1 Cor. 15. To.
24 And y ſome * believed the things which were jpoken, and ſome believed not.
5 Thus there are different Soils into which the Word 1s caſt, 9s appears in the Parable of the Sower , Matth. 13. 19, 20, Oc. Thus Paul found by Experience what he ſays, 2 Theſ, 3. 2. That all men have not faith ; and the word preached doth not profit, unleſ; ii be mixed with faith in them that heard it, Heb. 4. 2.
25 And when they agreed not z among themſelves, they departed, after that Paul had ſpoken « one word, Well fpake the holy Ghoſt by Efaias the prophet, unto Our fathers.
z Thus Chriſt "came to ſet fire on the earth, Luke 12. 45. not that the Goſpel does this in its ſelf ; for it is the Goſpel of Peace, Eph. 6. 15. not only betwixt God and Man, but betwixt Man and Man ; and if its Precepts were obſerved, Love, Meekneſs, an! Goodneſs, wouJd banith all Harred, Pride and Contention out of the Hearts and Lives of Men; but this ariſes out of the
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liſted), yet a neceſſity was laid upon him, and a woe unto him if he did not preach the Goſpel ; as 1 Cor. g. 16. which may abundantly ex- cuſe and juſtifie him.
3e Preaching # the kingdom of God, and teaching .thoſe & things which concernthe Lord Jeſus Chritt, with all confidence, ] no man forbidding him.
; The Goſpel is ſo called ; as alſo Pazl preached that Kingd:1: of God which is to come atthe end of the World, which falls in with the Subje& he was ſo often upon, concerning the Reſurre- &tion ; which if Men did but beheve effectually, all the other ends of Preaching would be ealily obtained. & Chriſt's Precepts and Miracles, his Death and Reſurredtion. / God, who purs Bounds to the raging Sea, had ſtopped the Jews Malice, and bid- den it go no further ; and he who delivered Daniel! from the Lyons, had delivered Paul from Nero, and would have delivered him, had not his Death been more for the Glory of God, and the good of Paul himſelf, than his Life ; which at laſt he offered in Confirmation of the Truths which he had preach'd, -which he foreſaw, 2 Tim. 4. 6. and as Euſebins ſays, came to paſs according=
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H E Pen man of this Epiftle, viz. Paul, was ſo called (as ſome think) becauſe he was Iittle or low of Statur, -
Others ſuppoſe he had this Name firſt given him upon the Converting of Sergius Paulus the Deputy ; of which ſee Ats 13. and Hierom. Com. in Ep. ad Philem. But ovhers are of Opinion, That his Name was not changed 4; al and that he had two Names, as all thiſe Jews had, who were Freemen of Rome, The Text in Acts 13. g. duh 7k this Opinion; there you read of Saul, wbo was alſo called Paul, (ſo John was Surnamed, or alſo called Mark, Ag, 12. 12, 25.) And becauſe he was the Apoſtle of the Gentiles, and his Work lay moſtly amongſt them ;, he wa; cal; a lat altogether by his Skrname, or Roman Title. Fe : ; As tothe Ocder of it : All are agreed, That it was not 2written as it 1s placed in our Bibles : That the Epiſtles 4 th Theſſalonians, to the Corinthians, and other of his Epifthes, were written before this : And the Reaſon why it is lac before the other Epiſtles, is, Becauſe of the Dignity of the Romans, to whom it was directed; Rome being, ,; ,, time the T-nperial City : Or, Becauſe of the Prolixity and Largeneſs of it, this being one of the longe#t of all th Epittles : Or, Becauſe of the Excellency and Fulnels of it ? ſo Full and Excellent is this Epitle, that ſom hav called it the Marrow of Divinity. Chryſoſtom had ſuch an eſteem of it, that he cauſed it to be Read to him wit every Week, Melancthon called it the Confeflion of the Churches 3 be 3s re orted to have gone over it Ten (rum times in his ordinary Ledures. - My. Perkins adviſeth, in the Reading of the Scriptures to begin with the Goſpel o John, and this Epitle ro the Romans, as being the Keys of the New Teſtament. ; ;
The SubjeCt-matter cf i ſeems to be much the (ame with the Epiſtle to the Galatians. The body of thi, Evitl