CHAP. IL. alſo amongſt the Prophets > And we may ſay, with great Aftonilt ment, Is Sazl alſo amongſt the Apoſtles ? He that a little before Paul ſets forth his, Office, calling and Dofrine of the Perſon of had ſeen him doing what he is recorded to have done, A#: Chriſt, 1=——6, His Salutation : He commends their Faith : | 10, 11. would never have dream'd of any ſuch thing, c Eit:et Defireth to come to them, 7 — 15, That his Goſpel is the Power | from his Mothers Womb, in the purpoſe of Gad, vid wy f of God : This proved by Scripture : The true Dofrine of Juſtifica- | 'S- ſo Jeremiah of old, Jer. 1. 5. Or elle it way have reſpe0 rion, 16, 17. Gods Wrath and Judgments evidence men to be | © 4s 13. 2. where the Holy Ghoſt, did aQually order te finners, and guilty, 18. The fins of the Gentiles manifeſt ; ſhould be ſeparated for the Work io which he had called him. The fach as ſuppreſſing their Light, and abuſing thiir knowledge of God | Greek Word in both places is the ſame. Or elſe it may 1&- unto Idolatry, 19 —— 23. For theſe Sins they were given over un- ſpect the more immediate Commiſſion he had from Chriſt him :0 a perverſe Senſe and abominable Luſfls, 29— 31, and wers | 1<1f, Afr 9. 15. and As 26, 16, 17, 18. Some think he alludes felf-coudenmed, 32. = to the name of Phariſce, which is from Separating: When he was | a Phariſce, he was ſeparated to the Law of God; and now being I PP a ſervant a of Jeſus Chriſt, * called þ to be | * Chriſtian, he was ſeparated to the Goſpel] of ey _ an Apoltle ſeparated c unto 4 the poſpel of to the Preaching and Publiſhing of it, e The Go ey _ God D go'p times called the Goſpel of God, as in this place ; and omerume __ 1.1. the Goſpel of Chriſt; ſo in the 16. wer. of this Chapter, it s A Servant of Jeſus Chriſt is a higher Title, than Monarch | ſaid to be the Goſpel of God, becauſe He is the Author of it; of the World. Several great Emperors ſti'd themſelves Chriſts | 'tis not a Humane Invention : And it is ſaid to be the Goſpel 0 Y v5 wh He ſo calls PR 1%: peſen __ = his ren Chriſt, becauſe He is the Matter and Subjett of it. wich was common with him to all true riſtians; orellſe in Ig FEE ; bie nro-4 reipe& of his Oiſice. Of old, they who were in great Offices, 2 (Which he had l promis d f before 4 bj h1s pro j were called the Servants of God, wid. ofb. x. 1. Nehem. 1. 6. phets 4 in the holy ſcriptures) 7. Pſal. 132. 10, Orelfc in reſpett of his ſingular and miraculous | f The meaning is not, that the Hiſtory of the Goſpel was Pr Converſion ; by reaſon of which, he thought himſelf ſo obliged | mis'd by the Prophers, but that Jefus Chriſt, with all his Benet to Chriſt, that he wholly addifted or devoted himſelf to his | (which is the dire& ſubje& of the Goſpel-Hiſtory and Revelation) Service, 6 Appointed to that High Office, by the immediate | was promis'd or fore-ſhewn by them. g This Word is added | Call of Chriſt himfc]F, wid, Gal, 1, 1. Tir. r, 3. The Hiſtory | prevent the imputation of Novelty, 9. 4. Let none object nf of this Cal) you have in At; g. 15, Two things are couch'd in | lay, the Goſpel is a new and "or IRA Do&rine ; for it Ws yo this Phraſe, «. T hat he did nor take this Honour to himlieif, but} mis'd or foretold of old by all the Prophets which have hoy Was thereunto appointed and calied of God. 2. That this Apo-i ſince the World began, wid. Luke 1. 70+ h By Prophets Notica! Dignity was not by any deſert of his but by Grace only, | may underſtand, not only thoſe that were commonly o_—_ __ the free Gizt of Him that calleth, It was formerly matter | with that Title; but all thoſe alſo whom God condelcend-d l 0; Amuntion, and ſo it became a proverb in 1/rael, & Saul| converſe with, in a familiar manner, 1evcaling bis a”
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