ſeems to be this, The Saints of Old have endured ail rrinney « Sufferings, and yet were not Separated from the Love of : fore ſuch Sufferings cannot ſeparate them now. # Nor for our 11:5 ſake, bur for Chriſt's, or for Righteoviſneſs fake, Mar. 5. 10. and "6 SY 10, 18. 39. 1 Pc. 3.14, u How could they fay this* Killing ralces Wy" away all Complainiag, and makes the Parties jo dealt with, pable of faying, how it 1s with them. This Expreition Notes
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reckon they have us az Command, and can cur us of vhen they lift. Or rather thus, They make noreckoning of our {2eftruftion ; they makeno more of killing Us, than 3utchers do of kil.ing Sh2p : Our Death is very cheap intheir account, P/a!. 44. 11, 12. tlere let me inſert a Tragical Story of the Chriſtians of Cali that ſuffered Perſecution, 4nno 1560. They were all ſhurup in' one Houſe together, as in a Sheeptold : An Executioner comes in, and 9 among them takes one, and blind-folds him with a MutHcr abour his Eyes, and 1o leadeth him forth to a larger Plice, where he Commandeti him to Kneel down ; which being done, he currerh his Throat, and fo leaveth him half Dead; and taking his Butchers Knife and Muffler, all of gore Blood, he cometh again to the reſt, and ſo leading them one after another, he Difpatcheth them to the number of Eighty Eight, no otherwiſe than a Butcher doth his Sheep. Fox his 42. & Monnm,
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The Devil aims in all the Sufferings of God's Children, to Draw them off from Chriſt, to make them Murmur, Deſpair, &c. But in this he is defeated, and diſappointed ; for God Infpires his Chil- dren with ſuch a Generous and Noble Spir:r, that Sufferings abate not their Zeal and Patience, bur rather increaſe it. We Chriſtians laugh at your Cruelty, and grow the more reſolute, ſaid one of Julian's Nobles to him . @ A ſhort Deſcription of Chriſt together with a Reaſon of a Chriſtians Succeſs. ' he conqueſt he hath over Sin and over Sufferings alſo, isnot from himielf, or his own Strength, bur from Chriſt, &c. wid. chap. 7. 24, 25. 1 Cor. i5. 57. 2 Cor. 2. I4, 2 Tm,4.17.
38 For I am perſwaded b; that neither death, nor lifec, nor angels 4, nor * principalities, nor powers e, nor * Eph. 2. things preſent, nor things to come f, 21. and 6,
b Or, 1 am fully aſſured, not by any iſpecial Revelation, but by the ſame Spirit of Faith, which is common to all B:{:evers, 2 Cor. 4-13. C£#.e. Neither fear of d-ath, nor hope of life, d The Evil Angels; forthe Good Angels would not attempt theScparating us from the lowe of Chriſt. There are ſome, that think rhe Good Angels to be alſo here intended ; and they underſtand it by way of Suppoſition. 9 4. If they ſhould endeavour ſuch a thins, they would never Effee&t it ; and thus they make . the Apoſtle here to Argue, as he doth in another Place, Gal. 1.8. e Some would have the Evil Angels to be here intended, and the Good Angels in what went before ; in Col. 2. 15 they are thus termed : But others, | by Principalities and Powers, do rather underſtand Perfecuting | Princes, and Potentates. fz. e. The Evils and Pretſures thar arc In upon us now or that ſhall be upon us hereafter. He makes no men« | tion of the things paſt, for they are overcome already. ;
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* © Neither the Feigh:h of honour, ahd worldly Advance- micnt nor the d-p25 of Ditſgrace, and worldly Abaſement. , Some the beirbih and depth for a compreheniive Expreſſion, which the Scripture uſeth when he takes in 41/, and leaves nothing out. þ This is added to the reſt, as an ec. at the end of a Sentence, and to ſupply whatever our Fancies might, in this caſe frame ro themſelves. Or the Apoſtle here makes an end of his Induttion ; and becauſe it had been endleſs to reckon up all the Creatures, he cloſeth in this manner; 1f there be any other creature. i Which he bears to us, as Members of Chriff, and are by Faith United to Him, vid. v. 35. and notes thre.
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The Ap:Riles Sorrow for the Jews: thiir privileges, 1—5. God's promiſe flands good notwithſtanding the rejefion of the Jews, being made to @ Spiritual Seed: nut to the Children of the flcſh but of the promiſe : this proved in Iſaac, and Jacob: Elau, bring rejeftea, 6 —— 13. God windicated herein: by his words ro Moles, and the Example ef Pharaoh, and Similitude of a poter, 14-—— 21. for the manifeſtation of his "nſtice and power on the reprobatcs , and mercy on the Ele : both Jews and Gentiles, 22— 21, of the calling of the Gentiles and vejeRion of the Jews the Scriptures foretold, 25-— 29, the Reaſon why the Gentiles obtained Righteouſneſs by the Meſſiah and the Tews were eſtranged from it ; ſhewn ous of the Propicts, 39 — 33-
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