Gentiles; who to thus end muſt have the Goſpel preached to them: | doth ſpeak (chough very obſcurely) of the Ries eoonſmefo of Facet: MX rhis foretoi'd by the Prophets and i faimif?, 12 21, yea, the toregoing words in that 7::r3centh Chapter G* Deut. 49 be- Its long to the times of the Goſpel. Some of the Jew. 5 Rabbios trive i the ; TN Rethren, a my. hearrs defire and prayer to God _— That Moſes in that Chapter, eſpecially ras beginmng of ir, * (, I for Ilracl is, that chey might be ſaved 5. = NN wm Gays Ot mm Mezah. He Ipezks there of the mers; Wild 8 F £ - 5 aell ? rive Tien TA ik ON " 4 wee z The Apottle begins this Chapter with another Prolepſis or ces of ona which pres, - Nations, - and pee ay ge ik "En hecorical Inſinuation ; profeſting his unſigned Love of his Narti- : Haven, WUCH cielly happened co them a little after ri ot | Rhecor! > R Aſcenſion of Chriſt, ard will abide upon them till their Cop. ; Ley 4 þ fy defere Of their $4217 1:16 a AS bet Ee (e ) , - «131 aUDIGE UpONn CLLem THI Coe Co vi.i.iion - en, and his Peart) at I A{V1: wed 7 » by OI *& (of which ſee the It. crap of this Er t'e ) nd th "20 11 P LE {" now again I declare openly (O ye Chriſtian Fews my Brethren) Sloee- them 205m ro th ont N 1G 1h! Ren NU war whatever the generality of the Jews do think of me, as if I wants... — of rom-Je, tO tet Jeruaei7 WAS 15 2, 18 4 'erethzir E '- vet there is X 2 paſſ; from above, rhe rrue Church of Jeſus Chr; then He wiil Circam< Wes hated thetlt» OF WEFETBCIT TREMY'; FETTNETE 18 NONE MOTE Pagan | ce eheie Heares, and HS - Seed barrle tad wed "oy iy and tenderly Affected ro them, than I am : and from hence it is, Cs ud Ws" = 2 b xn tO 10VeTHe Lord 075 Javes that I do fo heartily defire and pray to God for all that People, that oats + = - Fg - _ git #1 , then will the Lord rejoyce _ : . . Dy y . & U IC Wu, S ETOVY ce ey i hem Parhore ch2y might be ſaved. 6 That they may obtain Eternal! Salvation, drag = — 3 - - re] y<ed over ther Fathers ; . SD | - 4 pa Acc 4 17 *- . AX | He _ Y , 3 3 F: Otin;s and eſcape that Deluge of Wrath and Deſtruction that hangs over IE 9? VI TIN, Nc Lew s Cal hall-be make "a Heads written 1n their hearts; It {halt wor be lidden, or atir oft, bt nic co may : them, in their Mouths, and in their Hearrs. Theis che Ani ord * that they 7 F- : F C carts. Iiv'is the Apuitic 22924, - of God, 4 but not according to knowledge e. Truſted. » 5. e. Think not anxioutly a ſpon {ingly within thy eventy, bag: 64-6 I muſt teſtify this cf them, or of many of them, 4 That j ſelf. o 5. e To lezrn the Bill of God there conce: mus c 7 Mal k about i they have a fervent deſire to maintain the Law of God, with all the | ouſneſs and Salvation; and then Teich it to us : or, to tos if there 15 very in 0. Moſaical Rites and Ceremmxzes, as thinking thereby ro promote the | be any admifſion or room for fuch as I am there, ans co car py ma d finiſh EZ Glory of God, e 2. e, true and right kuowledge, Though it be a warm, | thither. F This is in eff=& ro deny, That Chriſt has air:ady - ail Ns tis vet 1t 1s a blind Zeal, They know. not the 1: of God, or what | down from Heaven to Reveal it ro us; and thit He mu. now . / - pu hl » . bf 2 - : SUL 2 \ » 5 that Righteouineſs is which he will accept. They know not tor | come to do it : Orelfe, that is as much as to deny, That Cri hh would whatend the L2w and Wir ſhip of God under the OW Teſtament was | already Deſcended from Heaven, to procure and pu: chaiſe S:/va; ir "IN the Iaftitured. They knew not that Chiiſt, in, and by whom, that | for us; and thar he muſt come down again for that purpoſe. It were . Pa 1 . - - E > x we on that Law is fulfilled. | {0 Geny the Aſcenſion of Chriſt into Heaven ; for he is gone th:ther,
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nOt,as a private, but asa publick Perton; He is gone chich«+ 45 0: £ Head, ani thither He will bring all his Members; he is the as our forerunner, as one that 15 gone before to prepare a place tor us, For Chriſtians to diſtruſt their going to Heaven, is to doubt Whe- ther Chriſ? be in Heaven, he had never gone thither if he had not perfeted our Redemption, and Salvation here.
ed. They knew not the Righteouſueſs of God (of which ſee Chap.1.17. with the Notes there) This was abundantly manifeſted, being wir- meſa by the Law and the Prophets, chap. 3. 21. and a thing very needful to be known, as being that wherein man's Happineſs con- Gted ; but they were ignorant of it. g Their perſonal and inhe- rent Righteorſneſs, a home-made-Righteouſneſs, which is of taeir own ſpinning ; this they deſigned to ſet up in the room of God's Righte-
7 Or, Who ſhali deſcend into the deep? 4 that is, to bring up Chriſt again from the dead
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ouſneſs. þ This notes the Pride that accompanyed their Ignorance, and that is in the hearts of men by Nature. They won't go abroad ;
for thar, which they think, they have or may have at home: Tuaey |
won't be beholding to another for thar which they ſuppoſe they have | in themſelves. They have R-g4t-0:/n;/s enough of their own work- | ing; and therefore they reject and withdraw themlzlves from thar | which 1s of God's appointing. : |
4 For ;Chritt the end of the law for righteoulnels, to every one thar believeth.