Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1444

ind: which Is an eminent placero prove the Divine Narrnre of' word. which renders a perſon fit to be credited. I; & Cuff ; heis net only called ow £574, our common Lord, bur he Attribute of God. Chap. 10. 13. 1 Thef. 5. 24, This; * $reat c mage the ebjet of iroxatio: end Divine Worſhip : and It! promiſes of God for the perſeverance of Believers (of whin ® rezcherh us, that none bur foch ascall upon the Name of Jeſus} a,e many to be found in holy Writ. * But theſe wa _ there Chiiſtour Lord, are fit't1arrer for a Goſpe!-Church ; which bot | cern not all, bnt ſuch only whom God hath cholen o1 OY exclates tuch as deny che Godhezd of Chriſt, and ſuch as hve| worlg, calling them to a communion with Chriſt, ws Of the without God in the world, without performance of Religious ho-| (qrily ſuppoſeth union with him. So as here is another _ In mage, to God the Father and the Lord Jeſus Chrift, and owning | rg confirm them, that God would keep them to the _—— Ki 25 their Lord. : | they ſhould be blameleſs in the day of Chriſt. : Becauf: Gol tes > * Grace be unto you, g and peace from God our |called them into that ſtate of Grace, wherein they were, 4. Father, and ro the I ord Jeſus Ch:iſt þ. w would not Teave his worF in them imperfe&, ae had called the, 2 Fs is the; common Salatation in all Pac”s Epiſtles, only 1n [1Nto the felowſh:p of 7+ſus Gorift, (See I Joh. 1. 2.) ito a ſtate; OED; Two, Merry is 81f6 added : Grace figrifies free love. h Peace friendſhip with Chriſt, and into Oe of union with him, into henley either * comeiliarion with God, or brothorly love and unity ſuch by ſtate, as he "_— daily by his Spirit be communicatize exch with other, (fe2 rhe Notes on Rom. r.7,) The Apoſtle | the bleſſed —_ his Grace unto them in. : wiſhes thera {pirityal bleflings, and the greareſt ſpiritual bleſſings, } 10 Now I be cech you, brethren, by the Name. Grarc and Prace, 2nd that noctrom, and with men, but fromiGod| our Lord Jeſus Chriſt « *, that ye all ſpeak the figs | - the jarner, anc theLord Jeſus Chriſt. thing W, and that there be no + diviſions amongſt you: * + * Irhank my God always on yorr behalf, for the\p. 71,7 ye 'be perfeftly x joined together inthe ſme; race of God which is given you by Jeſus Chriſt z. mind, and in the ſame judgment y. en - Left his former Salutation ſhould be miſapprehended by them, « By the name of our Lord Teſus Chr: is as much as 65 c:o1p | fi zs Fonifying, that be thoi:ght they were without grace, he here |,,, Authority of Chriſt, for this is his will, or by the As — learerh his meaning by bleſſing God for that Grace, which they |, 1.” 74,9 C8; who hath © often recon = 8 a trad received ; butno man hath ſo much grace, bur he 15s fill ea-| c.ou'prace with, and brotherly love, one towards another. _ wPabiect more, and ftands in need of further influences : 'Chere-]: 1... of DoQrine you all ſpeak the ſame thing (forts lat zare as he here bleſſerh God for the grace of God, which they by | jj. .Þ 1, other ſenſe.) + And that you neither be divided inf teſus Chriſt received ; {6 he before prayed for Grace and Peace| ,,,.. opinions, nor yetin aftettion, that there may ben its, For them, 779m Coz the Father, ans From the Lord Jeſtis Chriſt. amongſt you. y Which is alſo further evidenced by,thelat Plz (Corifi is borh the Author and Finiſher of our Faich, he giverh being joined together in the ſame 1nd and in the ſame 5121. Hbatit -e w:# and 70d. The beginnings, increaſes and fniſhings| a 7.0 in aff:Gicn is the neceTary and indiſpenſeble _—_ of Grace are all from him ; Grace is indeed from God the Father, | y 7 t411e are the Diſciples of Chriſt, and ſuch a duty as notng but by 7eſu: Chrif?; it floweth from him who 1s Zove, but it 1s ly concerns Chriſtians. of the ſame Nation, with relation 4 chrovgh his Me2-beloved. No-man hath the love of God, but by | {. 14er bur alſo Chriſtians-of al Nations, and may be ating] "2 M