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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1452

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1452

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nance was affeQted and voluntary. man, Nuts trIwn&. Some tiunk that "y the 14:45 1.3% here 9 But as it is written, eye hath not ſeen, nor ear |is meant the carns/ m8! : thus 1 Cor. 15. 44. thy nitardl body is ope

heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, Paſs of ele Wk _ DONG fn Nr i 1 popes . . * , man vw - It- 4 1PIr:it, .S Ms - ings which God hath prep aced for them that eſſential parts, hath conſtantly his denomination from oae ot then, oe nm p. and all menia the world are either c na! or ſpiritual, and that che ? The place where thisis written is by all agreed to be 7/a. 64. | Greek word 4-74 ſignifies that ſoul and life which is common to 4 where the words are, For ſince the b-ginning of the world Men| all men, from whence all common morions and aff:&ions are, and have mt beard, nor perceived by the car, neither bath the eye ſeen, O | isoppoſed to the holy Spirit, which dwells in the the Souls of Gu, befides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiterb for him. | them that are ſanQified, by which they are led and guided, >< [tis ſo uſual with the Penmen of holy Writ, ro quote the ſenſe of | Thus, fay they, the natural man isone who is a ſervant to his Juſt Texts in the Old Teftamear,not tying themſelves co Letters and | and corruptions, under the perfe& government of his Sou!, conti-. Yyllabes, that it is mightily vain for any toobje&t againſt chisquo- | dered meerly as natural, all whoſe motionsin that eſtate of tin an ation, as no where written in the Old Teſtament, but taken out |corcuption are inordinats. Others think that the Apottie hers of ſome Apocryphal Writings, The ſence of what is written 1ſa. 64. |ſpeaks of ſuch as are weak in ths Faith, licile ones, Babes its 4 1splainly the ſame with what he ſpeaketh in this place; the grea- |Chriſt, who had need of milk, nor of frong meat, and are 13 teſt difference is,the Apoſtle ſaith, Thoſe that love him, che Prophet, | tural men in compariſon of thoſe more {piritua! al perte&t. tn Thſe that wait for him (which is the certain produtt and effett of | this ſenfo indeed the Apoſtle, Chap. 3. v. 4. calle them carins] ove.) The whole 64. Chap. of 1/aiah, and ſome Chapters follow- | But there isnothing more plain, than that the Apoitic under che ng treat concerning Chriſt, ſo doth this Text. Chriſt and his be-| notion of 4v1ard; aver & (which we tranſlate n3tun al man} here, Wit; are to beunderſtood here, by the things that God bath prepared underſtands nor all ſuch 25S were not perf and ip ritual, {UC co them that love him : which are ſet out as things not obvious ro ſenſe | whom God had not by his Spirit revealed 52 45cp things of Gua, ot to be comprehended by reaſon. It could never have entred 1nto | y. 10, ſuch as had only received thz ſ5:ri7 of ihe world, not the the heart ofmen to conceive, that God ſhould give his only be- | 59;x;+ of God, by which alone men come to &ow :he 1imgs that art gotten Son out of his own boſom, to take upon him our nature, freely given them of God, as v. 12. All theiz, caough fome ot and to die upon the Croſs; or that Chriſt ſhould fo far humble | them are much better than others, having their minds more culti- lf, and become obedient unto death. vated and adorned with worldly knowiedge and wiſlom, ye. do 10 But * God hath revealed the to us by his Spi- not in their hearts (rhough they may with cheir ears) receiv, that is, believe, embrace, and clote with or a ;prove of {pirtctrs) and Divine Myſteries,ſuch DoQtrines as are purely marters 25 #21thh

9 Godby his Spirit hath opened our underftandings to under- | count them all fooliſhneſs, being neicher demonſtrable by tent= no; ſtand the holy Scriptures, the Types, and Prophecies of Chriſt, | natural reaſon. c Neither canany man, no otherwiſe caught and and what the holy Prophers have ſpoken of him both as tc his|inftru&ted, ſfocomp:ehend them, as to give a firm and fixed ajleny terſon and Offices. » For the holy Spirit being the chird Perfon | ro them, or in heart approve them, becaut- rhey are oy to by the bleſſed Trinity, and ſo equal with the Father and rhe Son, | ſeen and diſcerned in a {piritual light, the holy Spirit 0% God; archeth the deep things of God, and fois able ro reveal to us all | which is the Spirit of wiſdom and r2ve!rtion in the knowledge of the Counſels of God, whatſoever God would have men to under- | C4 :f. Eph. 1.17, 18. Inlightzing their wer Ranvings, (7.3 they %ia) ind concerning the Lord Jeſus Chriſt. $o as this Vext is an &- ' know the hope of [1s calling, and what 1s the viewer 31 the gory of *

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