Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1531

; Our ſufferings tend to y0w Conſolation and Salvation, your God depends not upon their order, ſtation, and repute in Souls being upheld and ſupporred by the fight of our boldneſs, | World. w By the Gift here, he means che deliverance | he | and courage, and confidence 1n our ſufferings: Thus Phil. I. 13, mencioned ; which he calls a Gift, ro denote, nor on] jog: {l. j 14. My Bonds in Chriſt are manifeſt in all the palace, and in all principal Efficiency in ir, bur his free beſtowing of itz thi Gods #1110 other places. And many of the brethrer wn the Lord waxing confident by | ( he faith ) 15 beſtowed by the means of many, becauſe _- Gift "1 R0PR my bonas, are rrach more bold to ſpeak the word without ſear. And | upon the Interceſlion or Prayers of many. God dorh = ined HR TENN his ſufferings alſo were tor their Salvation as rhey encouraged | beſtow mercies upon particular perſons at the intercefiion of _ | chem to ſuffer alſo 3 and, ſj we ſ«ffer with bim, we ſhall reign with | others on their behalf, that he may nor only have the raiſe him, and 0:r light and momentany affiiftions ſhall work for 115 a far more thoſe perſons upon whom he lo beſtowetrh the mercy, by; fo ba Or, 97 exceeding and eternal weight of glory. & And (fairh the Apoſtle) who have been ſo praying. The Apoſtle hereby hinter, = Es kites | 06k, | our ſufferirg hith had a good effe&t amongſt you, while you, with | That we ought no more to forget to give thanks jor ot! ,-Y \ÞÞ * WNT Faith and Patience, endure ſufferings of the ſame ſort which we for whom God hath heard us, than to pray for them —_ Pu TH endure and ſuffer. ! And if we be ſupported, upheld, and com- diſtreſs, <8 n * 0.12 ARA ove under our ſufferings, the urn > of _ en. 1 3 For our rejoycing 1s this, the teſtimony of _ Will! BY 1 eth ro you, as you are incouraged to lIuitcr or a conſcience at in ſmnlici WER 1 its r_ of Chriſt, from ſceing how God ſupporteth us under a he fſbly —_— _ mY = 8M 1; our ſufterings, ; "———_ 0 1 3 01 00h 7 And our hope of you i ſtedfaſt m, knowing that as God, we have had our converſation in the wor! z, LN i | you are partakers of the ſufferings, ſo ſhall ye be alſo | 20d _— Ly nam 4. | [# oh THO of the contolarion ». ae not their Pra Some = oY —_ wy ;X ſau ff W m We have a ſtedfaſt hope of you, that as you have endured joy and aviefation? * <P; anne Frank Gs , 'M, co his { \ NAUK fufterings tor Chriſt and his Goipel, {0 you will ſti] endure them, | .*;- 1.6 1.4 carried himſelf deceirfully or craftily og ! \ wot as we have done. » And, we know, that as you are partakers of | 1.1. © bit had lived in the World in all { >, Jt he had n "my affer nos of :7 and his Gcſpel, ſo you ſhall alſo ſhare in | ,; ys 6 3 TIE 00 PORN hl Ges wt the Suffer 'ngs oi Chriſt aud his Gelpel, 'o 5 | rity of God, ( io the Greek is.) Simplicity is oppoſed to 44, . AY thoſe Divine conſolations that thole fee] who endure ſuch ſuf- | - fs, where there is a compoſition in a man, Fs I fering<, Lc rruth and faiſhood, fairneſs in ſpeech and falſhood in heart = h S For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant | gg, sjzc-jity is cppoſed ro Hypocriſie. It is faid to be of Gil - * x Cor, of * our trouble which came to us 1N _ gy + mn becauſe ws y the m_ o —_, _ — it, aPprover, , te. 22, , : ut of meaſure, above ſtrength, inſo- | 1t, worxeth 1t, and dilpoſerh rhe Nearr of Man to jt, » This; 4 wie _ q * Aired even of life p. 5 oppoſed to f/ſhly Wiſdom, which prompterth a Man ro (eck Ni is P mucn roar we aczpe A bes | <24s any way, good or bad, x Bur (faith the Apoſtle) we jy al 0 We are at a great loſs ro determine what theſe trouvles [41 i Verfacion in the World, not by the puidance S, c were in 4/2, of which the Apoſtle deth here ſpeak. We read | 4 corrupt Habit or Principle, -h by the Grace of Gol a) W of ſeveral troubles Pay! mer with in Afia ; 1© was there he was love and fear of God dwelling in us 3 or, we have done i", the in danzer through the tumult raiſed by Demetrius, A8s 19. 23. | « our ſelyes, but by the guidance and aſſiſtance of Divine So an Ic was there ( at Epheſs ) where be ſought with beaſts aſter the | helping us ſo to live, and to have our converſation in the Wor ” manner of Men (2s he tc1d us in the tormer Epiſtle.) Whoſo read- | 4 a eſpecially you arc our Wirneſſes. of this _— ſa eth Chap, 19 & 20. of the Afs, will find the Jargeſt account we; vreached the Goſpel freely, ſo as we —_—_ Y ſel have in Scriprure of the troubles Pal mer with in Afia, Bur | ir co ; MaJe wh this Epiſtle is thought ro have bcen written at a time that will | af ined ow” he chi Can not agree to the time of thoſe troubles; therefore they are 13 For we write not other things unto YOu, then for thought to hrye been ſome troubles of which we have mention whar you read, or acknowledg, and I truſt you ſl ſub, no where elſe in holy Writ. p Wharloever they were, this Text | acknowled g even to the end b. 1,1 rells us they were very great, and above his natural ſtrength to | þ x qg nor tell you ſtories 3 | the things which I wire, a4 15 have born; ſowe think, above the ſtrength of ordivary Chri- | whjch you read, either in my Epiſties to you, or to other Churcie PM ſtians, inſfomuch ihar it rhe Apoſtle had nor found the more | of Chriſt, are what you know, muſt own and acknowledy oe ed) chan ordinary afliſtances of the Spirit-of God, he could not | truth ; and I hope you ſhall acknowledg them to be ſoro theend (fat have ſtood under them, Z © both of my life and yours. of } Or, ax 9 But we had the || ſentence of death in our ſelves | '14 Asalſo you have acknowledged us in part, thats bs +: pork q, that we ſhould * not truſt in our ſelves, but in God, | # ye are your rejoicing, even as * ye alſo «: ours 1: the { 4 Jer. 17. hich raileth the dead ». . [inthe day of the Lord Jeſus c. p. hiter Se 7. q We verily thought we ſhould have becn killed, (and ſoit| , xy part, may either refer to perſons, or things ; jar of 1K and | is expounded by the laſt words of the former verſe) we deſpair- | you have fo owned and acknowledged us , though others ! 2 ed even of Life 7 And this God did to teach us, That we ſhould, | you paye abuſed us. Or you have in part, or at owe tins, on In h when we arc in dangers, Took above the creature, and have | ed us, that you had caufe to bleſs God for us, and torejojce ſoy no confidence in crcated mcans, but only look up to him, who | that God ever ſent us to preach the Goſpel amongſt you, And "Dow raiſeth from the dead. As Abraham offered up Jaac, Heb. 11.17 | as ſome have owned us as their joy, or all of you have at ſometimes Meſs 18, 19. Accounting that -God was able to raiſe him from the dead. | acknowledged us.as ſuch; ſo you are alſo our rejoycing 3 Ke jj _— Abraham had a promiſe to bottom ſuch a Faith upon 3 God had | that God hath made our labour ſucceſsful ro your Souls, a | ſo Ge told him, That in J/zac his ſeed ſhould be calied ; So had Pail, | rruſt in the day when the Lord Jeſus ſhall come to judg the World, alway God hav.ng revealc 10 bi, —<— _ had a arte _ tor you ſhall be more our rejoycing, and |: him to do So have not all Chrifttans, we do nor knayy Our . "A - : + Ro = courſes, nor what work God hath in his Ecernal Counlels laid 5 _ in this confidence _ m_— Fn The th BR out for us, and therefore cannot be confident of deliverances to you before, that you might have a * lecon 1* NO The Þ in this life by the Almighty Power of God , but yet we, under nefit d. : NF Sy our greateſt cryals, may iruſt in God, who will certainly raiſe! & Being confident that my preſence with you, would be mat- rb us trom the dead 3 (ot which Faith we have an inſtance of ne ter of rejoycing both co you, and allo ro me, I purpoledto come . ] Chap. 19. 25, 26, 27.) However for our comfort in our diſtref- | unto you before I went inco Macedonia, viſiting you ſhorly in my . ſes we niay ob{crve,” that God, in his great deliverances of his | journey thicher, thac ſo you mighr have a ſecond longer \Iſit n and] people, uicth ro ſuffer them firſt 1o Le brought to the greateſt | kindneſs ro you. We find, Ads 16. 9. that Pas received his EY extremities; that in the Mount of the Lord ir may be ſeen, and | firſt Call into Macedonia in a Viſion z we read agiin 91 0s pal- | Cned b char they may learn to know thar their Salvations are from him; | ſing through Macedonia to go to Feryſalem: The Apollic leemeth t0 = , Hen N