more jrom his Almighty Power, than from the virtue of any | ſpeak here of the latter. : | OY means they can uſe, (though yer it be our duty to uſe what I6 And to pats by you into Macedonia, and *t0* 1 Spirit c
EW Bn = 90m + meron =) —_ 4 | come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you "i — PRs < | 50 : pag 4 T OY —_— b ar hs wy to be brought on my way toward Judea c. OD? s God he : CUVEr ; IN WHOM We trull that NE WIL yet CE- | Þ, He had purpoſed to take Corinth in his way unt3 #2/299m%, them ax liver ws e. and after he had finiſhed his buſineſs in Macedonia, his reſolutions God aj
s So great a dtath, in this Text ſignifies no more than ſo | were to have come back to Corinth, and to ſtay with chem 1oMe " Chril grear a tryal of affliction; as he elſewhere faith, he was 3x | time, hoping to have ſome of their company, ſome part 01 the Cauſe 0
deaths often, that is, in dangers of death. t Nor ( faith the | way toward Fudea : But it ſeems, though he thus parpoled, yer ow my
Apoſile ) were we only at thar rime in danger of our lives, nor | God had otherwiſe ordered his motions. : had we only, at that rime, an experience of Gods Power, Good- 17 When 1 therefore was thus minded, did I uſe -/intin neſs, and faichfulneſs in our deliverance ; but we are in jeopaTr- | ;- . o I pur- biting, dy every hour, and experience the Power of God in our deli- lightneſs f?! E Or the things that I purp oo | h 22 \ verarice yet every day. And it being tor the advantage of the poſe according to the fleſh g, that wil þ Erneſt Church ct Chriſt that our lives ſhould be prolonged, ( though | ſhould be Yea, yea, and Nay, nay ? h. lo 4 T we defire rather to be diffolved, and ro te with Chriſt) we are f Though the Apoſtle doth not in ſo many words tell ” ns : affixes ic confident that he will yer deliver. Former «experiences of Gods | yer jr is apparent from this verſe, Thar ſome of the oo yo the W:.. goodnefs in delivering us out of troubles, ought ro increaſe our | had taken occaſion from his nor coming ar this rime to Corntn, _ both Po Faich, and eget a confidence in us, that God will yer deliver us, | charge him wich levity- and inconſtancy, as it his words Were go rene, = "® (1t it may be for his own Glory, and our good. ) to be regarded, Ir is very obſervable, how little n__ Bs re- God Bu, p om.13. 11 You alſo * helping together by prayer for us #, | of the World will rake advantage from, to de 0 —_ orhers kers of th Phil. 1.15, Dar * for the gift beſtowed upon us by the means of ma- Ar - thy _—_— .-:-aggh _— ſuch a rime and moſt inte Philem.* ny perſons, thanks may be given by many oi our be- Maes failed, without the reproach of Ao in the word : = | 22 uo * C1 half w. | _ | would haye been fo charitable ro them, as to he and Piricual 1 _—HP-4+ » Faith ought nor to hinder Prayer; nor doth Gods princi- | by ſaying, They ſpake according ro their preſent _ od: buf Eirſt-frut a pal Efficiency, as to any Mercy or Deliverance beſtowed upon us, | reſolutions 3 but they were hindred by the qo amd it- WW Harvep give a Superſedeas ro us as to the uſe of any means, whether | if Paz fails they will inrerpret ir co be from the gh + ont, thoſe wha
Natural or Spritual, by which the Mercy may be obtained. | conſtancy of his mind. So charitable is che World Nor are the Prayers of the meancft Sainrs uſeleſs for the great- | uncharicable to thoſe who are nor of che World, but ; cft, or beneath their defires; men and womens favour With | out of the World. From this imparation the Ap
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oceeded from any levicy ar 11 conſtr: F. ct mn, for he ol y did purpoſe ro ave come &@ O did (1aith he) I purpole airer | che manner of carn; men, who make 10 CONMCIENE of rh br word? who promile and deny bor ina rea h? Þ Shouid there bc - me tuck a Spirir, at to ſpea« « thing with mv 'tþ which my heart © h ' nor 2g7cc ro? Tins lets us know, chat T14th lid StEATINETS are chings | which do Fighly commend e1cher a M-nTHer, Or A Chiiftianz; bur eſpecially Lim who 15 a Minitter of che Goipel.
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; As God is true to his ''romiſes, ſo he hath taught me to be | eruc eo mine, Some make thele words nor to be meerly cdcclara- tive of the Truth ot God, but a kind of an Oath, cor calliny the ; God of Truth co witneſs, th:r his Word towards thems by which © {me underſtand the Goipel, or the Word which he had prea: hed amoneft chem, (.nd of thar indeed he ſpeakerh in che next verie) yur come it tech tuch efs ſtrained, io Interpret Pauls Word: in * this vefſe of thar word ot promiſe oft which he i ad betore (poken 3 the promiſe wh:ch he owned before char he had m:ce chem of his coming to rhem, Th t word, he f-1tth, was not Zea, and nay, that is, be did not make ir with a quite contrary inrentron 3 bur when he promiſed, he fai:hfuily intended co nave juſtibe.! his word, and indeed to hive come; but the Providence ot God, to which all men are ſu ;jeted, had otherwile ordered him and diſpoſed of him, which was the cauſe why he had nor yet been as good as his, It is very obterva»ie, how careful this great Apoſtle was to clear himſelf from any nnputacions of levity and falſhood z and ir ſhould reach us to he caretvl co maintain our reputation in the World, for ruth and ſtcadin?(s, ; L
19 kor the Son of God, Jeſus Chriſt, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Sllyanus, and Timutheus b, was not Yea, and Nay, but in him
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