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of this Glory, and the ſwallowing up of Mortality in Life: For we know, thar while we are in our earthly home, (which js our body) we are furtheſt off from that which is our true home (which 1s Heaven) from the viſion and fruition of God ; for Believers are bur ſtrangers and pilgrims on the earth, deſiring a better country, that 75, an heavenly, Heb. 11. 16.
* Rom. 8. 23, 24,
x Cor, $4. any evidence of ſenſe, but by Faith, {which is deſcribed by the Apo- ſtle, Hb. 11. 1. to be the ſubſtance of things hoped for, things not ſeen.) We ſee nothing here by the eye of ſenſe bur mor- rality,” corruption and miſery z but by Faith we ſee another more excellent and glorious ſtare, and we order our life according roour Faith, -and ſight of things thar are inviſible : Or Sight here may be taken more ſtriQly for the beatifick Viſion p:epared in Heaven for the Saints.
T2,
> Phil. 1.
25s be abſent from the body, and to be preſent with rhe Lord o,
willing to be our of this body thar we may have the glorious pre- ſence and enjoyment of God to all Eternity.
f| Or, we en« ae 4701),
aſſurance and confidence, Will of God, and Paſlively ſubmicting ro the Will of God in all
afMiiRive-Providences; that while:we. are inthe body, and abſent from the Lord, we may be accepted of him; as we kriow we ſhall be, when we ſhall be preſent with him, in another ſenfe than we
tiow arc, : + Rom.12- © 10 For * we muſt all appear before the judgment Bo ſeat of Chriſt 4, *rhat every one may receive the things Rom. 2. ne .in his. body, according to that he hath done,
whether ir be good or bad r, :
q The Apoſtle declareth, cicher the ground of his confidence, Col. 3. 24, Or (rather) rhe reaſon of his, and other Believers labour ſoto be- 25. | have themſelves, as that, both in life and death, they might be
accepted of God; that was, his knowledge and firm belief of the 12, laſt eddy Ir is called the Fudgment-ſeat of Chriſt, becauſe he ic is whom God hath appointed to be the Joaee both of the quick , and the dead, Afts 10. 42. The word tranſlate which ſignifieth to be made maniſeſt, and ſo fignifierh nor only to appear bur to be inquired into, ſearched andexamined, and narrow- ly fifred, and this lets us know, that thoſe Texts which ſpeak of Be- Hevers not being judged, or not coming into Judgment, muſt nor be underſtood of the "pry i of Inquiry 3 that Judgmenr) bur of the Fudgment of Condemnation. us alſo know the vanity of their Opinion, who think that Pagans ſhall nor riſe again in the laſt Day. is declared, that every man may receive according to what he hath gone in bis body ; that is, according to the thoughts he hath thoughr, rhe words that he hath ſpoken, the a&ions which he hath done, during thetime that his Soul dwelt upon the Earth in his body ; whether the things «hich he did in thar Stare were good, and ſuch things as God required; or ſin\ul, and contrary to the Revealed Will of God. What this Receiving means, we are told Matt. 25. 46. Theſe ſhall go away into everlaſting puniſhment, but the Righttous into life eternal, Hence we read Foh. 5. 29. of a Reſurreftion of Life, and a Reſurretiion of Damnation,
6. Oal. 6. 7. Eph. 6.8.
Rev. 22,
* Job 31. 23s
Jude 23. * Ch, 4« 2+
* Chap. 3.
7. #, but give you occaſion to * glory on our behalf, that Chap. I. you may have ſomewhat to anſwer them which glory
4M >; the F 10 appearance, and not in heart w.
# TI do nor ſpeak this ro commend my ſelf unto you. He had be- fore declared, that he truſted that he was made mamifeſt to their Con- oy and ſo needed not further to commend himſelf. Bur (faith 1e the Apoſile of Chriſt unto you, or to defend me againſt rhe ſcan- dals and reproaches of choſe that reproach me, when themſelyes have no true inward cauſe of glorying, though chey have in our- po appearance, in reſpe& of their riches, wit, wiſdom, or the
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face.
* Ch. 11,
1) 1 17-God x: or whether we be ſober, it is for your cauſe y., x Ir ſhould ſeem, that ſome amongſt the Corinthians, amongſt
other reproaches, had reproached Payl for a mad man; either ta-
k ng advantage of the warmth and ſeryour of his Spirit, or of thoſe
Extaſits in which he ſometimes was; or ©
- could nor apprehend and underſtand : as the Roman Governour, in the Atts, told him, much learning had made him mad. rells chem, That if indeed he was befides himſe!finany of their o-
and 12, 6, II.
abſent, we may be accepted of him p.
we perſwade men 5; but * we are made manifeſt un- to God, and I trult alſo, are made manifeſt in your
conſriences te.
s We believing and being fully perſwaded, that there ſhall be ſuch a great and terrible day of the Lord, when there ſhall be ſuch a narrow inquiry and ſearch into wharſoever men have thought, ſpoke, or done in the fleſh; we perſwade men to believe in the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, to walk according to the Rule of rhe Goſpel, ro be charitable towards us, and nor to cenſure, or judge us, Or uſe a- gainſt us hard ſpeeches, weil of us, yet the ſincerity of cur hearts and ways is made manifeſt unto God ; he knoweth what we are, and how we have behaved our ſelves: And I truſt we have ſo bchaved our ſelves, that we are not only made manifeſt unto God, bur we are manifeſt unto your Conſciencesz ſo as your Conſciences will bear us a teſtimony, how we have tehaved our ſelves amongſt you.
V.
» We are always full of courage and comforr, being confidert
7 For * we walk by faith, not by ſight -. n Thar is, we live, and order our converſations, not by ſet, Or
the evidence of
$ We are confident, 1 ſay, and * willing rather to
o We are confident of ſuch a bleſſed ſtate, and this makes us
9 Wherefore we || labour, that whether preſent or .
Having ſuch an ho ea, not ſuch an hope only, bur ſuch an 4 : my 2 labour, both ARively, doing the
Appta!,, is repartewort
for all ſhall come into And ir lets
7 The end of this Judgment
11 Knowing therefore the * terror of the Lord,
t If any will not be perſwaded to think
12 For * commend not our ſelves again unto yovu,
w I ſpeak it only to give you occaſion to glory, ro glory in meas
13 For * whether we be beſides our ſelves, t zs to
his ſpeaking which they The Apoſtle
IL CORINTHIANS.
pinion, it was wrto God, that is, for the konow and 3 'Or if he was ſober, ir was for their ſake; in what GE God, was, it was either for ſervice to God, cr them. overhe