p In the buſineſs of Juſtification, the caſe of Fews and Greeks is This he ſaith, That the Galatians might not think them- ſelves diſadvantaged from their not being under the Law, as the School-maſter that ſhould lead them unto Chriſt. qg Neither doth Chriſt conſider the qualities and circumfrances of perſons, whether they be Servants or Free Men; for though they be Servants, Chriſt hath made them free, 1 Cor. 7. 22. Eph. 6. $. C9. 2.11. r Neither hath Chriſt any reſpet to Sexes. The Male Children under the Law had many Priviledges ; but it is all a caſe under the Goſpel whether perſons be Males or Females, Fews or Gentiles, rich or Poor, Servants or Maſters, Bond-men or Free-men.
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name of his Sons, this firft-born, Exod. 4. 22, and ſo many 0! them 45 believed alſo received the Spirit, Ezeb. 36. 27. but the full effuſion of the Spirit was reſerved to Goſpel-times; and until the Um- that Chrift aſcended, Fohy 7. 39. and 16. 7. After which the Spirit was poured out in the days of Pntecoft, Acts 2. whoſe Effetts _ evident, not only in power to work Miracles, and ſpeak WAIION tongu2s, (which were not common to all Believers;) but allo ae variety of ſpiritual gifts and habits, amongſt which t215 Was one, teaching them to cry, Abba Father. w Crying, it is expornaet ©, 3. 15. wher2by we cry, that is, through whoſe influenc? and wor ns in us we cry Abba Father, that is, Father, Father : hich not —_ fienifieth the Spirit's influence upon Believers words in Prayer, | gy conceived in the heart, then uttered by the lips; but chietly —_ habits of Grace, by which we pray acceptably ; Fzith and Pn zeſs, by which we call God Father; 2eal and fervei), by v m_—_— are importunate with God, and ſay, Father, Father. V\ __ = now not the Priviledges of Jews only, but of thee 047 on alſo who were by nature Gentiles, and Strangers 00 God; an id certain evidence of their concern in the Redemption 97 Cliriit, al
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litzs, »y- Art #0 more a Servart, not in that ſtate of ſervile ubjecti- on to the Law? 2 But-in a more excellent ſtate of liberty ; like arto that of Sons that have attained to a full, and ripe Age. Chriſt told his Diſciples, Fokn 15. 15. that he did not call them Servants, for Servants knew not what their Lord did ; but he had freely communicated to them what he had received from the Father. The Apoſtle here faith, they were Sons, Sons by Adoption 5 which is the higheſt notion of freedom and liberty. a And this entituled them to an Inheritance ;' if Sons, then Zirs, Which agreeth with Rom. 8. 17. and as it is with Sons and Heirs, tho' the Inheritance comet} not fully to ther till the death of the Parent, yet while they live they are in a far better condition than Servarrs : So the believing Gentiles being made Sons and Heirs of God through Chriſt, tho' they were to ſtay a while for the Inheritance reſerved for the Sons of God in the Heavens, yet their State was much better than that of Servants ; for though they were obliged to ſerve the Lord, yet they ſerved him without ſervile fear, and were no otherwile Ser- vants than Sons are alſo Servants to their Father. — 8 Howbeit then when ye knew not God b, * ye did
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