Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1617

appoiated him to Þ> the Head of the Church. Or, 2. Over all } 1. 7. ſee Tſl. 51. 1. and $6.5. *{ *The fountain from whence 1: thinss may be meant for the Communication of all good things to | Mercies vouchſaſed to us proceed ; riches of Mercy from py the Church, and performing all Othces of an Head to her: An] Love: God ſhews mercy to us miſerable Creatur2s in Ks. Head to the Church with a Power over all things for her good. | cauie he loved us from Eternity, v7. with a love of good \i'n C1 h-< atholick Church, or whole Collection of Believers through- t Both Fews and Gentiles; there: being the ſame Original OY out th World, and in all Ages of it. OO» | oi the calvation of both, "> "INT * 1 Cor. 23 * Which is kis body e, the fulnefs of him * that 5 * Even when we were dead in fins, hath * qy;.4. g '' FF . wy . rants” QNICk- #7 2 2.27.Che filletit all 11 ail ned # us together with Chrilt x - by prace vo ©. 4.12. and 7+ j,e, A myſtical ons, whereof every Member is influenced by faved y. ws I ria >. win I 5- 23,39 the Spirit of Chriit the Head, as in the natural Body che Members 4 Hath raiſed us up from the Death of Sin to the Life of 121... 4 bo Cel.1.13. are influenced by Spirits derived from the natural Head. « The $6 _ +44 carp lie > LIC O! RIghtes 4: + 3 Cor LE CooL tntoalat hi zerfonally bot Relatively 1Ciog nor only IN Our Juſtification n Which Gud irco; Us trom $01.5, 1 Cor. Church is called the Fulncſs of Chriſt, not Perſonally but Rela Tlowr obnoxiouſnel to eternal Deat) os as ad rom v3.1, 12.5. Col. contidered, and as Head of the Church; The Head is incomplete fr. en: EN WML YIVCS US 2 Right to etorn, + Cr, ; : ) > Gy . = 134-4 w.1ld | Lite, who before were dead in Law, (though this may be jt. whon 2» Lie without the Body ; Chriſt in his Relative Capacity as a Head would ded) b rg; - exe Sn 9 ve Mc +1 Cor. ww ap of . nh. x Left | 9ed) but eſpecially in our Regeneration by the infuiion of a view /1uc not be complete without his myſtical Body the Churct. © | orinciples Either, *, Ga ianickning Chriſt hath ati ov. Ira} £14 19. 2. C brit ſhould be thouzht to have any need of the Church, becauſe, En A. $04, 41, 25 M64" M __ 4110 QUickned ts ir | 1,21 : , SIT ry. = her (lf is | 53 Chriſt's quickning or receiving his Life after Death hoo we nn þ of her being faid to be his Fulneſs, it is added, that ſhe her ſelt 1s only the Te WE oe foivienal Entiverins.. ome "led by Chrift =o En. In Ks Body and all the Members -of | ©2'Y ne 2 yPe ang Exemmar Or QUE IPILITUU EniVening or Regs. filed by Chriſt, Chriſt hlls all 740% Brat OR neration, but the cauſe of it, in as much as we are quiukned ag wa. it With the gifs and Graces of his Spirit, CPP. 4+ 10 ritorioully by his Death, ſo cftettually by his Lite: Chriſt a Þ I ving died and riſen again exerciſeth that Power th: Father _ C HIAÞP. . | | him of quickning whom he will, Fob 5. 21. Or, 2. ia « bit't a; Their former miſery and preſent good eſt 1e in Ctriſt, of Grdcey by Faith, our Head Virtually, and by the Power of his Reiurrection afuatiy + and not from works, 1 — 9+ but creatzd oj Gog 171 Chriſt unto good Or, 3. by the ſame Power whereby he raiſed up Chriſt from th. works: © beir 9 19 longer Gentiles, uncircumciſed, out of Covenant, | Dead, Ch, 1. 19. See the like expreihion, Cul. 2. 13. »y Some road and without hav? of Stheation 4 but in Chriſt Coparimers oj ets G74, | the words without a Parentheſis, ſupplying &y wiyjc, and {© rf. IO — 17. 4d both Jew and Gentile are called by phe Geſp-l, 2nd by] them to Chriſt, quickned us together with him by whoſe grace Jeare (te one and the ſane ſpirit have acceſs to Cod aid Jre biitit together upon ved ; but if the Parenthelis ſtand, yet hers ſeems tO be a conex- whe foundation of the Prophets and Apoſtles, Wizoſe COrner-aFoue 18S 10N with the foregoing words, at leaft a reaſon of the {\pOitle's Chrit, unto 4 Temple of God, 18 —- + 21- ; bringing in theſe; for having mefitioned God s great Love, 4, I N 1D vou hath he quickaed y that were dead & in | 2s the cauſe of their ſpiritual enlivening here, which IS the bevin. ; fri G ning of their Salvation; he infers from thence that the whos gr FROM Jo Cre alles and 11S 4- --& of ; their Salvation is of Grace, 7. e. alike free, and as much i: g* | » This Verb quickned iS not in the Greek, but the dete C Ot = God's great Love, as the beginning of it, viz. their quicknizo may be ſupplied trom C _P. I. _— 4 __ pramgr hoon =] = | mY tO us-wird, and t0 you that were dead 111 treſpaſjeS and fuS, Wt CT f Et arrilat ( Ker being included = Parcnthetis, which . 6 And hath raiſed 2:5 up together XZ, and ImNaVo c thovzh long, yet is not unuſual. Or rather, as our Tranilators and | {it together in heavenly places in Chriſt ſeſus " others do from Verſe 5. of this Chapter, where we have the word + Either this may be underſtood of a farther degree of ſhirina a quictr24. 1t imports a reſtoring of ſpiritual Life by the RENO Lite in the progreſs of Santtification vouchſafed to Yelicvers in this £ of a viral principle (in the work of Regeneration) whereby Men } \yor1d, or rather of the Reſurrettion of the Body which i (1: - are enabled to walk with God in newn«-[s of Lite. 7 Spiritually, to be raiſed together with Chriſt, becauſe it is to be raiſed by 1; , nor Narurallyz 7. e. deftitute of a principle ot ſpiritual Lite, and ſame Power that raiſed him up, and by virtue of his Reſurrection, " fo of any ability for, or diſpoſedneſs to the Operations and Motions in which we have Fellowſhip with him as being united to him, £1; a of ſuch a Life. a The Prepoſition 77 is wanting in th2 Greer bY | our Head, and Repreſentative. Our ſpiritual Enlivening, «+, " an Flliis, but the expreſſion is Full, Co/. 2. 13. this Dative Caſe | we have not only fundamentally in Chrift when reſtorcd toi, ” therefore is to be taken in the ſenſe of the Ablative. By thele | but actually begun in our ſelves in our effettual calling ; buc the Fo words he means either all ſorts of fins, habitual and actual, lels Or | Reſurrection of our Bodies, and our titting in Heaven wz hare h; greater z or rather promiſcuoully and indifferently the ſame thing | nor as yet attually fulfilled in our ſelves, yet have it in Chriſt our = ſeveral ways expreſſed. Sin is the caule of ſpiritual Death z Where | Head, who roſe for us and we in him, and fits in Heaven for us = Sin reigns, there is a privation of ſpiritual Life. and we in him may be ſaid to {it there too by reaſon of ou: Union " *C01.3.79., 2 * Wherci: 1a time palt ye walked b according tO | with him, and being members of him. | *Ch.6.12. the courſe of this world c, according to * the Prince | - That in the ages to come b he might ſhe c the UN _ - 4 of the power e of the air f, the {pirit that NOW g | exceeding riches of his grace in his kindgefs toward Cl ©: worketh h in * the children of diſobedience z. us through Chrilt Jeſus 4. a b Converſed in a continual courſe of Life. They were alive ro| 6 Inall ſucceeding Generations while the World continues, c As Ta Sin, when dead 7 Sin; or by Sin dead to ſpiritual good, « Either | in an inſtance or ſpecimen, 1 7im. 1. 16, q. d. God's kindne{s tos = according to the Age of the World that then was, or Men then in | Believers in this Age fince Chriſt's coming, 1s ſuch an inſtance of tlie hav the World, or according to the cuſtom and mode, the ſhape and | exceeding Riches of his Grace, as may be an encouragement to {u- _ faſhion of the World. The ſame word here tranſlated courſe is ren- | ture Generations 'to embrace the ſame Chriſt in whom we hare the dred 1/0r1d, Rom. 12. 2. be not conform?d (configured or faſhioned) | believed. 4 By and through whom God conveys all faving be- _ 26 theIVorld, i. e. to the ways and manners of it. So here accord- | nefits to us. poet ing to the Courſe, is according to the ways of Men in the World, : * = Prin both in Manners and Religion. d The Devil, or as Mar. 12. 24, 8 For by grace e arc ye f ſaved g throngh a1 2, * Rom Ne 25. the Prince of Devils. e Power for Powers, as they are called, and that not. of your ſelves 7, * ir zs the gift of God & ai Chap. 6. 12. thoſe Devils or Powers of Darkneſs are marſhalled | e The free favour of God, as v. 5. f Even ye EpheFans, Gr * Nt Bleſ under him as their Prince, who ſets upa Kingdom to himſelf in op- | z77-s, who had not ſuch promiſes made to you as the Fews had, 7. 12. fb poſition to Chriſt, f That are in the Air, this lower Region (by | g From firſt to laſt, from your calling, vey. 5. to your glorification, -* Y I God's permiſhon) that they may be ready and at hand to tempt | ver. 6. 0bj. How are Believers ſaid to be ſaved, when they arc one Men, and do miſchief in the World. Or that work ſo many etfetts | not yet glorified ? A;;ſw. 1. Becauſe Chriſt their Head is glorined, Lith in the Air, raiſe Storms and Tempeſts, &c. as in-the caſe of Fob | 2. Becauſe their Salvation begun in their effeual calling ſhall be ; and his Children. g Even at this time {ince the coming of the Go- | as certainly accompliſhed in them as it is begun in them, and pez- 2nd tpel ſtill continues to work. þ EffeQuually works in; rules, and | feed in their Head Chriſt. By which ye lay hold on che grace awed governs, and acts them, 2 Tim. 2. 26. 7 By an Hebraiſm, they | offered you in the Goſpel. Faith is not conſidered here as a worx 25, fad that are addicted to Diſobedience, 7. e. Obſtinate Sinners. done by us, but as an inſtrument or means applying the Grace and Ti # *Tit.3-3- 3 * Among whom alfo we all & had our converſati- | Salvation tendred to us. i Not for your own worth, nor by your ing Go the on ! in times paſt, in the luits of our fleſh 2, fulfilling _ Ned. Ba OTIS __ Go ratio ills. + Aft , « « y DY L . S OPPO: «a 47" eem *Pl. 51.5. 6 cn A—_ ; _—_— = Kan * the Sn 0, _ lates not meerly to Faith immediately preceding, but to tte whole RR Rom. 5. OE 7 NALULIE P CiNIUYEN OT Wrat @F aS WEU AS | Sentence. the 0 v2: 2. 7 Q "Ss WNT ; ” ia rt Yo Ms t We Apoſtles and Believers of the Fews. Either Paul by al © * Not of works /, left any man ſhon1d bog *Rt ey Cenofis reckons himielf among them , though not guilty with I Any Works whatever, and not only works of me Corn them z or rather though he were not an 1dolater as the Epheſians, | £25 FOT if they only were excluded the oppotition pag I vet he had been a Blaſphemer, and a Perſecutor, 1 Ti. 1. 13 and | 224 Man, Grace and Works were not right, which yer we 177 © even though he were blamcleſs as to the Righteouſneſs of the Law, often elſewhere, (lee Rome 11. 6.) Men might not os ogg Ces þ Phil. 3. 6. yet that was only as to his outward converſation, and Works of the Ceremonial Law, and yet till be ſaved ref _— 260 new ſill he might fulfil the defires of a fleſhly Mind. 7 Walked in| Z themſelves. m Glory in their own worksor worth, 25 M270 the fame way after the courſe of the World, &c. m Fleſh is here | 2Pf £0 do, when they think they have any thing of their 082 6m Fig taken more generally for depraved Nature, the whole principle of | "Er ibutes to their Salvation. See gm. 3. 27. and 4: 2: We. tior ; | Corruption. in Man. 7 The inferiour and ſenſitive Faculties of the 10 For we z are * his workmanſhip - crcatec 1 * 5. of => Soul, as appears by the oppoſition of the Fleſþ ro the Mind. | Chriſt Jeſus p to good works q which God hat! before 15% monte 0 ihe ſuperiour and rational Powers, to denote the depravation | yt. Halned = CO Eons, Wn, L- © a of the whole Man even in his beft part, and which ſeems to have on __ 7 That WO ſhouid Valk _ pg k 2: Mon jou, whic reditude left in it; tothe former belongs the filthinels of the Fleſh, |, 7 We Believers both Fews and Gepriles. o Not on) as ed, Gor, Nh tothe latter that of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 7. 1. ſee Rom. 8. 7. Gal. 5. 19 but eſpecially as Saints, which is the proper meaning mit" , Cy; kg -" 7 iv by cu TT IOe: | | The [/raelitiſh People formerly were God's Work, #/-ur-rePonn y or, "Om 29, 21. Þp Not meeriy by cuſtom or imitation, but by Nature as | 1 2 . Re PR, To Law 9 now conftituted tince the Yall. q By an Hebrailm, for Obnoxious| 22: G. If1ah 43- 21. and 44. 21. fo arc þchevels _ one 95 ke to Vrath, as *ens of Death, 1 Sm. 26. 16. for worthy of, or lia- Goſpel, being new Creatures, CG 1142157315 Ge Th. 3 me POINT oh Don ” ble ro Doh, firms what he faid before, that by Graze we are fi, HA 45 #7. —_ "© 2" "IE 2 Burt God who * i; rich r-in mercy. for his great 0j Works, in that we are God's Workmanſhip, and are Ara Kr ls LL EEE, JI 8, S'3 0 by him e're we can do any good wort, and hi torming «> = ws 10 = 46k © wh tee IEC 10% Ct 113 Fo Regeneration is a part of the Salvation mentioned, v7 2% 7 es, ” PARICGOR LS Richen 0. NIETY RCFG, As Riches of Grace, Chrp.| Who as our Head enlivens us as Members uniced 00 £12 27 55h "0