x. fies ſuch Ordinances as dep2nded vron the file wilh of the T.2w Erver, and is, C91.2. 14. taken for Cremor.iz! on. and fo is to be taken here. This the Apoſtle ſeems to aid, to fhew whit part of the Law was Abrogated by Chrift, ©:;-. nothing of ti: Moral! Law, but only the Ceremonial. 4 Or 'r222e, or form, it oppontion to 4vlifh. r By Qnion with Bin If as the Head in which the ieveral Members agree. 1 wo Lodics or tro Veonle, Fews Or Gentiles. tr i, e New Body or new (viz. Chrittian) People. As the Body of a Common-wealth is one civil Fertor, ſo the Pody of the C hurch i; in alike (ene ons Perſon. 4 Betwern Few and Gentile, jiaving taken away thoſe Ceremonial Laws, which were the caule of the difference berween them. 16 Aa that he might reconcile both unro God my one body y by the Crofs z, * having !laia the en- * Rom. 6: mity - thereby 4. 6, x Another end of Chriſt's aboliſhing, the Ceremonial T aw, <iz, -2<-18 That he might reconcile both Few and Gentile (all the Het toge- T Or, 7 ther) unto God: And in this reſpect eſpecially he is our Peace. hin fs Y Either both People united as one myſtical Vody, or rather this one Body here, is the Body of Chriſt oftercd up to God as the means of Reconciliation, Col. 1. 22. 7 7. e. By the Sacrifice of himſelf upon the Croſs. 4 The enmity between God and Man by ex- piation of Sin the cauſe of it. Of this enmity the Ceremonial Law was a Witneſs, Col. 2. 14. as well as a Sign of that betwesn Few and Gentile.
that were aiar off c, and * to them that were aAgh d.
b Partly in his own Perſon as to the Fews, and partly by his A- poſtles whom he appointed to Preach the Goſpel to the Grztles: S0 2 Core 13. 3. ©c Far from the knowledge of the truth, from Chriſt, and $alvation by him, as v.13. d Nigh in compariſon of the Gentz/es, nigh by the knowledge of God and his Law, and the promiles of the Meſſiah. See ſi. 57. 19.
16 For * through him'e we both have an acccf / * Rom. 5 by one Spirit g unto the Father.
e As our Mediator and Peace-maker, who hath reconciled us t9 God. f Are admitted or jntroduced. & By the Holy Ghoft who 1s Our Guide to lead us to the Father, as Chriſt is the way by which wegotohim, Fchr 14. 6. As there is but one Mediator through whom both Fews and Gentil:s come to God, :{o bur one and the ſame Spirit, Chap. 4. 4.
19 Now therefore ye arc no more frangers, and foreigners h but * fellow-citizens with the faints z, and of * the honſhold of Gcd k. *
þ Such are they that may dwell in a City, but are not Free of it. ,..
He means the ſame as v. 12. they were not now Aliens from the ' Common-wealth of 1ſ-ael, &c, i Members of the fame fpiriczual Society or Corporation with other Saints, Patriarchs, Prophets, &c. The Church of God is compared to a City, of which every Saint
is a Member or Free-man, Phil, 3. 20, & The Church is here compared to an Houſe, as 1 Tim. 3. 15. They are ſaid to be of the Houſhold that belong to it, but eſpecially the Children. Among Men, Servants are counted Domeſticks, but with God none but his Children,
20 And are * built * upoa the forndatioa of the * x Cor. apoſtles and prophets /, Jetus Chrilt himlelt being the 32 2 =- chief corner fone m. POPs. 3s
1 The foundation which the Apoſtles and Prophets laid by their *h ox, 21.
Preaching, viz. Chriſt, whom they held forth as the only Mediator ; ,, | between God and Man, the only Saviour and Head of the Church ; * Sec 1 Cor, 3. 11. Foundation in the Singular Number, to imply the unity of their Do&rin centring in Chrift, Apoſtles and Prophets, whoſe Office was to Preach, not Kings and Patriarchs, m As both ſupporting the building by his ſtrength, and uniting the ſeveral parts of ir, F?w and Gemile: See Mat. 21. 42. Til. 11S. 22, They that are of chicf Authority are called the corners of a Peo- ple, as ſuſtaining the ggcateſt burthen, 1 Sam. 14. 33. /ſ7. 19. 13. Obj. If Chrift be the corner Stone, how is he the Foundation ? Anſw. The ſame thing may have different denominations in diffe- rent reſpetts; Chriſt is called a Foundation, 1 C7. 3. 11. a corner Stone, 1 Per. 2.6, a Temple, Fohz 2. 19. a Door, -Fobn 10. 7. a Builder, Mat. 16. 18. ſo here again a corner Stone, and yet laid for a Foundation, 1/.:. 28. 16.
21: * In whom 7 all the building o fitly framed to- * Ch. 4. gether p groweth q uuto an * holy Temple 7 1n the _ Lord / LY
7 Or pom whom, viz. Chriſt the Foundation. o Whatſoever * 4 Cor, is built on Chrift the Foundation, and 6 a!l particular Eelievers 4, js, as the ſeveral parts of the Building. p Joined and united both to Chrift the Foundation by Faith, and to each other by Love.
q Either, 1. ariſcth; the Building goeth on till it come to be a 1 em-
ple. Or, 2. It notes the Stones or Materials of the Houfe to bz living ones, receiving life from Chrift, 1 Per. 2. 5. Growth {up- poſeth life. The Verb is in the Preſent Tenſe, to tignifte that
the Builders are fill at work, and this Temple not. yet finiſhed.
7 Tn allufjon to the Temple at Ferufalem, whereas the Holy of f0-
lies was a Type of Heaven, lo the Temple it ſelt was a Type oi
; the Church, both as it was the place of God's Preſence, and of
| his Worſhip. ſEither this muſt be joined to growrh, and then it
'1i5 a Pleonalm, the Antecedent b2ing here repeated, though th= Relative had been expreſſed, and ict implies the Growth of Be- lievers (the materials of this ſpiritual Building) ro be. from Chrift. Or it may bg,joined with #7y, and thea It {1gnific3 that
they have their Holineſs trom Chritr, or is may be read Huly
13 the Lord, and then it expretſes the nature of this Templr,
that it is undefiled, conſecrated iv the Lord, aud mect for
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