: A Temale whore Goll may dwell, Not only the whole Colle- tion of Bclizrers is called the Temple of God, bur particular © hurch2s, and particular Saints are ſo called, becauſe of God's dwolling in them by his Spirit; SEC I Cor. 3. IG, 17. and 6. 19. 4 This may relate either to the words immediately going before, an Hubitation of God, and then the meaning is, an Habitation or Temple in which God dwells by his Spirit z or tothe Verb Builded, aad then they import the building of them into a Temple to be the Operation of the Spirit, working that Faith and Love in them whereby they are united to Chrift the Foundation, and to the ie- veral parts of the Building.
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The kidden Myſtery that the Gentiles ſhould be calle4 and ſaved, was madz known 10 Paul by Revelation, with Commiſſion ro publiſÞ this Dottrin, to declare the fellowſhip of th? Myſtery, and the manifold wij- dom of God according t0 his eternal Decree, 1 =— 12. He exhorts
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1 FOR this cauſe x I Paul * the priſoner of Jeſus Phil. 1. 74 briſt y * for you Gentiles z 12,14, 16. x 1.e. That ve may be farther Confirmed in the Faith of Chriſt, Col. 4. 3. and more and more built up in him as an Habitation of God, c#. 2. * Col. 1. +. 22. » For Chriſt's ſake, for afferting his Cauſe and Honour : 24.2 Tim. See 2 Tim. 1. $. Philem. 1. 9. #4 For your Cauſe and Salvation 2. 10, having preached and declared the Grace of God to be Free, and to belong to you'Gentiies as well as to the Fews (the middle wall of par- tition being taken away) and ſo equalled you with them. 'there is no ſmall difference among Expoſitors about the connexion of theſe words; the faireſt and eafieit ſeems to be: Either, 1. that the Subſtantive Verb am be here ſupplied, and the words read, I Paul am the Priſoner of Jeſus Chriſt, q. 4. I have for ſome time been and ftill am the Priſoner of Jeſus Chrift. Or, 2. that this Verſe be joined ro the 14th, (all the refit from wv. 2. to the 12th, being in- cluded in a Parenthetis) where he begins with the ſame words as here, and ſo we may read it thus, verſe 1. For this cauſe Paul the priſoner, &c. and then verſe 14. I ſay, Fer this cauſe 1 bow my knees, &c. viz. praying that ye. maybe ſtrengthned with Might by his Spirit, &. i. e. That they might be more and more built up on Chriſt on whom they were founded, and had begun to be builr, 2 [fye have heard 2 of the diſpenſation of the grace »* Ads 12. Of God b * which is given me to youward c. e. Gal. 1, #4 This doth not imply Doudting, but rather the Apoftle takes 15. the thing for granted, q. d. Seeing ye have heard, and ſo ſome render it. See the like, 1 Pet. 2.3. bEither by Grace he means his Apoſtleſhip, as, Rom. 1. 5. Gal. 2. 9. or the Free Grace of God for Salvation revealed in the Goſpel which he was to Preach, and then by Diſpenſation we muſt underſtand his Commiſion, or Ordination of. God to that work, viz. to publiſh that Grace whereof the Miniſters of the Goſpel are the Ditpeniers, 1 Cor. 4. 1. c To you Epzeſi.ms and other Gentiles for whom particularly I am appointed an Apoſtle, is 9g. 15. and 26. 17, 18. Gal. 78 A
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* Ats22. 3 * How that by revelation 4 * he made known 17.21. unto me the myſtery e (* as I wrote -þ afore fin few * Rom. words: ? IG. 4 Þ 4 Not by Man, but immediately, As 9.15. Gal. 1. 12. e viz. RP * of calling the Gentiles to Salvation by Faith in Chriſt, without the CN. I. works of the Law, verſe 6. f In the two former Chapters of this by 23S]. Enftle. | ah + Or, 4 A : Mooke bb 4 Whereby when ye read g ye may underſtand my fore. knowledge in the myſtery of Chriſt) Or unto which attendinz. * As 19, 5 * Waich 1n other ages þ was not made known 29, anto the ſons of men 7, as it is now revealed unto his holy apolties and prophets & by the Spirit /. h Tn the times before Chriſt's conging in the fleſh. 7 That the Gentiles ſhould be called, was formerly known and foretold, but not as {ince, viz. as to the time and manner of it, and the means whercby it ſhould be effeted. k New Teftament Prophets, ch. 4. 11. Kon. 12. 6. and 1 Core 14. 13. Either by the Spirit's being poured out on the Geyriles, it was known that they ſhould be Co- heirs with the believing Fews; or rather by the Spirit inftruing th Apoſtles and Prophets, and immediately acquainting them with tliis myſtery. * Gal. 3- , ©. 1 har the Gentiles * ſhould be tellow-heirs »;, and 29. * of the ſame body z, and * partakers of his promile o
* Ch. 2. 11 Chriſt p by the goſpel g. 15, 16, 1m 1. e. Have an equal right to the Heavenly Inheritance with * Gal. 3+ the believing F2ws. 2 The ſame myſtical Body whereof Chriſt is T4. th2 Head. o The great promiſe of the Covenant which compre- hends all the reſt under it. p Jn whom all the promiſes have their accompliſhment, 2 Cor. 1. 20. q As the means or inſtru- ment by which God works Faith, whereby they are made partakers of the Promiſe, Fellow-heirs, 6c, * Rom. 11 7 Whereoft I was made a miniſter * according to the 5. g1tt of the grace of God 7, given unto me by the * ef- * Ch. 1. tectual working of his power / Is 7 Either according to the free Gift of God, and which was given meerly of Gracz; or by z/fr he underſtands all thoſe ſeveral Gifts, {a5 0f knowledze, utterance, ©c.) which were the neceſſary quali- cations and furniture of an Apoſtle for the due diſcharge of his Ofic2, all which were freely given to him. [ Whereby God made 1:11 2 Preacher of the Goſpel, who had been a Perſecutor of Be- t2vcrs, and wrought effectually by the Spirit with his Preaching for the Converſion of thouſands, and ſpreading the Goſpel in many Countrivs, and licwwile wrought Miracles for the confirmation
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