bþ On whom this Spirit (who muſft ſtrengthen you as being a Spirit of Might, 1/7. 11. 2.) reſteth, //z. 61. 1. c May intimately and continually poſſeſs and fill not vour Heads only with his Do- rin, but your affections wtih his Spirit, ſee Fohn 14.23. d Where- by ye not only believe Chriſt's Truth, but receive and apprehend himſelf, and which is the means by which ye have union and com- munion With him. -e Either he means, 1. Our Love to God and our Neighbour, ard then he prays that their Love might not be {light and ſuperficial, bur ſtrong and firm. Or, 2. God's Love to us, and then he prays that the Fpheſians, who had already taſted God's Love to them in Chrift, might be more fully ſtrengthned in the perſwation of that Love.
18 May be able to comprehend f with all faints g, what zs the breadth, and length, and depth, and height 4.
f More fully and perfeQly to perceive and underſtand. g Which are or have been. h The immenſe vaſtneſs, dignity and perfettion. Either 1. Of Redemption by Chrift extending both to Few and Gentile, and ſo the myſtery before mentioned. Or rather 2. Of the Love of Chriſt as follows.
19 And to know : the love of Chriſt, which paſſeth knowledge k, that ye might be filled with all the ful- ac5 of God /.
i Senſibly ard experimentally to perceive in your ſelves. & Which though it may in a greater degree than hitherto be known and experi-nced, yet never can be in this life fully and abſolutely underſtood and comprehended, ſee v. 8, and the like expreſſion, Phil. 4. 7. 1 All that fulneſs of Knowledge, Faith, Love, Holi- neſs, and whatſoever it is with which God fills Believers gradually here, and perfealy hereafter, when God ſhall be all in all, x Cor: 15. 29,
20 Now * unto him m: that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think z, accord-
% ing to the Power that worketh in us 0. | mM i.e, God the Father. » And therefore is able to ftabliſh you to the end, and do all for you that hath been deſired. o The ex- ceeding greatneſs of his Power, ch. 1. 19. whereby God works Faith, and preſerves to Salvation, 1 Pet. I. 5. and enables to bear afflictions, 2 Tim. Il. $»
21 Unto him be glory in the Church p by Chriſt Jeſus q, throughout all ages r, world without end, Amen.
p The whole Church of F-ws and Gentiles The Church only knows the myſtery, and partakes of the benefits before-mentioned, and therefore the Church only can rightly glorifie God for them. q Either i Chriſt, in whom the Father hath diſplayed all his love tous; or rather Ly (according to our Verſion) Chriſt, as the Me- diator between God and us; by whom we offer up our Services to God, Praiſes as well as Prayers, Rom. Is $. and 7. 25. r Or through all Generations
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He exborts them to a Converſation becoming their Calitng 3 to forbear- ance in Lovez to Peace and Unity, 1 —— 3. For that Criſt being aſcended gave divers gifts, and ordained divers offices of Apoſtles, Prophers, Teachers, but all for the Edification of the Church z ſaving
I Virtue flowing from Chriſt iato all kis Members, 4 16. Ze
8 calls them from the Tmpurity of the Gentiles and of Nature; from EI Lying, Wrath, Theft, filtky Speaking, whereby the Foly Spirit is S grieved, 17-— 20. And all manner of Wickedneſs; and that they 5 forgive one another, as God in Chriſt hath forgiven us, 31, 32.
FN ir ,in 1 Therefore the priſoner -þ of the Lord f, beſeech ; .
2 I you, that ye * walk worthy # of the vocation 5 ** wherewith ye are called z.
1.1, J Marg. i the Lord, an Hebraiſm: Tt is as much as for the
I- }., Lord, ch. 3. 1. r Proceed conſtantly, and perſeveringly in ſuch Ways as ſuit with, and become your calling, 1 Thefſ. 4. 7. and
72 1 Pet. 1. 15. See the like Expreſhon, Rom. 16. 2. and in the places - n the Margin. « Both your general calling whereby ye are called
to be Saints, and your particular callings to which ye are ſeverally x called, as ch. 5. and 6.
” 2 With all lowlinefs x and meekneſs y, with long- ſuffering z, forbearing one another 4 in Jove b.
A x Or Humility ; ſubmiſneſs of Mind, whereby we efteem others _ better than our ſelves, Phil. 2. 2. A Virtue peculiar to Chrifſti- "pe ans, unknown to Philoſophers, ſee As 20. 19. Col. 3. 12, 13. my 7 Whereby we are not canly provoked, or offended with the infir- vs mities of others: This is oppoſed to peeviſhneſs as the former to $5 pride, 2 Whereby we bear with greater or repeated Injuries, _ 2 Cir, 6. 6. 4 Or ſupportizg, 1. &. bearing with the Infirmities, a” Frowardneſs or Moroſene{s of others, ſo as not to ceaſe to love
them, and do them £ood. b Not out of any carnal affection, or for our own advantage, but out of love, which is went to make Men Patient and long-(uffering, 1 Cor. 13+ 4+
31-4 MX Chan. 1), | T Endeavouring to keep the unity-of the Spirit c i2 tne bond of peace 4d.
c Either unity of mind, or ſpiritual unity as beins wrought by the Spirit, and then he means that unity he ſpoke of, ch. 2. 14, 15, 16. and 3. 6. whereby the myſtical Body of Chriſt is 0:2. & 7. &. In peace as the bond which keeps the Members or arts of the Church together, which by difſentions are diſh pated and ſcat- tered. The firft ſtep to this unity. is Humility, for where that: is not, there will be no meekneſs nor forbcarance, without which unity cannot be maintained.
4 * There is Oac body e, aad * one Spirit f, even as *Rom.12. ye are called in one hope 7 of your caliing. 6
e 7. e, The Church of Chrift, cþ. 1. 23. ſee Ci. 3. 15. f The CS - 10. ſelf-ſame Spirit of Chriſt in that Pody by which all the Members , LCOr. 32: live and att, 1 Cor. 12. 11, 13. & One Inheritance in Heaven, to ** the hope of which ye ate called, Col. 1. 12. Ze for the thins hoped tor, as Col. 1. 5. SEE 1 Per. 1.2, 4»
5 * Que Lord h, one faith :, one baptiſm &. 4x
þ Chrift, viz. as Redeemer, Head and Husband of the Church, *, agg to whom by God's appointment ſhe is immediately ſubjett, 1 Cor. 8. 6. Fobn 13. 13. Ads 2. 26. 7 i, e. One object of the Faith of all Believers, viz. the Doctrin of Salvation, which is but one. k Zoth as to the outward Symbol, and the thing fignified by It.
6 * One God / and Father of all , who 7s above all , and through all s, aad in you all p.