4 Mat.21, 6 * Lect no man deccive you with vain words7 3 for Ls becauſe of theſe things + cometh the wrath of God / Col. 2. 4, * pHon the children of + diſobechence. 13. 7 Falſe and deceitful, which cannot ſecure to you the impunity + ROM. 1. they promiſe you, bearing you in hand, . either that thoſe things 15. are not fins, or not ſo dangerons. f Viz. in the other * Ch. 2.2. World. + Or, 19;- > Be not ve therefore partakers with them r. belicje t With thoſ> Children of Diſobedience, who continue in the forementioned 1ins, ſee Fob 34. 8. I ſal. 50. 19. *2 Cor. 3, 8 For ye were ſometimes drkneſs zu, but now * 10 I, ye lialt in the Lord + : walk as children of lignt y. Tiur. 15.” vy The ſame as 7+ darkneſs, Rom. 2, 19, and 1 Thefl, 5. 4. vite &. tt darkref of fin, ignorance, unbeli- © The abftra:t's being put Joh.12.36 5, 1he concrete, Thews theo T1eatne!s. oi hat darknels in which x Eittcr now being in CÞhrijt ye arelight, or rather 2 , or made light by Ch:it, being turniſhed with Sniritual Rrowledge, Faith, Purity ang, i oliiels. y An Eebraiſm 5 1414-: of Egft, for thoſe that are in th- '2Þ>t, x Theff. 5.5. q. de your converſation be ſuitable to your -5:iition and privileges. 9 (For the fruit of the irit :2 all goodacfhs a, and righteouſneſs b, and truth c. :
2 Either the fruit or work of the new ture, or of the Holy Ghoft, by whom we are made light in ti; : ord: See Gal. 5. 22. a Either a general virtue in oppotition to wickedneſs 3 or benig- nity and bounty. 6 Tn oppoiition to injuſtice, by covetouſnels, fraud, cr, © In oppoſition to error, lics, hypocritie. He ſhews what it 1s t9 walk as Children of Light.
10 Proving c what 15 5cceptable unto the Lord.
Searching what the will of the Lord is, and approving it by your prattice as the rule of your walking, Rom. 12. 22,
*;Cor.z.9 11 And* have no fellowſhip 4 with - the unfruit- & 109. 20. ful e works of darkneſs f, but rather reprove them -. F& 13-12. &@ Not only do not praQtiſe them your ſelves, but do not join with others in them, by conſent, advice, aiiftance, or any other way whereby ye may be defiled by them. e By a Metofis, for bringing forth evil fruit, deſtruive, pernicious, Rom. 6. 21. G41, 6. 8. f Wicked Works, ſo called bzcauſe they proceed from darkneſs in the mind, the ignorance of God, and Men are put upon them by the Devil the Prince of Darl:a2ſs, and becauſe they are afraid of the light. g Or convince them, viz. not only by your words, LTevit. 19. 17. Matth. 18. 13. *but eſpecially by your actions, which being contrary to them, will both evidence them to be, and reprove them as being works of darkne$.
12 For It Ba ſhame even to ſpeak /- of thoſe things which are done of them in ſecret z.
þ Much more to have fellowſhip with them, in them. 7 The darkneſs adding boldneſs, as if what men did not ſee, God did not obſerve. ;
13 But * all things & that are + reproved are made
-* maniteft / by the light zz, for whatſoever doth make eb.t.13. Nanitelt, 1s light 7. + Or, diſ- Or all thoſe things, viz. thoſe unfruitful works of Darkneſs e6yered. which are to be reproved. 1 z. e. In the minds and conſcienczs of the Sinn?rs themſelves. m The lizht of Dotdtrin in verbal reproofs,
and of an Holy Life in real and prattical ones. # Or, it 5s tte ligit
which manifeſts every thing, viz. which was before in the dark.
The Apoſtle argues from the nature and office of Light, q. 4. it
15 the property of Light to diſcover and manifeſt what before was
not ſeen, and therefore, it becomes you who are Light in the
Lord to ſhine as Lights in the World, Pl4/. 2. 15. that ye may
by your holy Converſation convince wicked Men of their wicked-
nels and deeds of darkneſs, which they did not before perceive in themielves.
dh 214. nerefore heſaith o, X Awake thou that ſleep- *Rom.13. Eſt, and | arlic from the dead p, and Chriſt ſhall give 11, 12, LUnec light 9. 1 Cor. 15. 0 Either: God by the Prophets of whoſe preaching this is the 3+ lumm ; it may allude in particular to !/z. 60. 1. Or, Chrift by 1 Thelf.5. his Miniſters in the preaching of the Goſpel, who daily calls Men 6. T1 to arile from the Death of Sin by repentance, and encourageth
101.5.25 them with the promiſe of Eternal Life. p The ſame thing in two Rom-6. 4. dit-rent Expreſſions. Sinners in ſom? reſpeats.are ſaid to be atleep, Ch.2.5. in othersto b- deal. They are as full of Dreams and vain Imagi- Col. 3.3. nations, and as unfit for any good ation as they that are ail-epare
I A N S. Chap, that are dead. Here therefore they arc hid to a%aks from <s -. a i1:ep, and to ariſe from it as a death. The meaning ;. 11; ROW ſhould ariſe by Faith and Repentance out of that Stare. of Gm death in which they lie while in their Sins. q The Lioke Rag and Joy here, and Eternal Glory hereafter. The Ang. res mates that what is the way of-Chrift in the Goſpe?, hom be the pradtice of theſe Fpheſrans whom he calls Lipht jy rw 7 51 1 to reprove the unfruitful works of darkneſs, and awaken tja..;_ © dead Sinners, and bring them to the Light of Chriſt, "T"00
15 See then that ye walk * circumſpectly, - no fools /, bur as wiſe 7.
7 Being, called to reprove the evil converſation of others Ce that ye walk exatly and accurately your {clves, avoigir« ys tremes and keeping cloſe to the rule. See the ſame word r: oo dred diligently, Matth. 2. 8. and pertedly, 17h. 5,2, | Wh, are deſtitute of ſpiritual Wiſdom, and through carcteſhe;. fn into Sin or Error though in the Light of the Gulpcl. 7 51.7. that are taught of God, and are endued with wiftgm from above. Eh
16 Redceming the time », becauſe the days arg evil .x.
u Or, buying the opportunity. A Metaphor taken from Mercl;ans. that diligently obſerve the time for buying and ielling, and #1. part with their pleaſure for gain, q. 4. deny -your {elves in vgyr eaſe, pleaſure, &c. to gain an opportunity of doing good, x Either wicked by reaſon of the wickedneſs of rhole that liye ;, them , or troubleſome , full of difficuities and dangers, -y reaſon of Mens hatred of you, and fo either depriving yey g the opportunity of doing good, or expoting you to hazard; i, doing it.
ing y What the will of the Lord z- z. : » Diligently conſidering. 7 In the underſtanding of which gy; chief wiſdom conltifts. :