Ron. 6. 19. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Fph. 2. 1, 3, 11, 12. d Not only in their outward Deportment had they no communion with the true God, but inwardly they hated God as an Enemy, and they were hated of him as his Enemies; by their willing and nilling that which was contrary to him and his pleaſure, in oppoting his revealed . Will, Fohz 15. 18, 24. Rom. Is. 29, 30» & 5. 10. & 8. 7. Fames 4» 4. e This enmity was predomi- nant in their Mind , or Cogitation, or Carnal Reaſoning, not receiving or comprehending the things of the Spirit of God, x Cor. 2. 14+ that leading power of their Souls being, darkned, Eph. 1. 18. there was an Enmity againſt God, ſo that they neither could be ſubje& to God's Law, Rom. 8. 7+ under the prevalency of their corrupt Reaſoning which was ſo intent upon their corrupt Courſes, Gen. 6. 5. that then they thought not of Peace with God. f Yet ſuch was the unconſtrained Com- paſſion of God, that zow while Sinners (in a divided Senſe) Rom. 5. 10. they were actually reconciled ow, not before, not from Eternity in his Decree, nor meritoriouſly when upon the Croſs, 2 Cor. 5. 19. he doth not mean ſimply the ation of ſuch Virtue, neceſſary and efficacious to make Re- conciliation, and the appeating of God's Diſpleaſure 3 but compriſeth the effet of it alſo when it is wrought in wen Fg Cor. 5. 20, and the Enmity in the Subjett is actually re- moved.
22 * In the body of his fleſh through death g, to preſent you holy and unblameable, and unreproveable in his ſight h.
> The means whereby their Reconciliation to God was pur- chaſed (which they had particularly applied by Faith, v. 4.) was the Sacrifice of that fleſhly (not Phantaſtical ) Body which Chriſt had aſſum'd, ſubje& to the Condition of an Animal life, being capable of ſuffering, and mortal; (not refhin'd and im- mortal, as after his Reſurrettion, Rom. 5. 10. I Cor. 15. 443 $3.) 2 Cor. 5. 14. Eph. 2, 16. with Heb. 10. 5, 10. 1 Pet, 2. 24. & 3+ 18, Chriſt's death was not only for our good but in our ftead, thereby offering himſelf to God, he fatistied divine Juftice, and his Sacrifice giving himſelf for us, was a Sacrifice of a ſweet ſmell to God, Eph. 5. 2. h Before whom Believers cannot make themſelves to ftand holy, but Chrift doth upon the account of his Sacrifice for them, ſo that through the vail of his fleſh, Heb. 10. 19, 20. God doth look upon as ſuch, hav- ing neither ſpot nor wrinkle, without blame or blemiſh; See Eph. 1. 4. and 5. 27. unto whom Chrift is made Righteouſneſs, he is alſo made SanQification, 1 Cor. 1. 30» Thoſe who are waſhed are ſanQified, 1 Cor. 6. 11. the end of Reconciliation is Reftauration or San&ification, Luke 1. 74, 75+ 2 Cor. 5. 15. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 24+ inchoatively here with a perfe&ion of parts, Heb. 12. 21. and. conſummatively hereafter with a Perfe&tion of Degrees, 1 Cor. 13, 10. Eph. 4. 10» Phil, 3. Ii, 12.
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and ſetled :, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gol- pel k, which ye have heard /, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven m, whereof I Paul am made a miniſter 7,
7 This if doth not import the Believers continuance in faith to depend meerly upon their own Free-will, or a Carnal doubting of being kept to Salvation, 1 Per. 1; 5. but infers that they are then reconciled to God when they do indeed perſevere in the Faith 3 implying that by reaſon of the Seducers among them all and every might not really have that ſound Faith they would be thought to have. Wherefore the Apoſtle engageth them to prove their Faith, whereby onl7 they can have peace with God, Fon. 5, 1. to be real by taking care it be well founded and firm, Mar. 13. 23. as an Houſe built on a ſure Foundation, a Tree well rooted, Eph. 3. 17, 18. Heb. 13. 9. k And be not as temporary Believers which have no root, Luke $.13. or as thoſe who want Anchor-hold are toſs'd to and fro, Eph. 4. 14. and put off from that hope of Eternal Life, ſet before us in the Goſpel, which is ſure and certain, Heb. 6. 18, 19. upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apoſtles, Eph. 2. 20. the ſweet Promiſes of Eternal Life. 1 Not the works of vain Philoſophy which leave the minds of Men unſetled, but the plain and ſolid Dottrins of Chriſt, wherein the Believers at Colofſe had been wfirn&ed, verſe 7, m And which the faithful Apoſtles accord- wg to the Commiſhon of Chriſt, had promulg'd to every Crea- fure beneath the Heavens, 7. ce. every rational Creature here
elow, 7. e. to all Men, colle&ively, or Nations in the World, as verſe 6, Mat. 28. 19. Mark 16. 15. Creature with the Hebrews doth eminently fignifie Man, by an Antonomaſie or Synecdoche putting the general for a particular, In the original it is 7 al the Creature, and ſo it may be in all the World (Creature being ſometimes uſed for the ſyſtem of the World, Rom. $. 19, 20, 21.) n oppoſition to Fudea, i. e. in thoſe other parts of the Earth Which the Greeks and Romans knew to be then inhabited, under Eexven, which is a pleonaſm, but of the greateſt Emphaſis, as Aits 4. 12. # And the more to confirm them. in what he had ſaid, he adds of this Goſpel of Reconciliation ſo ſpread, he was immediately called, Gal. 1. 1. and conſtituted to be a Miniſter
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