would have us live with him, anda he dyed that we ant he may tive +,. gether. And fo he may be ſaid ro dic for our Salvation, the ſi} $a whereof confiſteth in our livi ing with him. To live with fo glorig us perſon, and a perſon that is full of love to us, and ſhall then bh Perf. ly beloved of us, and that ſtands in many near Relations to ang Ind whoſe preſence will have ſuch a blefled influence upon us, anc| Fe x a place as Heaven is, and that for ever, fure carries the ſubſtance | our Salvation in it, And if this was the end of his death,
re it v more than to be an example of Faith, Patience, and ſubmi ſnon to G;
Or to confirm to us the Poarin he preached ; it was to fatisf Juſtice, and obtain the pardon of cur fin, and merit tor k. Lhe Pt viledge of living with him. :
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11 Wherefore || comfort your ſelves to edifie one another # even 2s alſo ye do w.
£ Thele words are an exhortation to the whole Church 6f Th nica, to comfort anc edifie one another, 1lhough fic Minif ity, pointed to this by cſpccial office, yet pr ivate Chriſtians are tg : Drag it to one another, the former doth 1 It in way of zuthority, the lit a way of charity, The Apoftlc had laid butore them man, cont, ble truths : ; which they $5: to comfort one another by :; and l read the words, exhort one another, it refers to the neceHary « a Religion he had mentioned in this and the toregoing chapter, # this follows from both the former, asalluding to an houſe that is! wilt
up by degrees; and ſo is every C hurch the houſe of God ; and con;h-
ing of living ſtones, every part is to ſeek the building up of the i whole, Anc | by mutual exhortation and comfort the whole 1 may be elifizd ; Chriſtians then are to be blamed that only ſeck to-edihe themſelves,arg much more they who pull down, and diride, and deſtroy, inflea! of building up. w And what the Apoſtle EXhorted them to, they were already in the practice of ; for which he here again comme: nds them as he had done upon ſeveral accounts before, not to flatter but to er a rage them to proceed, and to ſet before other Churches their L: cam tor imitation,
2 And we beſeech you, brethren, * to know them: , «, which labour among you w, and are over you 11 the 15.1, LORD x, and admoniſh you y : | Th
13 And toeſteem them very highly in love x for the works ſake a. And be at peace among your lelves !
w The Apoftle ſpake before of their private duties as © hr! ſta one another, now of their duties to their Paſtors and Teachers, | \n by what he had ſaid they might think the Miniſtry needleſs, % c cms this Church was ſetled under Ofhcers which is called an C227: Church, And though the Apoftle himſelt was driven from them ty, perſecution, yct they were not without Minifters and Teachers, an. they owed a great Duty to them, to which he doth lovingly eX10rT them. And he deſcribes them not by the name of their ofEco, 15 Þ2. ftors, Elders, or Miniſters, but by the wort of it, The word 1m nnorts diligent labour cauting wearineſs, as 1 Tim. 5. 17. That labour int: ord and dottrine, which ſhews both the nature of rhe v L's
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