py . , by . . . . . . b- > p » 1 (*- > T4 P { v4 nN x he doth exerciſe it. 1 Kar #yteyeay Chriſt's coming is in Power, and| deceived by him. Reprobates are often lo deicribed, 2 © or. 2, 17. C . . . . . . -- of" .* o ® & bad . { ""M ' -, = c 4-0 1 - {d is his : Chriſt comes with the Spirit of God, and his is with a Spirit | 2 Cor. 4. 3 and it is the ſame as elſe-where ſignifies damnation.
allo, but it is of Satan: And the 5pirit of God worketh with Chrift in his coming, and the Spirit of 2atan with the man of fin in his coming
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i erhoy Newur ty ualich they Hoattien bad, and detain'd in Bnrighteou!- Fer. Rom. 1s 15, on Finernatiral from Divine Revelation. T his 15 mean, for be fronle notor heathes, but Chriſtians ; not the World, Bat the Choph, rn Andihe Truth here meant is Saving Truth, as the Bo 5 is 9701 te Tor { of Tritth, "Eb. 1.12, Col. 1. 5. FOC had
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wy hy the > Þn of Sin, and deceived by him. Truth, it it be not eccival inioibe Heap as wel as the Herd, ic will not ſecure againft Arora”, or DERCIV. 20k Prevertt periſhing. And rhe amiableneſls that i in Gol rrohs calls for Loves the certainty of its Revelation
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4 Ve hae accent ir. the former Verſe of ſuch as aredeceived by the Man of Sin, of heir fin, and liere of their puniſhment. They were 1 tgeluded which: was their ting and God ſends them ſtrong Deluſion, 25: trot is their punithment. They did not receive the Truth in the Love Of it. which was. their in, and therefore are given up to believe 3 Lic, which is their puniſhment. Had they received the 1 ruth aright, they min have been ſave:! 3 but not receiving it, they are damned, And they were faid to be fach as Periſh,and their periſhing is here cal- Ie! Da;artion. So that thoagh God is not the Author of fin, or falle- tot, Dons 307 off author cujus eft ultor, Fulgent, yet he may in Juſtice give Meg up tothem, Which the Apoſtle here calls God's ſcrding, KC Wii 19POUS elcher, 1, 1radino, delivering Men to Satan to tempt, an deccive, 2. Dejertion, with-holding, or withl| awing that Grace thor might preſe:vethem, 3. A Judicial permiſſor, God purpoling rurto hinler *ien to fall into that Sin or Deluſions which he ſecth their gin Hearts incline them to, God concurs to Evil, not pyſerive, but arivorive g not ej112-rrer, but defictenter 5 Schoolmen, God in Scripture ts of:cn (aid to do that which he permits to be done, as in the caſe of Ferns ſelling, into Erypr, Gen. 45. 7. David's numbring the Peoptie, 2 S277, 24, Is Compar'd with 1 Chron,21. 1. And the ten Kings giving thiir Power to the Beaſt, by God's putting It into their Hearts, Kev.17. 17. And it is not a bare permiſſion ; for what evil God permits,he de- creed to permit it ; and he decrefd the circumſtances attending it, and the end to which he would order and diſpoſe it,and the degree to which i- ſhould break forth, They were deceived into Error, and God gave then! up to it,and it did work with great efficacy : Which either relates to the 3ian of Sin that did lead them ſtrongly into it, or to them that were led by him 3 when Error doth vitiate the Life, and one Error be- ets another, and makes Men violent againft the Truth, then 1t is the eilicacy of Error. And thus God doth jucicially punith Sin with Sin, and Delaſfion with Deluſion. And then they are always moſt operative, and moſt incurable. But Men fall not preſently under theſe Judicial as ; Men firft refuſe to ſee before God ſends Blindneſs, and firft har- den their own Hearts before God nardens them. Theſe in the Text firſt refuſed to receive the Truth before they were given up to believe a Lies ſce Rom, 1. 24. ſo that both God, and this Man of fin,and them- ſelves alſo, are concerned in thele Evils z but they finfully and unrigh- teoutly, but God juticially and in righteoufneſs, r And the Lie they were given up to believe, is a Dettrinal Lie ; falſe ſpeaking is a lie in words, Hypocrifie is a Lie in fatt, and Error is a Lie in Do&rin, #0, Ii. 12, it,5. 3, Some by {tz here, ſuppoſe is meant the lying Won- ders before mentioned, and this ſenſe need not be excluded , but I ra- ther mean it of felje Dutrive, as that which ſtands oppoſite to thc Truti before mentioned, and again mentioned in this Verſe, Some- times Idols ate called Lies, 1/2, 44. 20, ſometimes the things of the Wortd, 7/al. 4.2, ſymetimes the great Men of the World, 7ſal.62.9.
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