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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1816

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1816

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

ceiving the Right of it in the whole Tnheritance, Pſa]. $5.27. Rom. $. 2y. Col. 1. 15,18, The Lot and Portion 1s fallen to him by God's Law, the Huir being Lord of all, Gal. 4. 1. Being Heir of his Brethren, P/. 2.8. and the Builder and Purchaſer of his Inhe- ritance, Revel. 5.9, to 14. comp. 1 Per. 3. 4, 13, 19. Poſſeſſing the Inheritance during his Father's Life, and making all his Brethren Heirs of it with him. p Of all rhings within the compaſs of God, all that God is, all that God hath, all that God can or will do. All Dominions of Go:l, Heaven, Earth, and Hell are his. He 1s Lord of Angels, and hath made them Fellow Servants with us, Ephe/. 1. 21, C0), 1.18, to Himſelf, and Miniflring Guards to us, ver. 14. and's. 11. Rev, 19. 10, Of Dzvils, to over-rule them, who cannot 90 or come, but. as he permits them, Marth, $. 31, Col. 2. 15. 0 Saints, Fohn 17. 10. Rom\, 8. 29. Of wicked Men, his Enemies, 2 Theſſ. 1. 8, 9. Of all Creatures, Col. 1. 15, 16, 17. Of all God's Works, ſpiritual, temporal, paſt, preſent, or to come 3 Pardon. Peace, Righteouſneſs, Life, Glory ; all Bleſſings of all ſorts, for Time and for Eternity. This Son-Prophet hath Right to, actual Poſſeſſion of, and free and full diſpoſal of them. All both in Law and Goſpel his, Moſes himlelf, and all his Work, to order, change, and do his Pleaſure with. q His Son, God-Vian, a joint cauſe, a primary and principal Agent with the Father, and not a meer Inftrument, ſe- cond in working, as in Relation : by this Word and Wiſdom of God, who was the Rule and Idea of all things, all things were m0- delled, received their ſhapes, forms, and diftin& Beings, Fob 1. 1, 2, 3. and 5, 19, 20. Colo. 1.16. In the Works of the Trinity, what one Relation is ſaid to do, the other do, bur in their Order, an[werable ro the three Principles in every Aftion, Wiſdom, Will and Power, r Created and framed, giving Being where there was none,caufing to ſublift ; ſuggeſting herein his Ability for Redempt:- on Work, He who made the World can re-make it, Chap. 11. 3. { *Atave, ſcaree to be met with in any part of Scripture but this E- piſtle, ſtrialy it ſignifieth Ages, and things meaſured by Time ; an- {wer it doth to the Hebrew p=59py which imports both an 4ge,and

the 1orld : So Ages are here well Tranſlated /Yorlds, all Creatures and things meaſured by them. The Scriptures acquaint vs with an upper World,and the Inhabitants thereof, Angels and glorified Saints, the Heavenly World v.10. where the Morning Stars ſang together, Fob 3$. 7. compare Gen. 1, 1, There is a lower Earthly World, with its Inhabitants, Men, who live on the things in it, Pal. 24.1. And there is a Regemerate World, the new Heavens and new Earth, made by Chrift, and a nev Sabbath for them, Chap. 12. 26,29 ,28. comp. 2 Per. 3. 13, There's Adam's World that now is, this preſent World, Epheſ. 1.21. And the World to come, which as it is made by, ſo for the ſecond Adam, the Lord from Heaven, in which he eminently is to Reign, P/al. 8. 5, 6, 7, $- of which lee Chap. % 4s

* Who being the brightneſs t of his glory #4, and the expreſs image w of his perſon x, and - upholding y all things z by the word a of his power, when he had by himſelf b purged c our fins d, * ſate down e on the right hand f of the Majeſty on high g.

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