Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1885

hcre, where he was inveſted with all Authority and Power, and {ct T thc day aPPro!Cnrg. over the Church cf the livin; « Cod, confifting both of Helrew and mM FHe ips to tre nurforinunce of both the former Dutics to God, 7-0 Gentile Tiraviites, ch, 3. 6. 4c, 28. whoie Sacririces of Praiſe | and Fellow-Chri! als, v.ith tnerr reſpettive Motives, are latd down Fy E000 ent Praver ottered up tot ;od, he prefenteth, pertumed witit tlic | in the follo-3i2- part of the Chapter. The tirit 15 couched in t!115 Incen{. of his oven Merits befcre the Throne, repretenting their Per- | Verſe, neither tlichting in Thought, nor villifiing in Word, nor ic {ons Ni les their” Cauſe, and continuary mtercecinsg for their paratin 'T, nor le wing by D Diolſociation. "F/T 64791TE; imports ſuch Good, making 2)! they are, and periorm, acceptabie to his Father by } a De/errion, as leaves deititute in deep Trouble wv Diſtreſs, when they E: own Blood, ch. 8. 2. ; 5 IT ins) be he Iting. n EnT49-349, ftrietly notes an Add:tion to this S1- * Eph. 3. 22 «7 : vS @ draw near yvith 2 true : þ heart. ' 0 fill | nagigne of the Zews ; an Accetfion of new Members to the former 12, 1 T117-1BCE GE t;irh Fo h 1} ng Our he: ITS Fl ſprinkled Cinurch- Ai! {embly » CVCN the Gentiles becomi: | $24 Abraham's Seed by +0 an evil confcicnce, aid our e bodies waſhed with ad = 01 ns and Conteſſiva of the Earth of Chriſt This ; ome of the 7-ws from the Self conceit of their being the only prre water. - | Pcople of God, dildained, and continaed in a Separation from them, "i: contains the Duty groun «cd on, and encouraged to by the | an4 all Communion with the 2. 31s te Sprrit reproves, and ad- forms Priviledocs, wit. the (riritral mution of his Church, uſing viſcth not to leave the Ailtm'ily thus auzmented, It in doino it Cir! thictr coming home t6 God, In Prayer, and all parts of Wor: they foriook God and Chrifi 45 fell as Ordi: i of f Wor I ſip ano Converſation; ſee ch. 4. 15. and 7. 25, b With S'ncerity and | and Duties attendins ſuch Church-r racetinzs, and prom *inz their Integr) f Heart, both as it 1s the Subjett of Actions, and exerct- | Salvation. » Such Defertion of thoſe At. ties I the norſhip- finz them as ſuch in all Afts of Worſhip and Service unto God, | ing and ſerving of God, was the comr11n CrSiam amon': f © of When the ey d ud Heart is tixcd to pertorm all firictly, accordin; | theſe Hebrews; an uſual frequent mode of them to do ir; m2 to God's Will, for m:tter anc d 1 manner, fo as to reach him Glory, | idolizing their own Nation, others of their own felyes Uiinlins " { to oh ain Tom him : | BY fTi:2c7, PF). $7. 3%, C Peljeving in, and | them holier than others, Gal. 2. 12, 3, 14. of::ers that valued 'p ful nd confident of Chiiit's Merits and God: Promie, | Honours, Riches, and Eaſe more than Chritt, or their Souls 5 fame mw = *; Kat Kit ul. and nmwtah le fo: WW, wno pertorm the for fear 'of Perſecution, as forctold, Luke 8. 13, x1. ililled, Gl. Duty required by ch. 6 0. II (olol. 2, 2, and James 1.5, © - 12, þ TIzexrniuvr, ſuppoſeth afſemblins, in opp2i !tion to tic having the Sou! - olf us rattimal Faities, the inward Man the | former Defertion, and the Duty of the Afffembled - and . fr7mifeti, prime Emncient of @!! Acons, and here under Bond to the Law of | counſelling, reproving, encouraging, and comfurtinz one anvtlicr, fo 2: God, Pirge in; ed, Mult t the Aroniced Right of purity- they ngight perſevere in performing the Duties for whic' they ing by {prit.” 113; p of Blond, as 50 ul are fo be now by the Blood of | atlemb ed, according to Chritt's Mind and Wi!l, to 2s to firen; Then W Chriſt when they arc -ultified, 2M. Ze 23, 24, 25, 26. that God | each othiers Hearts and Hands in the Faith, 2nd in the other Dut! may ac m= them 1nto his Preſctn nce, hear them when they worſhip | inſtanced in before. q They have ſ much the mo;2 reaton to do it if, him, v. 15, 20. ſo as they may be free from an accufing or con- | and intend the Work as they did nor conjefture:, but certain! know, demnin; = ſcience, on the Account of the Guilt of Sin gnawins | that the day of their own Death and particular Account to he given them, and making them obnoxious to Puniſhment ; as alſo of the | of themſelves to God ; the Day of God's executing his Judgment X Stain and Pollution of Sin making them unft tor any Communion | on 7-ruſalem, as Chriſt foretold, Mat. 24. 1. to 23. propheficd | by with God, ci. 9. 14. © The Bray 7a the Prieſts were under the Law | Dane! before, ch. 9. 26, 27. when _ Temple ſhould be Murnt. waſhed before their Service) is the outward Man, which is, as well | the City defiroyed, and the Pcople diſperted through the World - as the Soul to be ſanaifed by the Holy Spirit, and cleanſed from | Or, the Day ef the Genera! Judgment teſtified by the Gotpel t5 all filthinefs of Fleſh : Theſe corrupt Mcmbers of the Old Man muſt | the W orld, Affs 17. 31. All theſe were every day nearer ty them be put off, and mortified by the Spirit of God, before they can be |} than other, "and they bclteved them to approach; therefore ouzlr 16 t0 approach to worſhip him, 1 Cor. 6. 11, I9, 20. 2 2 Cor. 7.1. they to be more exerciſed in genying Evil and doins Good, not Exek. 35.25, 1 Joh. 3 $3 : forlakins Church-Communion, but keepins clote to Chritt and h 23 L.ct us E hold {xt the profefh 2n of $g Our _ Afemblies, that they miuht better ftand tozether in that day * 1 Cor. - without h wavering. For * he zs faithful 7 that p 26 For r * if we [11 wiltully s atter f thar we have *huin. 2 « 5 miſed : received 7? the knowlede? of the truth, there remainerh 3*: f This Duty is inferred from the DoQrine of the Goſpel-High- | no more x ſacrifice fo {ins, So Gs 71ſt, and the perfect Work he wrought in taking away Sin, and The ſevere exattion which God will take upon ſuch as apoſtatize . ET EO br inging 1n everiaſting Ripateouſneſs ; Tet us therefore perſevere i in frow him, 1s further entorcing the former Duty, and 1s introduced FY the Faith and Hope of "him, really, atually, ſtedfaftly retain- | by the Particle For, to that end ; if we by a free and ſportunayrs ing with ail our M 1ght and Power, whatſoever Infinuations may be | Deſertion of Chriſt, and his Ordinances, without a Coertion ky #4 uſed to entice us, or Violence by Perſecutions, to force us irom 1t, | Threats and Perſecutic ns, and this after we had protciledly ia our retaining fill in Mind, Will, AffeRtion and Operation. £ An mte Tudgments, Wiils, and AffedGons, vith Faith ad Revert nce ar- ward Exhil itin to the World both in Word and Deed, e have Knowledged a Love and SubjcQion to the true Golpel-Doftrine cf ; it fincercly n our Hearts, ſolemnly owninz 11 the es ot | the way of bringing Sinners to God by Chrilt our orc t Ui: he Prie? God 1n hi: rh of the Hope wehave in Chriſt our High-Pricitiand 70h. 8.31. and 14. 6. which was made known to them by Chrift of all that hat he purchaſed for us, and promiſed to periorm 11 us, | 3nd his Apoſtles, and confirmed by Miracles and the Giits ol we ad t9 us, "oh 3. I, 6, and 4. 14. and 6, 11. Rom. 10. 5, 10. | Holy Ghoſt, fo as to profeſs a full Conviction of this Truth, ” Fet. 2, 21, h "Axim, Ry any declining from it, either fo | ajfent and conſent to it. #t Afffter all this to renounce the Pr: feſion the ri»ht or leſt, from the frft and due it ite of 1f ; not warping or of it, and to forſike the Aftemblies where it 1s kc forth ; | wavering from the Revelation of God about it, vhen others weak- | this is the ſpontancous and wilul finning : See chzp, 4.5. au This | ly made a DefeRion fron it, ch, 5. 6, 9. Aid good reaſon for | 1 unpardonable by the uti Conitit ation ot God in the Goſpel. uh | *% DE HAT +