Þ True, fincere, genuine, Matth. 5. 8. 7:kn 15.3. gq This ſeem: to retle& upon the Hypocritical ZFews, whoſe Relicion contificd {7 much in external obſervances, and keepins themſ-lves from Ceremn- mial Defilements, when yet they were ſullicd with fo many mor. ones, Matth. 23. 14, 23. John 18. 28. devoured Widows Houſe: They thought their Rel121on pure and undefled ; the Apoitlc fhews here which 15 really for in the f1zht of God, and accordins to His Judgment. //. e. God who 1s the Father, znd being only expiicu- tive, as Eph, 1. 3. and 5. 20. yet this Title may be given hore ro God with reſpe& to what follows ; and to ſhew that tuch ats of Charity are acceptable to him that 1s called the Fudge of WH idon s, .1n-/ the Father of the Fatherleſs, Pal. 58. 5. t This includes all oti:-r atts- of Charity to them, comforting, counſelling; relieving them,z+c. u He doth not exclude others from being the obj<&ts of our Charity and Compaſſion, but inftanceth in Fatherleſs and Widows, as beins uſually moſt miſerable, beciuſe deſtitute of thcſe relations whic!: might be moſt helpful to them, and potlivly tn thoſe times Perfecu- tion might encreate the number of Widows and Orphans, x Whe: they had moſt need ; leſt any ſhould think it turicicar to vitit thei: that were rich, or 1n a proſperous condition. y Uutzinted by the ev: example of Men in the World, and tree trom the Lults of the World, moral Pollutions. The Apoſile doth not herc define Religion, but only inſtanceth in theſe two things, ood works, and holinefs of conver- ſation, as teſtimonies and arguments of tne truth of it,
CHAP. Il. | The accepting the Perſons of 'th? Rich, and deſpifing the poop 1erv;4 £7
I 4. From the digit) of Believers with God and the xc
edneſs of many Rich, 5——-7. It is contrary to the Le of our
Neighbour, and it ſelf alone renders a Man tranigreſſor of the whois
Law, and ſuch an - one muſt eape& unmerc ful judgment, Cam: ;,
Faith without Works is not ſaving , no move then Live im words on;
H true, 1 ——15. Such a Faith is dead; # no 1170 then the
wvils have ;, and juſtifieth nat ; unlike that of Abraham and Rahab .
and libe to a body without a Soul, 179—=25.
| Y brethren, have nor @ the faith of our Lord Ie
ſus Chriſt b zÞe Lord of glory c, with * ro: + pect of perſons d.
a Profcis not your ſelves, and regard not, or eftcem not - in thets. b i.e. Faith in our Lord Jefus Chrift, rot the Aiwithor, but & : 5 the obje&t of Faith is meant, as Gal. 2. 20. and 3. 22. Phil. 3.G. ir, : c Lord not being in the Gr. Glory, may be joyned with Faith (ad mitting only a trajze&ion in the Words fo frequent inthe Sacred Mit; Writers) and then the Words will run thus, the Faith: of the g!51 ; 5
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Fe Dn | 0. - 191
SH” - 0 of our Lord Feſus Chriſt, i. e. the Faith of his being Glorificd, which by a Synecdoche may be put for the whole work of Redemptio wreught by him, which was compicated Ly his Glorihcation, as the laſt partof it; or, by an Kebrazim, the Faith of the Glory, may |
' Words 1s {as our Tranſlators do) by fuppliaz the word iordgnt p "= = = \ 3 2 ;
be for the Glorious Faith : But the pjaineft way of reading
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Chap. II.
er /cemts,
20.
Prov.8.17.
"things of this World, and inthe eſteem of Worldly Men; they are
* 121 x oppreſs you y, and draw you before the judg-
before mentioned, Lord of Glory (Chriſt being elſewhere ſo called 1 Cor. 2. 8.) 1.e. the Glorious Lord, as the Father js called the Father of Glory, Epheſ. 1. 17. 7. e. the Glorious Father ; and then it may be an Argument to ſecond what the Apoſtle is ſpeaking of Chriſt being the Lord of Glory; a relation to him by Faith, puts an honour upon Believers, though poor and deſpicable in the Worid; and therefore they are not to be contemned. d The word rendred Perſon, fignifies the Face or Countenance, and Synecdochi- cally the whoſe Perſon ; and by conſequence all thoſe parts or qua- litics we take notice of 1n the Perſon. To reſpect a Perſon 1s ſometimes taken in a good ſenſe, Gen. 19. 21. and 1 Sam. 25. 35. Moſtly in an evi!, when either the Perſon is oppoſed to the caule, we give more or lets to a Man upon the account of tomething we ice 18 him which 1s altogether foreign to his Cauſe, Lev. 19. 15. or when we accept one with injury to, or contempt of another. To have then the Faith of Chriſt with reſpe& of Perſons, 15 to eſteem the Projeilors of Religion, not for their faith, or relation to Chriſt, 2ut according to their Worldly condition, their being great, or mean, ric or poor; this the Apoſtle taxeth in the Mebrews to whom hz Wrotc, that whereas in the things of God, all Believers are equal, they reſpected the greater and richer ſort of Profeflors, becauſe great: or rich ; fo as to deſpiſe thoſe that were poor or low. The Gr, hath the Word Plurally , reſpe&s, which may intimate the ſeve- ral ways of reſpe&ing Perſons in Judgment or out of Judgment. This doth not exclude the civil reſpe& we owe to Magiſtrates and Superiours upon the account of their Places or Gifts, but only a re- ip=tinz Men in the things of Religion upon ſach accounts as are extrintical to Religion ; or, with prejudice to others as conſidera- ble 19 Religion as themſcives, though inferiour to them in the
2 For if there come unto your || aſſembly e a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel f, and there come in alto a poor, man g in vile raiment þ.
e Either Church-Aflemblies for Worſhip, Heb. 10. 25. and in theſe we find ſome reſpe& of Mens Pertons, which may here be blamed; fee 1 Cnr. 11. 20, 21, 22. Or their Afffemblies for diſ- ping Church-Oces, and deciding Church Controverſies, gc. For hc ipeaks of ſuch reſpetting Mens Perſons as is condemned by the Law, ver. 9. which was eſpecially in Judgment. f The uſual En- {11:ns of honourable or rich Perſons, Gen. 38. 18, 25. and 41, 42. Z ike 18.22, and 15, 19. g The word fe;nines one very poor, even to Beggarlineſs, h Filthy and ſordid, Zech. 3. 3,4. the fign of ex- trem Poverty.
3 And ye have reſpe& 7 to him that weareth the gay cloathing, and ſay to him, Sit thou || here in a good place #, and ſay to the poor, Stand thou there, or kt here under my foor-ſtool /.