# Not only Metaphorically Strang! Fs as all Believers are in the World, Chap. 2. 11. but properly a as being out of their ova Land, and fo really ſtrangers 1n the places here mentioned. þ $9 7umes t.I, c A Country of the lcilcr . Go bordering upon the Euxzne Sea, and reaciting as far as Colchis, d Which borders upon Pontus, and lies South: yard of it. To the Gentile Churches inha! biting here P. ” wrote his Epiſtle 1nfcribed to the Galatians. e I 11s like: Wie borders upon Pontus, and 1s joyncd with 1t, As 2.9. ® : That part of Afi the leſs, which was eſpecially called Aſia, viz. the whoic Country of T5nia which contained in 1T Tio.rs, Phrygia, Lydia, Caila,
<0. See 4#s 15. 6,9.4nd 19.10, 31. £ Another Province of the Leſſer Afro bordering upon Pontius, and Ga'atiz, and oppotite to Thracla. 2. Who were the Stranzers to whom this Epiſtle were written ? A. Citeily the Chriſtian Jews ſcattered in thele Countrics,a5 appears by Chap. 2. 12, and 1. 18. where he mentions the Trad!tions ot the
Fathers, of which the Fews were fo fond, Matth. 15. 2. Gul. [. but ſecondarily fo the converted Gentiles, As Paul, thc Avoftle © of the Uncircumcition, writ principally to the converted Gentiles, at Rome, Corinth, Epieſus, &c, but doth not exclude thoſe Jews that Were amos them, who being converted to the Faith, were of the ſame myſtical Body wi ith them ; ſo Peter, tho' he firſtly writ to con- verted Jews, as being an Apoſtle of the Circumcition, yet includes the Gentiles that were mingled among them, and jo; 'ned 11 Faith and Worſhip with them.
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be Father #, through lanctincation / of the ſpirit 7, unto obedience 7, and {ſprinkling of the blood of Jeſus
Chriſt o, * Grace unto your and peace be multiplied p. h By E!e& he means, cither, 1. fingled out of the world, and ſeparated unto God in their *ffectual calling, as 1 Cor. 1. thoſe that are ſ:jd to be called, wer. 25. are ſaid to be cholen, wer. 27, 28, and ſo the word ſeems to be taken, Zames 2. 5. or, 2. Choſen to-S qe and the means ot it in God's Eternal Decree, Eph.1.4. and, 2 Theſſ. 2. 13. #j Either, 1. The Divige Preordination, or Decree of Elet Hon, as the word 15 taken, ver. 20, and then we may take Ele& in the firſt fence ; Men are choſen out of the World, or call:d in time, according as they were choſen from Eternity, Rom. 8. 30. or, 2, Frebnowledge-here 1s as much as approvation or love, Matth. 7. 2:3. Rom. 11. 2. and fo fignifes the free favour, and good-will of "God, which is the Fountain from whence the De - cree of Elettion oraceeds - and then we are to take Fleet 1n oo lat- ter lence, and iv elect according to the fore-knowledge of God, 15 etcr- nally deiizned unto life, according to, or out of that free orac 'e and love God did trom Eternity bear to them, which was the only mo- tive he had for his chooiinz them ; winch comes to tie fame,) by fore knwwl-dge we may underſtand pf bows it ſelr,as if 15in God ,
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in effeual Calling. þ This doth not exclude the Son or Spirit from their intereſt in, and concurrence to the Divine Decree, but only notes the order of working among the Three Perſons in the affair of Man's Salvation ; EleRion is aſcribed to the Father, Renon- Clitation to the Son, and San&tification to the Spirit. 1 Sandificg- tion ſeems tobe taken in a large ſenſe, for the whole change of our {p.ritual ſtate, both as to real Grace in Regeneration, and relative in Juſtification, ſo that God may then be ſaid to ſandtihe us when in our effectual callinz he juſtifies us trom our Sins, and renews us un- to Obedience, fo it is taken, Heb. 10.10. m This 1s to be under- {tood rather of the Spirit of God, the eificient of Sandtification, than the Spirit or Soul of Man the ſubjze&ot it. = Either, 1. The obedience of Chriſt to God, and then the ſence 1s, Ele&, or ordain- ed to be by the SanRification of the Spirit made partakers ot the henefits of Chriſt's Obedience ; or, 2. The obedience of Believers to Chriſt, and that cither in their Believing ; Faith being a giving ohedience to the great command ot the Goſpel, 7-hn 5. 29. and particularly called Obedtence, Rom. 1. 5. and then the ſ:nfe runs thus, Eledt unto Futh, which was to be wrought in you by the Sanfrfication of th: Spirit Or elfe in the Exerciſe of Holineſs, which 1s the Fruit of Faith, and then it {iznifies the ſame as Eph.1.4. choſen, that you might be ma: ic, by the Sandification of the Spirit, holy and un- Llamcable, and might accordingly demein your ſelves. 9 Anallufi- on to tine ſprinkling of the Blood of the Sacrifices under the Law (Heb. 9.13, 14, 20, 21, 22. and 12. 24.) it fignifies the Application of the Blood of Chriſt for the purzing of the Conſcience, (which was typified by thoſe legal ſprinklin2s) eſpecially from the Guilt of Sin ; which Srrinkling, or Application of the Blood of Chriſt to our Cuniciences, 15 pertormed on our part by Faith, on God's part by his Spirit working that Faith in us (as well as enablins us unto Obedience) in our effeftual Calling, as likewife by God's im- Chriſt's 8 tghteouſneſs to us ; and lo the ſenſe of the whole, 1s. E'edt according to t the fore e-bnow edgo 'f God, to be by the San@ifica- tin of the Stivit, brought into the Particivatimn of ail the Brneits of Chriſt's Redemption ; ths Sum, of which we in the Renwatiin of” trncation of your Perſons. and ſeveral kinds them all kinds of cach ;
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