girding up the Loins of the Mind, may reter to the Underſtanding and Thougits; and Sobricty, to the Will and Affetiions and may ftisnifie that Moderation whici bulot,;s to thei, 1n oppot:tion to ticir Inordinateneſs, witich is a fort of Drunkeanels, Or, 1t may be rendred, be watchful, as it is trantlated, 2 Tm. 4. 5. and with which it is joyned, 1 Theſſ. 5.6, 8. and ſo it agrees well with the former clauſe; they chat have the Loins of their Mind girt up, be- ing of a vigilant, preſent Mind, and ready for any Work, they are to undertake. 5 Gr. perfe#ly, as in the Margin, 7. e. fincerely, entirely, with a firm confidence ; but the following words tavour our Trantlation, which tignifes Perſeverance in hope. See #6. 3. 6, i Final Salvation, which is the Gitt of Grace, Rom. 6.23. and 1s called the Grace of Life, i Pet. 3. 7. k Called the appearing of Jeſus Chriſt, ver. 7.
14 As obedient Children /, not faſhioning #2 your
ſelves according to the former luſts x in your 1gno-
T4ance 0.
! Gr. Children of Obedience, by an uſual Hebraiſm for obedient Children. So Children of Diſohedience, Eph. 2. 2. Col. 3. 6. and this we may underſtand either abſolutely, Children of Obedience tor obedient Perſons ; or with relation to God, obedient Children of God; and then the Apoſtle perſwades them to their Duty by ani Argument taken from their Adoption ; being the Children of God, he would have them behave themſelves obediently, as becomes them in that Relation, mm Not accommodating, not conforming your {.lves, not ſhaping, or ordering your Converſation. See the fame word, Rom. 12.2. n The Luſts you formerly indulged your ſelves in. See Epheſ. 4.22. 0 Your ignorance of Chriſt and the Goſpel, 4. 4. not faſhioning your ſelves according to thoſe Lufts you lived in, when you were ignorant of Chriſt. He diſtinzuiſheth between the time of their Ignorance and of their Illumination. Another Age requires other Manners. They formerly lived according to the DiRates of their Luſts, but now ought to live according to the Will of Chriſt, See ver. 18. Ads 17. 30. Epheſ. 4. 17, 18.
15 Burt as he p that hath called q you, is ho- 'v 7, ſo be ye holy in all manner of converſa- tion S,
þ God the Father, to whom, as the firſt Cauſe, our Calling is frequently aſcribed, Rom. 9.11, 24, and 1 Cor. 7.15, Gal. 1. 15, It may be rendred, according to the Holy One that called you, i. e, according to his Example ; you are Children, and ſhouid therefore imitate your Father, Zh. 5. 1. q Viz. Effeftually, to the Knowledge and Faith of Chriſt. r So God is often ftiled by Tſaiah, and other Pen-men of the Scripture, as the Fountain and Ex- emplar of Holineſs. s Either through the whole Courſe, and in the ſeveral parts of your Converſation, or in all manner of Converſation, as we read it, 7.e. with whomſoever ye converſe, Believers or Inft- dels, Friends or Enemies, Relations or Strangers ;. and in whatſo- ever condition ye are in, Peace or Trouble, Proſperity or Advyer-
ſity.
16 Becauſe it is written, * Be ye holy, for I z am holy. 5 your Father, and therefore you ought to imitate, and obey
me : Or, I that have ſerved you from other People, that you ſhould be mine, Levit. 20. 25. to which place particularly this ſeems to reter.
17 Andif z ye call on x the father, * who, with out reſpeQ of perſons y, Judgeth 5 according to eve- ry mans work a, + paſs the time of your ſojourning b here in tear c.
uv This Particle is 'uſed here, and frequently elſewhere, not as a Note of doubting, but by way of Afertion, and ſuppoſition of a thing known. x Either this is to be meant of Invocation, their calling on God in Prayer ; and then the ſenſe is, If you be Servants, and Worſhippers of the Father : Prayer being many times put tor the whole Worſhip of God, I/z. 43.22. Ads 9. 11. or of their calling God, Father, as Matty. 6. 9. and then the ſenfe js, If you would be counted God's Children, James 2. 7. y And fo will no more excuſe you that are 7ews, and deſcended from Abraham, than thoſe that are born of Gentile Parents, Job 34. 19. Ads 1c. 34. Epbeſ. 6. 9. x And ſo isnot a Father only, but a Judge, and that a moſt rizhteous one. 4a 7.e. Works, the Singular Number put for the Plural, as James 1. 25. See Rom. 2.6, Job 34-11. b The word ſignifies the temporary abode of a Man in a place where he was not born, or doth not ordinarily refide ; ſuch being the condition of Believers in the World, that they are Sojourners, not Citizens of it; they are travelling through it to their Father's Houſe, and heaven- ly Country, Heb. 11. $, 10, I3, 15, they are here exhorted to a ſuitable carriage exprefled in the next words, c Which 1s due to him as a Father, and a Judge. It may imply the greateſt Reverence, and the deepeſt Humility, Phil. 2. 12. and 1 Cor. 2, 3. and 1 Pet, 3. 2, U'S-
13 For as much as ye know d4'* that ye were not redeemed e with corruptible things, as filver.,and gold, + from your vain f converſation g recezved by tradi- tions þ from your farhers 7.
d Conſidering that ye were, &c. e See Tit. 2. 14. This implies them to have been in a ſervile condition, and in Eondage to their own Errors, til they were converted to Chriſt. + The moſt pre- cious things, of zreateſt eſteem among Men. f Becauſe unprofita- ble to, and inſufficient for Righteouſneſs and Salvation. g Viz. in your Judaiſm, wherein you were ſo much addited to uncommanded Rites and Ceremonies, as to have little reſpe& for God's Law. þ And ſo not enlv by their Example and Praftice, but by their Dorine and Precinte, Matih. 15. 2, Rc. Mark, 7. 7, &c. Sec likewiſe Gal. 1. 14. 3 Firher, vour Anceſtors, as Ezeb. 20, 18, or DoQors and In- who are fometimes cal'zd Fathers, 1 Cor. 4 15.
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