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TO
THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL,
MY
MUCH
HONOURED
Friends
,
Six
IOHN
DINGLEY,
And
7
Sir
ROBERT
WOOD,
OD,
Knights
:
Mercy
and
peace in our
Lord
Iefus
Cbrill
bee
multiplied.
I
R.
s,
in
this
age
of
Pamphlets,true and
falfe,my
Stationer
as a
friend
of
piety,
hath (with
a
di.
wonted
boldneffe) adventured
to print and
fend
forth
this
worthy Commentary, on
that
divine Epiftle
of
Paul
to
the
Ephelians:Which,
as
at other times it
might
bee ufefull
to the
Church
of
God,
fo efpecially,
at this time it
maybe
of
ufe
(by
the
novelty) to
take
off
the
hearts
of
Chriltians from
idle
Pamphlets, too much in
requeft, and pitch
them on
the grave
and
weighty points
of
Religion, which
herein
are
pithily
ope-
ned,and
applied
to
the
confcience.
The
Epiftle
in
generali
may
be
called
(by
the Apoftles
owne
dire&ion) his
knowledge in
the mylterie
of
ChriPt,
Chap.
3.4.
In
the
two
fir$ Chapters
he
difcourfeth
of
election,
and
the
free
grace
ofGod,ih
Paving
his
people by
Chrift,
Gentiles
as
well
as
Jews.
In the
third
he
re-
capitulates his
dotrine,and
applies
it to this
Church
of
Ephe-
fus,
praying
they
may have the
fenfe,
ufe,
and comfort
of
it in
thofe tronblefome times,
whereinto the Churches were
footle
calf.
In
the
fourth, and
two
laft,he exhorteth
this
people
to
all
holy duties,which
do
belt
fuit
with
fo
holy do&rine;as he had
delivered.
And if in
thefe dayes
our
Apoftle were confulted
withall,as
fuck an Oracle
deferveth;
and
this
holy
Int
who
had
both
his
name and
fpirit: neither Arminian].
Popery
on
the one fide,could
fo prevaile
upon
the world
ás it
hath
done;
nor on
the
other
fide
prophaneneffe
and
carnali
mindedneffe, in
them that
turne the
grace
of
God
into fafcvi-
A
3
oufneffe.