Serm.8. 155 4,41,010MUMMAMM What Means may be ufed towards the Converfionofour Carnal Re- lations ? Rom.' o. r. Brethren,my hearts de/re andprayer to God for If t aei ù,that they might befated. His NobleArgumentative Epif}leof the Apof}le Patti to the Romans, was written and dated at Corinth, when he was now even ready to fet fail for [erufa- lem, as the Meffenger of the Churches, toconvey thither the Colle6tions of Macedonia, and other places in Greece made for the poor Saints of 7udaa; as appears by the th.Chapter of this Epifile, [ But Rom., 5.z 5225 now 1go unto7erufalem to miaifler unto the Saints.For it bathpleafed them of Macedonia and Achaia, to male a certaincontributionfor thepoor Saints which are at 7erufalem.]It being fuppofed ro be the fame journey which Acts 20 is mentioned in the twentieth and one and twentieth Chapters of the & z/.3,3&c. Afts of the Apofiles. The time of the penning this Epifile force place in the 14th. year capai in bi f. ofClaudius the Emperour, force in the fecond, force in the fixth, forceApotol.p.76. in the eighth of .Nero. 'Tis at prefent impertinent to decide that Calvts.uff'er Chronologicl controverte. Pa acwr. It confias principallyof two parts ; the firfi Do&rival, the fecond Hortatory. The Dotrinal part fpends its firength upon the great point of Juf}i- fcation by Faith,and its glorious effehs. Unto which our Apofile loth annex a notable difcourfe of the abf}rufe Myflery of Predeflination, from the beginning of theninth, to the end of the eleventh Chapter; and therein takes occafion to fpea'k of that doleful Bill of Divorce X 2 Wbìch
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