Of EleClion, terwards fu)ly to make it enrire, and confummate every way fo as nothing can ~, be added to the perfcdion ofit, as Criticl<s have obferved: 'and we may tal<e Chap. r 1 •. J.:leb. 12, 23. to confirm that ofour full perfellmg m Heaven, The Spirits of~' ;ufl mm m,,de pfr/d1, or Spmts ;ot~jrm:mtJted,finijbed; as to Ho!Jue[s, and T'":'"•,l· Rtghteottfnefs: And the word, ""'T"f'H'I"H here, cloth m the ultimate fenfe of it ~r.>v.Tl~e word comply with that in Heb. 12. 2 3• fuch a perfeding as brings to aconfumma. ~;;'t:i~;h tion. to t~eul~imu~ 1igo1ficauon of ic zccord wirb thar-n;.~,~r.o uf~d there: So Bt'{a on MmW. 2r. 16. YJJ."ltLp'Ticr,, idtmqliiJd i'TlM!11X' :%:.r 11 ov, idtm hie ·vat a, qu~d T~At1'-V :; Jta ut nibil dr{it, ntqut (uptrfit: 1n Match. 21. •6. l'trjtci{U laHdon: i.e. Summam tflt in/igniter declarafti ; Sec captl> alfq onHtb.13.2J. The Second word, .,,:~H, Tran11ated EjltJb!i(h, is applied, 1 The{ 3· ult. That yottr hearts maJ be [efiaU:jhtd] i11 Holi11rjs, hfort God rvm otJr Father, at the comi11g ofour LordJrfus Chrijl, with allhir Saints: For indeed notwith• !landing all the Glory our feparate Souls 0Jall have had before; yet when we iliall have every thought, word, f§c. of our whole lives laid open, am! made known belore ali the World,(as at that day they lhall be,) our Hearts will need a mofl fpecial fll'OOg..fulchrum, fupport, >nd fufleiner (as the word imports,) to eflabltUJ, or bear up their Hearts, before the Great God, and all the Saints: And yet withal take this in, that it is thatexercife ofHolinefs only, which we 1hall attain in this life; by w_hich Cbrift wi!l flablifh our hearts in the Day of th~t gre2t Account : And 1t 11 not that Holtncf• our fouls lhall have had whilft they were feparate, though that only will be perfed: Thot Holi11t[s between Dent il and Judgment, the Apoflle there intends not, nor fpeaks ofto be that which lhould be the matter offuppon, and eftablilher of our fouls, at that Day : No, he fiogles forth that Holinefs we had here, though imptrfed, confifling in finccrity, and truth : As appears by the Coherence with the Verfe afore, Ver[. 1 ~. The Lord make yott tu rncrra[e, a11d aboundin love: Then follows, [To thrEnd] I:femay ef1a6Jijbyourhearts inho!irufsatthatV,'j: Soaswefee it is a work which God doth for us after this life, as well as here; even as in like manner, to forgive fins, and to{hew mercr, is faid to be at that Day: Yet llill feciog the matttr, whereby we lhall then be flablitht, is thAt Holinefs we ob– tain here; hence therefore we may fee God can as well, and doth by the fame Holinefs, made evident, to our hearts by his Spirit, llablilh our heartS in this life: Andfothe Promifelitlyfervestoboth, that God will flablifhus in t~is World, as in the World to come, though more imperfectly here, 3· The !all wotd ~ete, which. fignilies tojou11~, or{rllle, a1 i11, a11d upon a . formdatio1l; ( ofwhtch afore,) lt tails out that thts very word, m Heb. t2. 2 3· ew•Ai•<<i: lately cited, is in one Copy, and that an eminent Original Copy found, and · ufed to exprefs the Confummation, and Perfedion ofJufl men in Heaven; and fignifyingjulldtztorum, the Spirits ofJuft menfotmded: Which Reading, Beza . thought worthy to put this Glofs upon, [of Spiritsfotmded, J fays He, that Cl•~ r""' is ofthem who are out of all danger of vacillation, (or change by frailty,) ;;.,.;,~~;,,;. h;eing 1/0W aflually received inio that City, which in the foregoing Chapter, '"': F'"d"': Vrrf. 10. Is [aid to have foundat~ons; ( which is Anfwcrable to that word, ;;:·{l~.~~r;':rr~~t.. founded:) By which it appears, that the word it felf may, and will fitly refer ·~". ••d/1~tothat Heavenly una!terable Ellate, without anypojji6ilrty oftt~rningin Hea· ~;;:;/'~~~;, ven: So as although 11 lhould not have been the very Ongmal ·Wcrd, there "'''"" 1 ,,,. written by the Apollle himfelf; yet we fee the word it felf, may litly ferve to?!;,;;:?::~::. that fenfe, and therefore may be well fa underftoodmmy Text. ,,,, ur[.p" As for that other word in the TeXt; placed before this, viz. ;,.,J,H; which c. >1.>0•.,,. fignifies togive flrength,power, vigour; though I find it r.or diredl y ufed to '"Hrb.IMJ· fet out our Heavenly flare ; yet it being oppofed unto all fort ofweaknefs, impotency arzd want of jlrength,arzdvigott•, •.&i•M•, without.flrmgth, Rom 5· And fo imports the cure ofweaknefs, or a reflauration from a weakly cond111on or a flare of impotmcy unto perfect ftrength.and vi~our: And therefore the one maybejudgedofbytheoth<r; for the poouve "known always by Its pn· vative, and e Contra: And I find in~ not only the Sp.ntual weaknejs, and rmpotmcy in the foul, to be fliled _.:;;,H.C; (as th.H, wbm we were wtthout flrmgth, Chrifl diedfor m, Rom, 5·) but the flate ofthe body by d·eath ( ~;fl
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