z;8 .Ephefiaa,r, Chap.x. V s x.8. Method. Grace what. Salvation two wayes. I Tim. 4.10. Faithconfide- red abfolutely and relatively. may be able to gather, when he heareth the difcourfeabove named; for when they had heard that they were dead, and that they were quickened in Chrift , how that God did thus only for the glory ofhis rich grace, every one might think ; if we are thus in our felves, if God hath done all for us out of our felves in Chrift, if there is nothing but his rich grace that mayglory , then it feemeth that all our falvation is of nicer grace. TheApoftle therefore granteth all to any one that fhould thus conclude, and layeth down this Apollo- heal! Do6lrine more at large, fo as he beateth downevery height advanced againft this truth of God. And firft he layeth down the true caufes pofrtively is this 8. verfe. Secondly, he rejeaeth the falte fuppofed caufenegatively, which he backeth with a reafon upon res. fòá as (hall be more familiarly opened. For the betterunderftanding of the f .ntence , wee will unfold the particular words where it is neceffary. For this word [Grace] it is put fometime for the favour ofGod, fometime for the effc': ofGods favour in us,as when Faul faith, lea 1, but thegrace rf God inme ; fometime forthankfulneffe: the fecond caufedby the firft,the third by the fecond. But here it is meant of the rich grace in God out ofus,as which flap. data onely inkindneffe in Chrift, and works, and the new creature, which is the life of grace in us, are after executed ; rhefe are not fpoken of, there may (land with grace, we may rejoyce in theft without impeachment. Now the favour of God is two-fold : z. A more common and inferiour grace. 2. A more fpeciall and rich grace; for if the Law had given life, God fhould have filmedgrace, and in grace wasthe covenant of the Law contrasted. But here is meant a more plentifuli grace, in which the New Teftament, with all the benefits ofit, have their foun- darion. tre arePaved:] There is a double falvation for man, God is theV. viour ofall, God ravethman and beat ; but efpecially of them that beleeve. Now this is to be confidered twowayes, either as begun, or as compleat. Now he fpeaketh roundlyand amply of our falva- rion, frombeginning to the ending, as the Context cleareth againft all exception. Through faith.] Faith is confidered two wayes, the oneabfolutely in it fedi, as a verrue, and a radical! venue : the other in relation to Chrift 5 now thus it is here tobe conftrued, Faithon Chrift, Chrìft now beleeved on,and Faith which is through him,areequipollent, ta. ken both as one. Faith therefore noteth Chrift applyed in usby belief; thefe two youMay fee ranged under grace, as which onelycan Rand with ir, Rom. 3.24. We are luflified freely by grace, &c. The Apoftle cometh toprevent the corruption of man, thus furmtling from this, that we arefaved by faith, that then fomething is to be given to us. Whys Becaufe we ofour own free wills beleeved : No, though of Faith, yet you cannot challenge any thing, becaufe it is not from any ftrength
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