V ñ R. II. Ephefian,r, Chap. +. Thisis full of comfort to Pooreneedy foules ; I fed great want of vie z. knowledge, I knownothing as I would,'great cmptineffeofwifdome, And take cora- 1 cannot walk in theplace God bathfetme,nor carry my felfbefeem- fors in our wants, th,e ing,whenGod cloth chaften and try mewith aftliótions; I finde agreat thrill bath want offear, aheart voidof love to my God , this is comfortable to wherewith to think of. O Lord, thouart now in heaven filled with unmeafurable flit"'' glory, that thoumighteft thence fill us ; Holding to fuch faithful' me- ditations, we fhall in time work our felves out ofall wants. Whatföever grace we have,fee whence it commeth : It was Pro. Yfe 3. phecied, That theearth jhould befullof knowledge of the Lord ; now fray Inv, what knowledge, what feare, what grace foever I fee filling anyof the Saints, Iknow it commeth from Chrift afcended to heaven, and there fitting in fulneffe of glory. VERSE I r. He therefore gave fome to be vlpoflles, and fome VERS: I r, Prophets, and fame Evangelifls, -andfume Rafters andTeachers. Now followeth the proofe of the fecond member of the 7. ver. viz. That Chrift giveth everyone his feverall grace, or giveth diver- fity ofgifts ; this he proveth to the 17. ver. But this is tobe marked, that this may feem not to prove that whichwas fpoken, becaufe Chrift is notlaid togive gifts divers, but divers kinderofperbons, as not the gift of Apoftlefhip, but vtpoffles. vinfw. Thegift is included in the perfon, for.he is an Apoftle that bath the gift ofApofflefhip ; thefe the holy Ghoft taketh as infepa- table : So that affirming divers perfons gifted, he together affirmeth diverfity of gifts. This difcourfe bath foue parts : 1. He reckonethdivers perfons indivers funftions given by Chrift, ver. xi. 2. Divers ends, ver. 12. 3. The continuanceofthofe that are ordinary, ver, 13. 4. Thefruits which mutt follow in us, upon perlons given tofuchpurpofe, ver. r4. For this a I. verfe, we muff obferve foute things for the fruitfull underftanding of it. r. That thofe gifts here namedare all of them divers orders in the Church. Andfor underftandingthis; they muft be particularly ex- plained. TheApoftles were principali Minifters given of Chrift for WhoApoilles. the founding of the Catholique Church ; Gee teach all Nations, Matth.s8.2.o. Mat. z 8. 2o. I like aMatter builder have laid thefoundation. Theword I cor.3 so. is ufed fingularly of Chrift, Heb. 3.1. called the Apofile and High theLegatos àlatere, more commonly with' limitation, as Epaphroditusan Apo.file for the Philippians, and fo fume Phtlip.a. take Andronicusand Ioniato be called Apoftles, Rom. 16.7. Rom.it.y. More efpeciallyofthe twelve, called Apotties, not from their firft fending, mat. I o. but from that Commiffion at Chrifis Afcenfion, Mat. z8. and the teftifying of it by Egnes, Ails z. 3. joyned with execution. The ap
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