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V
ELIO.
.
Ephèfians,Chap.Ì.
109
whom
it
is
detayned
iti
them or
their progenitors
;
but we have
Mewed
fufficiently,that it
is firft
fent amongft any freely, and
if
it
be
withheld
from any,it
muff
be
for their owne deferrs,or
fome who have bin before
them,
parents
to them
:
not for their owne deferts
;
for many
of
the
hea-
then
were
not
fo
hard hearted
and
impenitent
as
the Jew
;
and
for their
parents
fault,
ir
could not
be
with-held,
unleffe
we
would
make particu-
lar parents
to
ftand
for themfclves
and
their children
; whereas to
be
a
Type
of
Chrift,
a
publique perfon
ftanding for him and
his,
doth
a-
gree to
vi
dam, as
a
thing appropriated tohim, Rom.;:Yea,fome
thinke
that the inward teaching which
doth
fo
teach
that
it changeth the
miede,that
this teaching,
I
fay,
is
given to fuch
whom God doth
fee
as
fir
to
worke
with
ir, and
ufe
to this purpofe ;
as
a
Captaine fetteth
a
man
on a horfe
whom
he Both
fee will manage him well
:
But this
doth
prefuppofe
a
connaturall correfpondency
in
corrupt
nature,
to the
fa-
pernaturall grace;
of
God,
and a
power
in
nature
to
ufe
Grace aright,
which
hash
long fincebeene
condemned
as
aPelagian errour,from thefe
grounds,that we cannot doe
any
thing which profiteth to falvation, out
of
Chriff, that
we
are
not
fit
to
thinke
a
good
thought.
Secondly; Let
us
acknowledge Gods
free
grace,
that
we havethefe
Yfe
thingsopened and revealed to
us,
we
of
meane parts
for underftanding,
in
comparifon
of other, we
who
have beene often
more
vile
and vici-
oufly difpofed then others
:
Let
us
acknowledge
that
he
bath
opened
thefe things,
and
hid them from
other,
even becaufe it fo pleafed
him.
Finally, let
us
labour
to
walke
worthy
thefe ordinances,
to be
fruitfull
in
them,
left he fay
to
us as
to Capernaum,
woe be
to
thee;
then
wert
lif.
fed
to
Heaven,
tut
I.
will'throw
thee downe
to
hell.
Now
followeth the tenth
verse,
which
is
fomewhat
difficult, and
Vs
toil
too
ergo,
we muff
dwell
a
little
on
the
explanation
of
it.
Firft, we
will
confider
of
the
connexion it
hath with the former, then
of
the
meaning
and parts
of
it,.
and
fo
come
to the
inffruélions
which
it
affordeth
:
For
the
dependance
of
it on
that whichgoeth before,
it may feem
brought
in
either as
an
explication
of
thole
words
in
the
verle
before,
the
mystery
of
his
Wif,
or
as an
effect
intended by force thing which
is
in
the former
vprfe
reported.
The
firft fenfe
is
to
be
taken up
after this
fort;
God
bath
6pened to
us
themysery
of
his will,out
ofhisgraciosos
pleafare;Where I mean
nothing by the myffery
of
his
wil,but
that
he meant
in fulnelfe
of
time
to
gather
toa
head in
Chrift,with thofe
thingsalready
in
heaven,
all
things
in
cart
h,even
an
univerfal
Church,throughthe
face
of
the
earth: this
can-
not,as
Ì
think,be
an
expofition
of
thole formerwords;For to
fay
nothing
that
the Gloffe
is
harder then the
Text
;
words which are adjoyned by
.
way
ofconftrue%ion, are
not commonly
fo
far removed from them
they
confrue,
as
you may
fee in
the 7.&
r
3.ver.
of
this
Ch.and
all
abroad.
Again, the Apoftle
by other
equivalent terms
in
the
a
3.verfe
doth
open
what he meaneth by
themyflery
of
Gods
will,vie.
no
other thing
then
the word
oftruth,and
Gofpel
of
falvation.
Thirdly,
that
mysery
made
known,didwork
in
them
all wifdome &underftanding,made
them
wife
in
good full meafure
to
falvation;
but
the
knowledge
of
this, that God
L
would