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A
COMMENTARY
VPON THE
SECOND
CHAPTER
OF
THE
Epiftle
of
S.
PAUL
to
the
Ephefians.
CHAP.2.
VE
N.
I.
t.dnd
you
hath
he
quickned
that
were
dead
in trejbaJts
and
fns.
He Epiftle (as
I (hewed)
is
divided into three parts
;
t.
The
Preface.
a.
The
Matter.
3.
The
Conclufi.
on.
The matter
is
propounded
generally,
verfe
.
Prrf
cured
from the beginning of the fourth verfe,
to the
z
t.
verfe
of
the
trot
Chap.
It
is
either Doetri-
nall, or Exhortatory.
The
DoEtrinall
is
compre-
hended
in
thefoure
firft
Chapters,in whichthe
be-
nefits
the
Elett
enjoy by
Chrift,
arc laid down(im-
ply, Chap.
t
.
Comparatively in
this
Chapter
;
withall
the
fcandall
of
the
Crofle removed,
that thefethings might
the
better
be received.
Now
this
Chapter doth
contain
thefetwo
propofitions
;
t,
That
we,
when dead
in
fin, were railed up
in
Chrift,
to
ver.
t
o.
2.
A deduétion
hence,
which inferreth the happy eftate
of
the
Ephefians.
There words
hang
as
a
proofe ofthat
power
which
is
put
forth
toward
ea
that
beleeve,
Chap.
t,ver.
t 9.
in
this manner
:
In
fuch,who
being
fometimedead,
are
railed up,
(ver. 6.
Te are
let
is
heaven
with
Chrifi)
here
worketh
no leffe
power
then
that which
railed
Christ from the dead
:
But
you alfo (not onely
Chrift,
but you) hath
God quickned, &c.
Therefore there
is
an
exceeding power manifefted
in
you.
Such
whom God (being dead) bath
railed
upin
Chrift;
luch,
what
-
foever
they have been, are near
to God
in
Chrift,
having entrance unto
God
in
Chrift. Bayou
have
been
quickned
and railed
up,
and
fet
in
hea-
venly places
in him
:
Therefore remember, that
whatfoever you have
been, you
are
now
thus
and thus
in
Chrift.
T
Now
,
20
I
Order
of
this
Chapter.
Matter.
Árgumctat
r.
2.