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Ephefans,Chap.
z.,
V
E
R.
tI.
But
you
hath
he quickned
:
Ergo, &c.
Now
this
is
fet
down by way of Exhortation and Application.
Remember.]
And that
he
might the better
imprint the
benefit,
he
doth
amplifie it
by their former condition
in
Gentilifine.
In this verfe
Analyfis.
and
the
next, theirformer
condition
is
fet
down,
either generally,
or
more fpccially
:
Generally, they were
Gentiles
in
the
flefh ;
the
fpe-
ciall differences
following upon
it;
1.
They
had
not the
foal
of
Gods Covenant.
a.
They
had
not the
foundation
of
Gods Covenant.
3.
They
had no communion with
the Church.
4. They had no propriety
in
the Covenant, or promulgation of
the Covenant.
5.
Without
the
benefit
of
the
Covenant, the thing
hoped for.
6.
Without God.
Now
in
this Verfe we
are
to
confider
;
t.
Of
the
generali
difference
of
the
Jew and Gentiles
in
the
flefh.
a.
It
is
to be
marked
that they
are called [Yncircumcifion;]
whe-
ther they were rightly fo called.
3.
What
was
the
principali
note
of
people,
diftinguilhed
from
people; the Sacraments.
4. The
defcription
of
Circumcifion, there
being
two
parts or
kindes;
inward and outward.
The
thing
is
a.
propounded ;
a.
proved from
verfe
4.
to the
19.
3. amplified.
Propounded,in
Chrifi
you
are
near.
Argument
t.
a. He who
is
the Author
of
all
peace
twixt
man and man,
in him
you are made near:
But this
is
Chrift.
2.
z.
He
who
bath made
us
into one,
and abolifhed all enmity twixt
man and man, and
God
and man, That
he
might
make
tee
one
man, and
reconcile
ue to God
;
he
is
the Author
of
our peace:
But this
is
Chrift,
verf
14, 15,16.
2. He thus
proveth
it,
Whofoever hath
publifhed our
peace,
verf.17.
3.
He,
in
whom
we
finde
entrance
to the
Father,
he
is
our peace,
verf. 1$.
Dáár:
In
generali obferve
There
mu
be
a
remembrance
of
our
mi
erable
Remember shy
miferable
con-
airionby
na_
,
condition
b
nature.
The
Lord for this
caufe
one]
doth
leave
a
flink
y
y
of
fin in
us,
which
may break
out often to
our heavinefie.
Now
in
turc.
ftead
of
frtting down
this by way
of
Conclufion,
he
delivereth
it
in
an
Apoftolicall
Exhortation, with
Application
to the
perfons whom
he
exhorteth. a.
The
thing he would have remembred,
two
-fold:
a.
What
they had been.
2.
What
they
Were.
Now
this
latter
part
in
the Verfe, to the
end
of
the Chapter,
is
proved and amplified
:
proved
to the
19.Verfe;
amplified
from thence
to the end.
.
Doll.
Here then
firft in
generali
we
fee,
What
is
the
duly
ofthe
r
inifters
of