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A
COMMENTARY
VPON
THE
THIRD
CHAPTER
OF
THE
Epiítle
of
P
A
u
L
to
the
Ephefians.
CHAP.
3.
VERS. I.
For
this
caufe
1
PAUL,
the
Prifenor
of
leftcs
Chrift
for
you
Gentiles.
His Epiftle divided it
Idle
I
told
you into three
parts:
r.
The
Preface.
a. The
Matter.
3.
The
Conclufion.
The
Matter containeth three bran-
ches
:
r.
It
propounded the benefit
fingly. a.
Did illuftrate
them by comparifon.
3.
Did
pre
-
vent
the
offence
of
his
bonds
,
and
fo
make way
for
the better entertaining
of
that
he
formerly
de-
livered:
Such being
his
Apoftolicall
care,left any
thing fhould occafion them to run
in
vaine.
The
fcope
of
it
is
to
take
away
all
diftaft
of
his
condition
and
fo all
prejudice
of
his dor`trine.
The
fumme
of
it
may be comprifed
in
thefe
two
fyllogifmes.
Whole
bonds
arecaufed
by you
and
tend
to
your good
,
you
muff
not be
afhamed
of
his
bonds, but rejoyce
in
them
rather:
But becaufe
of
you
I Paul
am
Prifoner,
and
for you
,that
is,
for your further
good and advantage:
Therefore
you
muff
not be
afhamed
of
me
nor
of
my
bonds.
The
fecond part
of
this reafon
is
in
the
r.
verfe.
The
conclufion
in
the
13.
verle.
From the
r
.
verfe
to
the
13.
he
proveth this
maine
argument,
by
a
profyllogifine,which you
may frame thus:
He who
bath
a
calling of
God to
you Gentiles,
the things hee
loth
or
fuffereth
in
executing this calling, are for
your good:
But
I
have
a
gracious calling
of God
towards you.
The
The (cope
of
the
third
Chapter.