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a.
2.
Ephefians,
Chap.a
1
;4.9
For the meaning
of
the words: you
muff
not
think
that
tile phrafe
[1f
yee
have
heard]
implyeth
a
doubting, but though
it
be conditio-
nally
propounded
,
yet the Apoftle
loth
take it
as
granted
:
fo
the
word
is
ufed i Pet.
2.3.
If
yee
have tailed
how
good the
Lord
ir:
So wee
ufe
to
fay in
common talke,
If
I
bee
to
bce
tru/ied,
I
will doe
this or
that,
not
that
we meane
to
call
our truth into queftion
by
fo
fpeaking.
Againe
it
may be asked,
What
difpen]ation
is! And
how
here to bee
QsefE.
conceived!
Difpenfation
is
nothing but
the
giving out
in
particular
Whndirpenfa
that which
one
bath with
him by great,
fo
as is
moft behoovefull for
do
°'S.
the family.
But one may hereaske,
How
it
is
to be underflood,whether on Gods
deg
part, or the Apoftles,
aëtively
or pafiively!
for
Col.
t.2
5. Paul faith hee
was made
a
Minifler according
to thedifpenfationofGod.
For
anfwer,
God
difpenfrng grace to him
mull
here be
underflood,
An/is.
becaufe
beedoth not
tell
in
the next
verfe,
3. what
hee
did, but what
God
did
tohitn.
Thirdly
,
what
is
to be meant by
[grace!]
ae
His
Minifteriall calling fo
termed,
becaufe the defigning
to
it is
of
grace, and
the faculty
qualifying
us
for
it ,
is
from
the
free favour
of
The
f
ea-
God,
Rom.
1.5
.
By
whomwe
have received grace
,
and
vlpofllelhiip
:
It
lede
riaing,
cal.
bath
theft
2
properties
:
t.
It
is
founded in
the
free pleafure
of
God:
why.
Gal.
t .p5.
when
it
pleafed
God, who
feparated
me
from
my
mothers
womb,
and
cad
me
by
his
grace.
t
Cor.
15. t
o.
By
the grace
of
God
I
am
that
1
am.
a.
All
that
fufficiency
which enableth any man to
difpenfe
the
myfteries
of
the Gofpell,
it
is
the
mcere grace of
God.
e
car.
15.
to.
In the
verfe, foure things might particularly be confidered.
1.
Gods
difpenfation.
2.
The
thing difpenfed.
3.
The initrumentby
whom,
the Apoftle.
4.
The
perlons towards
whom, to
you
Ephefians,
you Gentiles.
To
referre the fecond and
third
verfes to
the
eight verfe, three
thingsare to be marked.
e.
Howthe
Apoftle
doth
affure
them that
his
fufferings
were
both
caufed
through
them,
and alfo avayleable for
their
good
,
hee affureth this hence becaufe hee was called
of
God to
them. Whence we
learne,
That
the
onely
thing
to
ajare
the
Minigers and
the people,ahat
their
DO.
fuferings
arefor the
good ofpeople,
if
they know
themfelves
to
have
a
cal-
This
affureth,.
hag
from
God.
For what
are
Minigers themfelves, their workes,
fuffe..
miaiftersthat
rings,
all
are
yours,
even
for the further edifying
of
the Churches to
;ire
for
clh
rings
which
they
are given.
Whereas
if
they
have
no
calling, God
may
good
of
the
pel
fay
when they
fuller,
Who
required this
at
your hands!
you are
not
by
knówe
if
they
me led
into thefe things, but
have cart
your
felves
upon them with-
have.
caning
out my dire5tion.
from God.
Wherefore
it
is
profitable to know
that
we are called
of
God to
this
Vie.
or that people,
that
in
all
our
fufferings
we may
know God calleth
us
unto
them, they
(hall
further our reckonings
,
and bee
of
good
uf
e
to
our
people.
Hh
3
2
,
That