395 / 808
V
s
R.
lz.
Ephefianr,
Chap.;.
379
terly dejeéted under
any
Croffe
,
or at the rage
and
fury
of
wicked
perfecutors, feare
not
theirflares for whys the
hayres
of
your
head are
t
Per.;
tq.
allnumbred;
anda
f(imrow
falletb
not
u
the
ground
without the
wid
of
y'
2O
=9,a
°
btavenly
Father.
Laftly,it
is
comfortable
while we know
that
all
that good
which
God
bath
willed
to
us,he will
work
it
for
us,
faith,repenrance,
perfeve-
rance
in
grace
and falvation.
Did
our
good
depend upon our oívne
wills,
as
things exempted from fubjeetion
to
his
power,
all our
com-
fort were
at an end
;
if
the prefervation
of
me from eviti , and be-
flowing all
good
on me,
did not
depend entirely forprincipal!
efficacy
on
God,
farewell
all
Religion.
The
latter part
of
this verfe
hath
a
doubleconítruetion,for
either
it
may note
Chrift
as a
party purpofing with the
Father,or asa par.
ty
in
whom
this purpofe was
to
be
wrought
and
executed.
But
pf
thisfee
throbfervations
on
Eph.ch.
t.
e'. 4.5.1
paffe
ro
the
r
z.verfe.
V
E
RS.
12.
In
whom
we
have
boldneffe
and
acceffe
with
confidence
V
a R
E.
I2.
by
the
faith
of him.
Now
fblloweth
a
defcription
of
Chrift:
it
hath
two
members.
The
one
of
the
benefits we have
in
him.
The
other
of
the
mean
of
attainng thefe
benefits.
Thebenefits
are
two.
t.
Boldneffeor liberty.
2. Entrance with
confidence.
The
meane,
faith: let
out
by the object,
faith
on
him.
For
the opening
of
thebenefits, you mutt know
that
liberty here
is
that freedome.ofthe
confcience abfolved
from guilt
,
which maketh
demandto
God t
lohn
3.
2
I.
I
f
our
confciencecendernne its
not,
then
we
haveboldneffe
: even
to
make
that
requef
of
agood confcience.
Entrance
]
here
doch fignify
not
only
commingto
God
in prayer, =Pe[.;.
t.
but
all
that
rcfort
and
communion
which
we
cometo
have
with
God,
united by faith
to Chrift
Iefus;accordingto
that
t
Pet.3.t8.Chrifl
bath
once
fufered
for
finnes,the
jell
for
the
unjufi,that
he
might bring
us to
God.
In
confidence] cloth fignify fecxrely ,
without
tear`;
to dwell
ire
confidence,
thatis,fecurely,
none
affrighting.
Now
tó confrderthe
doarine
of
thefe benefits, which
is
the
ope-
ning
ofthem.
Doti. r:
Wee
fee
that
in Chrifi
onely
the
confcience
is
able to
plead
before-
God
the
In Chtin
only
righteoufnefJeefit.
Our
naturali
ftateis
defcribed,
Rom.
3. allegorical.
it our °°Fri
Judge,
God the
whte
`
able
to
a
e
the
match-
pll
eaea
d i[s
rigir
etors,the
law
the acculer, finneour indiétment,
and
what
is
rheiffuee
teourne
febe-
ever mouth
ú
flopped
before
Cad:and
fo what fhallin
the day
of
judge-,
Fore
God.
y
PP
Y
Rom.q.
t9.
ment
be
the
taking
of
the
wiekede
they
(ball
with monntaines to
fad
on
ReveL6,
t6.
them,
and
hide them
from
the
wrath
o
fthe
Lambe.
But in
Chrift
we come
to
plead
our righteoufneffe before
the Father:
Now eben
there
is no
coo.
items.
t.
demnationto thefè
thatare
in Chrift
lopes:
It
is
Chrifi
Marie
rifen,
yea
that
ved°
34
maketh
tntercef ton,who'hall
condemneua,
and
lay
any
thing
to
the
charge
ofusGods
chofen?
A
true-
Chriftian
his
chiefe courage and boldnef e
is
with-God,
hefoares nor,
nor cares not
what
men thinke ,
or
fpeake,
or