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V
ñ
R.
II.
Ephefian,r,
Chap.
+.
This
is
full
of
comfort to Poore
needy foules
;
I
fed
great want
of
vie
z.
knowledge,
I
know
nothing
as I
would,'great
cmptineffe
of
wifdome,
And
take cora-
1
cannot walk
in
the
place
God bath
fetme
,nor
carry my felfbefeem-
fors in our
wants,
th,e
ing,when
God
cloth
chaften and
try
me
with
aftliótions;
I
finde
a
great
thrill
bath
want
of
fear,
a
heart
void
of
love
to my God
, this
is
comfortable to
wherewith to
think
of.
O
Lord, thou
art
now
in
heaven filled with unmeafurable
flit"''
glory, that thou
mighteft thence
fill us
;
Holding to
fuch
faithful'
me-
ditations, we
fhall in
time work our
felves
out
of
all
wants.
Whatföever
grace we
have,
fee
whence
it
commeth
:
It
was
Pro.
Yfe
3.
phecied, That
theearth
jhould
befullof
knowledge
of
the Lord
;
now
fray
Inv,
what knowledge, what feare,
what
grace foever
I fee
filling any
of
the
Saints,
I
know it commeth from Chrift
afcended
to heaven,
and
there fitting
in
fulneffe of
glory.
VERSE
I
r.
He
therefore
gave
fome
to
be
vlpoflles,
and fome
VERS:
I
r,
Prophets, and
fame
Evangelifls,
-andfume
Rafters
and
Teachers.
Now
followeth the proofe
of
the
fecond member
of
the 7.
ver.
viz.
That
Chrift
giveth every
one his feverall
grace, or giveth
diver-
fity
of
gifts
;
this
he
proveth to the
17.
ver.
But
this
is
to
be
marked,
that
this may
feem
not to
prove that which
was
fpoken, becaufe
Chrift
is
not
laid
to
give gifts divers,
but
divers kinder
of
per
bons,
as
not the
gift
of Apoftlefhip,
but
vtpoffles.
vinfw.
The
gift
is
included
in
the perfon, for.he
is
an
Apoftle
that
bath the gift
of
Apofflefhip
;
thefe the holy
Ghoft taketh
as
infepa-
table
:
So
that
affirming divers
perfons gifted, he
together
affirmeth
diverfity
of gifts.
This
difcourfe bath
foue
parts
:
1.
He reckoneth
divers perfons
in
divers
funftions
given
by
Chrift, ver.
xi.
2. Divers
ends,
ver.
12.
3.
The
continuance
of
thofe that
are
ordinary,
ver,
13.
4. The
fruits
which mutt
follow
in us,
upon perlons
given
tofuchpurpofe,
ver.
r4.
For
this
a
I.
verfe,
we
muff
obferve
foute things for the
fruitfull
underftanding
of
it.
r.
That
thofe gifts here named
are all
of
them divers orders
in
the
Church. And
for underftandingthis;
they
muft
be particularly ex-
plained.
The
Apoftles were principali Minifters
given of
Chrift
for
WhoApoilles.
the founding
of
the Catholique
Church
; Gee
teach all
Nations,
Matth.s8.2.o.
Mat.
z
8. 2o.
I
like
a
Matter builder have laid
the
foundation.
The
word
I
cor.3
so.
is
ufed
fingularly
of
Chrift,
Heb.
3.1.
called
the
Apofile
and
High
the
Legatos
àlatere,
more commonly
with'
limitation,
as
Epaphroditus
an
Apo.
file
for
the
Philippians, and fo fume
Phtlip.a.
take Andronicus
and Ioniato be called Apoftles,
Rom.
16.7.
Rom.it.y.
More efpecially
of
the twelve,
called
Apotties,
not
from their
firft
fending,
mat.
I
o. but from that Commiffion
at
Chrifis Afcenfion,
Mat. z8.
and
the teftifying
of
it
by
Egnes, Ails z. 3.
joyned with
execution.
The
ap