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A
COMMENTARY
VPON
THE
FIFTH
CHAPT
R
OF
THE
Epiftle
of
S.
P
A
u
L
to
the
Ephefiarts.
CHAP.
j.
VERS.
I.
Be
ye
therefore followers
of
god
as
dearechildren.
N
this
Chapter the
Apoflle profecuteth,
and conclu-
deth
his
former exhortation,
verfe
3i,
32.
of
the
Chapter foregoing, touchingmutual' forbearing
and
forgiving
wrongs
and injuries done , and he
Both
in-
force
it
from the example of
God
himfclfe,
who
bath
pardoned
and forgiven
us
all our
fins
in
Chrift.
And
hecaufe it
is
a
duty hard for
fiefh
and
blood to come off
with,
the A-
poftle inferreth the example
of
Chrift himfelf,to
perfwade
Chriflians
to brotherly
love, from this confrderation
how
merciful'
and graci-
ous
God hath
beene unto
us in
pardoning
Al al
our
finnes
in
Chrift,
and
how
infinitely
Chrift
himfelfe hath abounded
in
love
to
us:
Then
the Apoftle inforceth
his
Exhortation from
the
diverfe
flee
and
condition
in
which thefe
Ephefians were
before,
and
now
face
their
Calling,
and
thereupon
dehorteth
frommany
vices
molt
unbe.
Teeming
the children
of
God,
and
cxhorteth
to the
praCtife
of
thofe
duties
which belt
fuited
with their
calling and condition.
The
lal
part
of
the Chapter fetteth
downe
an
exhortation
to
fubjeólion
in
fuch
conditions
of
life
wherein it
is
required,efpecially
in
the married
elate,
that
Wives
be fubjeéf
to their
husbands,
as
the Church
is
to
Chrift;
where by the way
is
laid
downe,
that admirable
myflerie
of
the
fpirituall marriage
betwixt Chrift
and his
Church.
The Chapter then
containes
three parts.
The
r
.
in
the two
fiat
verfes, inferred from
the latter part
of
the former
Chapter.
The
2. from the thirdverfe,
to
the
a
I.
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