to the E P H E S I AN S. And fall of all You that mean torepent, when you come to lie upon your~ Death-beds, if y~u dofo, what do you lofe l You lafitrufl wChriff, and. fo you Se.r.X!V. !hall be difhonoured. Is it not better to turn wlule you are young, and fo to_ be ~ of rhdfe that {irfl truflm Chnfl? The Apofile here you fee makes 1t a pnvllcdge of the _7ews, tha~ they were thofe thatfirfl trufledm Chrijl, And fo much likewife for the apphcanon 0f what he had fa1d unto the .7ews. To·c~me now to his application ef it to the Gmtiles. Iu whomye at{o, faith he, be faith no_n~ore; you have it indeed put into your tranflation, Tru{ifd, it is nor·in the Ongmal, but he fpeaks by way of Ellrpji;,_fllortly, and cutteth off his tpeech: In whomyou alfo,you Ephejirms, youGmtr!es; 1ou at{o, wh1ch you may refer either unto trufi'mg, wluch was m the verfe before; I11 whom you atfo tmfled, as well as they, though they firft, after you heard, for fo it followeth, Orelfe you may refer it (for the Holy Ghofi hath a comprehenlivemea~mg, and rhc Scripture is the lhortefl: wntmg m the World) to wh~t he had faid to the Jews, cutting off this priviledge, that theyfirfl tnif/edzn atrifl. In whom a!Jo ) Oil hwe obtaitred"" !~therita11ce, bemg predejlmatul accordmg to the. purpofe of hrm,whoworkethaOthi11g~s accordi11g to the cou11(eto[ hu own wt/1, that J•oujbould 6t to the prai(e of ~uglory; havwg a.'fo trufled 111 hrm whmyou heard of the Go(pel of trt<th,f!>c. You may refer J! mher to the one or to the other, and indeed to botil : For, my Brethren, the Apofile's fcope is to make application of all he had faid both to .'1ew and Ge11tile; now to go over the fame thing twice to both , it had not been fo comly, therefore he divideth them, and faith fomcthing of the .7ew, which he applieth to them ; and fomething of the Gentile, which he ~pplieth to them, yet fo as what is faid of the .Jew is applicable to the Gmtilt, !11 whom ye alfo had an Inheritance, andwert predem11t1ted,f!>c. And what is faid of the Ge~tite, that after they heard t'h~ word of trttth they belzeved, and werefoaled, IS true alfo·of the .'1ew; aod be• cau(e it would have been too long to mention them both, he divides it therefore . and cutterh it off with a lhorr fpeech, In whom you atjo, having reference to ali that weot before. So much for the Coherence. 'there are in this Verfe thefe Three things : r. That the Gmtiles did alfo trtif/ in Ghrifl and were called, and by calling had an Inheritance as well as the j<ws. '2., That this Calling, and the Faith of theirs, was by hearing the Gofpei . which he amplifieth by two E11comiums of it. ' I. That it is the wordof truth. '2., That it is theGojpet of their Satvatiott. 3· After that they had believed, they were foaled with the ;Spirit of Pro· mt(e. Thefe are the parts of this rJih verfe; . And firfi of all from this, That he faith the fame thing of the Genti!u that he faith of the .'1ews, (cutting off that priviledge that they were the firfi -) the .'1ews ttufied in Chrifi, and fo did the Ge_ntilt.r; the Ephejians trufied in Chnfi as well as the Apofiles, they were by Fa1th partakers of an Inheritance as. well as the Apofiles. What is the Obfervation from hence ? In a word thiS, That we are all faved·_by the fame Faith that the Apofiles are. We have all the fame common Inhentance, the fame common Faith. I will give you aScri· pture for both, Firfi, That we have a like Faith, :z. Pet;I.I, Peter alr.Apoflle of 'Je(us ChriJ/; to them that f:Clve obtained like preciour Faith with us, with us Apofifes, there– fore he mentwneth h1m~elf as an Apofile when he fpeaks it. We have likewife t he fame common falvatlon, the fame common Seal of the Spirit, I .7ohlt 1.3; 'l'hat wh:ch we have feen and hearddeclare we untoyou, that je alfo m'!Y havt feUowfhtp Wtth us; attd tr1tly our feUowjhip is wit~ the Fat'her,. tilrd with hi! S?n .Je[t14 C~rrff. We l:ave a!Turaoceof the love of God, and walk in comml!' mo_n wuh h1m; You,_ fa1th he, are capable of having the fame affurance, and we Wnte to you thefe thmgs, that you may have it; for the fcopeof that Epifile is tC
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