to theEPH E S I AN S. SERMON XVIL E. P H E S. 1, i4. Who is the Earneji of our Inheritance, Until (or,for) the redemption of the purcbafed pof[effion , 'Hnto the praife of his glor)'. · · I N the Jit'fi place, for the reference 0~ thefe words to the former, Who is tht Earflt/f. It referrethnoturito Chnfi 1 m whom yo~ are fealed, as .Faber StapuletJjis would have it; but they refer to the Spirit of Promife men– tionedimmediate.lybefore. Aridtoputusout of doubt in it, irt2Cor.)·)· it is called the Earfltf/ of the Spirit. C!irifi is called no .where an Earneft, . Then Secondly, For the fcope of his words, the Verfe I have read t'o you IS the conclufion of all about the benefit• be!towed upon us, and of the Ap.:sfiles application of thefe benefits both to Jew and Gmtile. He had enumerated all forts of Benefits, EleEiiofl, Prtdtf/ifi.:Jtofl, our RtdemptiDil by Chrifi, our Voca• tion, and Faith and Stating. In enumerating of all thefe benefits his fcope is, to mention the fpecial glory that all the thre~ Perforis have, and are to have from: us in the work of our falvation. · And fo his {cope is here to I!Jew, how great a gift of the Holy Ghofl is added unto all that Chrifi bath done for us, ~nd unto all the Father bath done for us, of which he had fpoken in the for!fier Vet!es. As he had fer out the Father's work in EteEfion, in the 4th, 5thand 6th Vertes i Jefus Chrifi's work in Redtmption, in the 7th and the 1oth Verfe : fo here his (cope is to fet forth the great benefit we have by the Holy Ghofl ; the greainefs of that gift, U'eartfealtdbyhim, wbo;, (faith he) the E.mu f! of our l•Jhe– rita!Jct. It is the tonclillion of all, and fo comprehendeth all that eithertlie Spirit is to us, or works in us;. it exprelfeth the grearnefs of the gift of the Holy Ghofl to us, and the ufe that that gift is to us, So you have the reference of the words; you have the coherence and fcope of the words. No\v for the divilion of the words, you have three things contained in ibis Verfe eminently. The Firfi is, That the Holy Ghofi is art Erirneji. . . . . The Second,Of what he is an Earntfl? of an l11hrritdnce. Until when? Vil• til the rtdemption of tht poffi.{fiotJ of that Inheritance. And then Tl>irdly, The End of all, To tbt/raij( of hu glory . I mufi ~rfi begin to explain the Holy Gbo his being an Ear11rjl; arid lim, t 1hall e".pla1ti the phrafe unto you, What that imp6rteth iti it felf: And St:condly 1 how 1t IS to be underfiood, that the Holy Gboft he is ati Earnefl. Arid lirfi for the phrafe Earnef!, What is meant by that. •Apr•f.;,, It is a word wh1ch tbeGrttks had from the Jews; and although it is not only ilfed in the Ne~Tefiament by the Holy Ghdfi, but by profane Writers alfo; }·et the Grtrks had 1t ftom the Tyrzan Merchants, and fo ufed it irt their bargains as an I;:arneft of the whole fum in bargaining. Thay ufed it likewife for any other kidd of Earnefi whatfoever. The He6rtwword is of a larger fignificatiqn, it takes ii1a Pledgeor 'Pau"', as you call1t. You know iti your Englt]b phrafe a P awl: is ode thing, :i Pledg.. is another. Now the word that the Ji'!Jl.~ ufed, from wheiice this is fetched , fighi– fieth aPledg, , aP awn, :iswell as aii Earntft: As Gm. 38. •7· there Tamardoth: F f require
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