to the EPHESIAN S. "-.AJ""' So that noW thefe Words, that are !ranflated, Ailioilg >v!Jobt, h . Scrm. V. t cy note out ~ two things : . _ . i. The Manner of their Converfauon, that they walked ad euudem moclum ? or, 35 the vulgar TranOation hat~ it, ad tptet;t.m!l~llm, 1n the (~me Sms : !f!.!!.e,;-:– admodum vos, ita & nos; Look as they Genules walked, fo chd ye Jews. · . 2 • It imports alfo, that their Perfons are to be reckoned m the f.1me Number ; ex eadem 111111 mo, they are m the fame Nu!l)ber; and are to be put m eadem albo, in the fame Rank and Catalogue With the Gentiles. Now there is an ObjeCtion or two againfl: either Interpretation; for I take in both, therefore I mufl: remove the ObjeCtions agairifl: both. The firfl: ObjeCtion, that by <vots, !hould not be meant, In whic!J Si11s, is this: For fay they that are of another mind, tlien it !hould have been in the FeminineGender,'' oils, finee'11XIs .<1-""p-rl«<l, was the lafl:word mentioned in thefirfl: Verfe · therefore if it referred toSins, it !hould have been in the feminine Gender. Bur' that receiveth an eafy Anfwer ; for as there is "~""~-rloc<s, fo there is '1111'-~71"1.01-"'"• namely, Trejpajfes, in the Neuter Gender. Bttt the Anfwer that Efti111 gives, is this, That it refers to both, rho the one be the Neuter,_and the other the Feminine Gender; yet when be makes the Participle, he laitb, It re– fers unto both : therefore that Interpretation, l11 which, wiH !bnd. Then again, as for that other, Among whom, as our Ttan!lation renders ir, that that is more efpecially meant, is clear, becau[e the nearef\: ConneCtion cloth carry it, the other is a rnore remote Connection: For if it · be, In whirh Sins, it mufl: refer to the firf\: Verfe, and there comes in between the whole fccond Verfe; but if it refer to the Perfons, Among whom, then it referreth in the next .Coherence: Among whom (namely, whichChildren of Difobedience,) we a/Jhad •011r Converfation; which are the words jufl: before. But theri! is this ObjeCtion ilgainfl: that, tay they that are of another Mind : All the Jews were not Children of Difobeclience ; for Childrw of D"ifobedience, dotb imply Perfons eminently wicked, in a more fpedal manner; as Childrw of Be/i,zl did : Now the Apof\:le fartb, Among whom all we had our ConverfotiiJJt : Now fay they, all the Jews bad not their Converfation among Children of Difobedi– enee; there were fame more eminently Children of Difobedience amongfl: the Jews, as well as amongfl: the Gentiles. This is the ObjeCtion again(\: -that Interpretation. · But the Anfwer is cafy: For in the firfl: place, Children of Difobedience, cloth not only note out Men emin'ently wicked; but it is the common Expreffion given unto all unregenerate Men i Iri chap. 5· verf 6. For ivhith thh;gi ( f.1ith be) the Wrath of God cometh updn the Children of Difobecliwce. Neither, fecondly, will it follow in the ConneCtion, thdt all the Jews !hould have been Children of Difobcdiencc; but indeed this will folloiv, that they ·are to be reckoned of the fame rank witlr them; all unregenerate Men !hall belong, and do belong unto the fame Kmgdom, wtth the highefl: and emmenteft Sinners that are1 Therefore, faith he, never boaf\: yilur fdves, if you be Children of Difobedie11ce, if you walked among them, you were·of that Company, of that Drove. And indeed, and in truth; Thirdly, the Jews were in a more peculiar manner the Children of Difobedience, than the Gentiles were ; what's the reafon? Bc– caufe they bad the Law ; they are ftill called a fhff-necked People; which is not applied to the Gentiles; Difobedienceis in a more fpecial marmer attributed' unto them, becaufe they bad the means, efpecially when the Gofpel came upon them. . ' So now the Interpretation being fully cleared, that [ Amo11g whMt] teferreth to both, and the Reafon alfo, why it referretb to, ~n which; for I muf\: give you a reafon of tt, that, In which Sim ;·e walked,- rs alfo meant': The reafon of
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