·~ Serm.X!V. ~ An Expofition of the epijlle _ __::..._ _ ___.c_ ·This in general of both thofe Verfes, I come particularly to the fifth Verfe. • VER~E ;. Even when we were dead in Sin1, bath quicfeted 111 together with C!Jrifl: (By Grace ye are foved. ) Thefe w.ords, they are a redi~ion to the I 9th Verfe of the firfl: Chapter, and do referthtther. He had !hewn what a Power and Glory was exercifed in railing up Chrifl: when he was dead, andfetting him up in heavenly places, and had faid, the fame Power works towards us : Now faith he, Ye are dead, and dead in Sin1 and Tref}ajfe1, and he bath quicfeted you, and he bath Jet you together with Chrifl in he.venly Plaw. .And whereas iri the I 9th Verfe of the lirfl: Chapter he had attributed it to the Power of God, he alterS the cafe hete, he attribut~ it unto Mercy, and he attributC'l it unto Love, and he attributes it unto Grace becaufe (as I !hewed you in the Obfervations upon the 4thVerle) that all Attri: butes do but fubferve Love and Mercy, in whatfoever they do fo~'us; and there– fore he names them. If he would have made it up according to the courfe and way of Speech, he !hould have faid, Look what great Power wrought in Chrifr in railing him up from the dead, wrought in you, in quickning you when y~ were dead in Sins and Trefpaffes: But he mentions not Power, but, God who# rich in Mercy, for the great Love wherrnlith he hath loved 111, evenwhen we were dead in Sin1, hath quicfeted 111. There are three things in this Verfe : 1. A !hort Repetiti\)n of, and minding them again ofthat ConditionGod found them in, by intimation of the main thereof, fo to remember the whole : Eve., ~~~~~~ · . 11. The firfl: Benefit befrowed, the firll: D~ree and Fou~dation of Salvation laid in this Life;·!f<!!icfeted. • Ill. A quick and moll: piercing ~ore of Obfervatjon of the Apoll:le by the way, as an Inference from both, bemg putat once together, (By Grace 1e are ~ozxd:) Which, like·the Top·and P6int of a burning Pyramif, or great Flame of Fire, bath all the ll:rength of Heat !hat arifeth out of the whole centred in it. And to fet the more remark upon it, it is brought-in-by a Parenthelis, and comes not in by continued Coherence, to atfell: the more; like a hand in the Margin. He would have them, above all elfe in his Difcourfe, have this in their eye. I. The Repetition, Even when we were dead in Sins. There are three things in thofe words. 1. The Conlideration of the Emphajii put upon this Repetition ; for it is not a bare Sentence of Repetition, but with an emphatical Note and Particle, Even when; as the word v.<Xl implies. ~. The Condition it felf repeated, Dead in Sin1; and that fingled out, •• more properly referring to ~icftning, fo more pertinently to illull:rate that firll: Benefit. . 3· ThePerfonsitisbell:owedupon, [Te] and [We.] J 1. Even : This word ""' here, fome would have to ~e redundant ; others would have it to be [ b11t,] as inv. 4· And fo Grotim, whofe Opinions engaged him to leffen the greatnefs of this De~th jn Sin, that the ~o~e mig~t be giv~n ~o Man's Will in his quickning. But tt has a double force 11\1 n, as 1t _comes ID ID this Coherence : • Firlt;
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=