E.P :ME· s. :!. 14, I), 16· ~ r----------------- And that which encr.ealtth the Difficulty is, That if it lhould be underfidod .of Re~onoillatlon unto God hi·mfe!f,; w~ought by Chrill: upon the Crofs, how fuch a R:t'<:onciliation lhould be the ~onfequent of his flaying firll: the Enmity be~ l\.,.een.the Saints themfdves ; fo as it lhould be faid, He flew the EnmitJ among the Sajnlf, tb~t he·might reconcile them to God? This is not confonant to Reafon, fee~ tng ratheP ( that according to the Harmony and Dependence of Theological Truths ) his reconciling them unto God upon the Crofs is the Antecedent, and 'Cau.(e of his flaying the Enmity of them mutually ; becaufe our Reconciliation OH~ with another is rather dependmg upon, and the Fruit of Reconciliation with -~d himfelf, who being firfr reconciled to us, all things elfe are reconciled one to another ' as Subjects that have been at variance, when reconciled to their Prince or Head, become reconc1led one to another among themfelves. · But yet I rather incline to think, that other kind of Reconciliation between God and us, wrought by Chrifr for us on the Crofs, to be intended, v. r6. and fo to be brought in as a Parallel with that former Reconciliation wrought by him alto on the Crofs, between and on behalf of the Jew and Gentile mutually : And fo this 16th Verfe to begin a new and entire Difcourfe, apart and fejunct from the other, namely, of our Reconciliation with God, as the former Verfes had dU: comfed of that Reconciliatiqn which is wrought for us between our felves. And fo the main Proportions of this Parallel are thefe : That as that Recon• -ciliation between Jew and Gentile, wrought by Chrill: on the Crofs, ·had two P"rts, 1. 'Pqfttive, making both one. 2 . Privative, the removing the Impedi– ment that caufed the Enmity, v. 15. (the Confequent of which is, the creating of both into onenew Man) : So the Apoll:le difcourfing, v. 16. of this other Reconciliation with God, he therein intends to make like two J>arts thereof, an– fwerable to the other, only with a tranfpofition of Speech. 1. 'Poftive, Recon– ciliation to God in one Body. 2. Privative, Having flain that Enmity, namely• llgainfr God. The refolution of all which is, as if he had laid, Whereas there was a double Enmity, one to God, another among our felves, Chrill: that is our Peace bath dealt with both : He having flain t.he Enmity between themfelves, bath made both one; and having flain in like manner· the Enmity to God, bath reconciled us unto God. · ·Now that which clears and confirms this ConneCtion, is : Firf1; That this renders a more full and jufr Analyfis of the Words, which is this : I. That in v. 14. he in general proclaims ~brill: our Peace. And then, 2. In the next words proceeds tO-the two·particular Branches, wherein Chrilt is made our Peace. · 1. Between our felves mutually. 2. Between God and us. And then, 3· In the handling ofeither, obferveth this Parallel in either, namely, between a privative part, flaying the Enmity, and a pofitive part, reconciling, and making one, fo enumerating the compleat Requifites to either. Then, Second!J, To lhew that thefe are indeed two disjunct and compleat Dif. courfes, of two fuch Heads of Reconciliation, he fevers the lirfr, v. I 5· from "the fecond, v. 16. by adding a full Period, and as it were a Se/ab to the "firfr, thus fealing up the 15thVerfe, So making Peace; namely, fully and com– pleatly, that Peace which had .been fpoken of among Jew and Gentile, that fo he might enter anew and dill:inctly from this, upon that other, ofreqmciling both unto God, which he doth, v. 16,
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