29Z VERS£3, Eph.4.8. Eph./.8. ThefaithfulareChriftsarnpeople. 111..6 ..................._-...... unto thee. Thc Abfira& being put for the Concrete; and the plurall for the fingular, notes how cxeeetijit., forward and free they fhould be; as the Lord to fignifibe that his people were moll rebellious, faith, that they were Rebellion it felfe, Etek. 2. 8. So then the mea. ning is , Thy people (hall, with moil readie and for- ward cheerefulneffe, devote , eonfecrate , and render up themfelves to thy government as a reafonable fa- crifice , (hall bee of a in-)f1 liberal', free, noble, and uncontirained fpirit in thy fervice, they (hall bee Va. lcmtaries in the warres of thy Kifigdome. In the Daj, of 7h7 Tower, or Of thine eArmies ] by thefe words wee may underhand two things, bothof them aiming at the tame general' fenfe : Fail, fo as that t .Armies] (hall bee the fame with [ Thy people] be- fore; In the Day when thou (halt atfemble thy Soul- 1 diers together, when thou (halt fet up thine-Enfignes for them to fake unto, that is, when thou (halt caufe ; the preaching of-"thy Gofpell to found like a Trum- pet, that men may prepare themfelves in 'armies to fight thy battels, then (hall all thy people with great devotion and willingnelfe gather theinfelves together under thy Colours, and freely devote themfelves to thy militarie fervice. Secondly, fo, as that by Power or t.irmies may bee meant the (Meow whereby this free and willing Devotion in Chrifis people is wrought : that is, when thou (halt fend fourth the Rod of thy arength, when thou (halt command thy Apoilles and Minitiers to gee forth and fight againh the kingdomes of Sinne and Satan, when thou (halt in the difpenfation of thine Ordinances reveale thy Power and fpirituall firength unto their Confciences, then than they inoti willingly.relinqugh their former fervice, and wholly devote thernfelves unto thee , to fight underthy haulers, andto cakethypart againa all thineenemies. Iss
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