Verf. 1,2,3. the 40 le to the Romans. 327 Athing nn- him, el fe there had been no caufe of For his brethren,] he meaneth, in their filch awifh. flead and room, or in their behalf, as Tim. What it it to be feparated from Chrift is laid to have dyed for us. Chrift ? TIM. What are the dot rinestobelearn- S I L. To be removed and put from edfrom this' verfe ? the favour of God, from the falvation Si L. It teacheth, that Chriflians purchafed by Chrift,and from all hope mull be carried with a great delire of of it, and in a word, to perifh and be others falvation, and namely, of fuch condemned for ever.For without Chrift as are neereft unto them; as their Acinf- there can be no grace ofGod,no fslva- men,children,fervants,ftocke or linage., tion to hope of being ftved, nothing The reafon is, becaufe falvation is the but condemnation. greateft good we can procure to any, TIM. But did Paul well in praying for his therefore in the furthering of it, our own damnation? o* whether was it his prayer love fhould moftappear. that he might perifh? To M. What profit is to be made of this Si L. The truth is, Paul. makes np point? Heard of, loch prayer,and if he had,he had finned Si L. It reproves fuch as earneftly that for pl aying unlawfully and defire other good thing stotheirs but Chra,fake greatly in oae Mould vainely. The realms be: Firft,becaufe are cold in difcrying and feeking the par wdh ued robe prayer his had croffed the conft-ant chiefgopd. Secondly, itcomtonteth all fe frnmchnft. pu rpbfe ofGod, and his owne certain that finde any meafure of this delire in them, that they are guided by the Spi- rit of God. Laftly, it exhorts all men to firive for a greater meafure of it, becatife it will be a witneffe that they are led by the fame Spirit that was in Paul. Tim. What other iuftrnilion from hence ? St L. It proves that Chrifts love ex- ceeds all love, becaufe he indeed was made that for us fanners and his ene- mies, which Paul could have wifhed to bemade for his brethren,which is to be a cgrfe,Gal. 3.13. TIM. What ufe of thif ? Si L. It warneth us after Chriffs ex- ample (efpecially Paflors) deeply to loveand thirft after one anothers fal- vation. Secondly, it rebukes all others, which either by comifell or evil exam - ple,help forwards others dam I tation,or by keeping away the meanes ofeternall life wholly, or in part,in fubllance, or degree. nierem. Like ro that of Chrift, Fa- ther Wit be poffible. So ought MO' fa prayer to be un- derftood, tend. %lot mean, &e. perfwauon fpoken of in the former Chapter.Secondly, Paul was not bound, to preferre the falvation of the Jewes before Chrift and his grace. T Isl. If he did not make a prayer here to be cut off fram CI.rifi, what then thinke you of it ? Si L. The fence of the Apoftles words are thus much : that he could have wifhed to be cut off from Chrift, and fo to have delivered the Jewes from damnation by the loffe ofhis own fal- vation, had it been pofble. For the f peech isconditionali,(ifit night have been) he could have wifhed to be damned for them,that he being but one had rather perifhed then fitch a multi- tude. Like unto that (peach of David, wifhing that he might have died for his fon Abfalon : which as it bewrayeth DavideaffeEtion for his fon, fo this fufliciently difcovers Pauls exceeding great affeEtion for the Jewes,how great it was. But as David knew that his life could not redeem the death ofhis fon, (being already dead,) fo it fared with Paul. T I at. Whom doth he mean here by his brethren? SI L. The Jewes which were his kinfnien, as being all Ífraelites of his flockeand bloud:and whereas he faith, Ff t) A.
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