PTH D. II his good pleafure. 14. Do all things" without murmur ings, and difputings: 15. That ye may be blameless [Or, fincere and harmlefs, the fons of God, without rebuke, in the midft of a crooked and perverfe nation, b e among whom * ye fhine [Or, fhine ye] as lights in the world. 16. Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Chrift, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 17. Yea, and if I be* offered [Gr. poured forth] upon the facrifice and fervice of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. 18. For the fame caufe alfo do ye joy, and rejoice with me. 19. * But [ Or, moreover] I truft in the Lord Jefus, to fend Timotheus fhortly unto you, that I alfo may be of good comfort, when I know your ftate. 20. For I have no man * like-minded, [Or, fo dear unto me] who will naturally care for your ftate. 21. For all feek their own, k not ready to be offered, and the Time of my departure is at hand. † Rom. 15. 16. That I should be the Minifter of Jefus Chrift to the Gentiles, miniftring the Gospel of God. h t2 Cor. 7.4. See on A&ts 5.41. i Col. 1. 24. 19. See on A&ts 16. 1. k 20. Pfal. 55. 13. But it was thou, a Man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 1 21. ti Cor. 10, 24, 33. Let no Man feek his own: but every Man anothers Wealth. Even as ! please all Men in all things, met Seeking mine own profit, but the Profit of many, that they may be not fa Scriptures our Salvation is fometimes afcribed to God, but then it is no lefs true, that it is fometimes afcribed to us. It belongs to God, as the fift and principal Caufe; to Man, as working together with God. We cane not work without God, and God will not generally offer Violence to the Creature he has made, and fo work without us. Hence that of St. James, Chap. 4. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you, cleanse your Hands, ye Sinners, and purifie your Hearts, ye double minded. Hence we are commanded, Eph. 4. 22, 23, 24, to put off the old Man; to be renewed in the Spirit of our Mind; and to put on the new man which after God is created in righteoufnefs and true holiness. How great therefore and how dange Tous is their mistake, who imagine that God is to do all in the Conver fion of Sinners, and that there is nothing left for them to do? 111 r not the things which are Jefus Chrifts. 22. But ye know the proof of him, that as a fon with the father, he hath lerved with me in the gospel. 23. Him therefore I hope to fend prefently, fo foon as I fhall fee how it will go with me. 24. But I truft in the Lord, that I alfo my felf fhall come fhortly. 25. Yet I fuppofed it neceffary to fend to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour, and P fellow-foldier, but your 4 meffenger, and he that miniftred to my wants. 26. For he longed af ter you all, and was full of heavinefs, because that ye had heard that he had been fick. 27. For indeed he was fick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me alfo, left I fhould have forrow upon forrow. 28. I fent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye fee him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the lefs forrowful. 29. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladnefs, and hold fuch in reputation [Or, honour fuch]: 30. Because for the work of Chrift he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life to " fupply your lack of fervice toward me. 24. Phil. 1. 25. Having this confidence, I know that I fhall abide and continue with you all. † Philem. ver. 22. I trust that 10 through your Prayers I fhall be given unto you. CHAP. Even fo hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the Gospel, fhould live of the Gofpel. Gal. 6. 6. Let him that is taught in the 5 Word, communicate to him that teacheth in all good things. I Thef. 5. 12, 13. We befeech you, Brethren, to know them which la bour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to efteem them very highly in Love for their Works fake. t1 Tim. 5. 17. Let the Elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, efpecially they who labour in the Word and Doctrine. Heb. 13.7, 17. Remember them which have the Rule over you, who have fpoken unto 20 you the Word of God: whofe Faith follow, confidering the End of their Converfation. Obey them that have the Rule over you, and fubmit your felves, for they watch for your Souls. 25. Phil. 4. 18. - I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were fent from you, 15 an Odour of a fweet fmell, a Sacrifice acceptable, well-pleafing to God. Pt Philem. ver. 2. See on I Tim. 1. 18. * 1 Cor. 16. 18. They 25 have refreshed my Spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are fuch. 1 Cor. 9. 14. 30. 1 Cor. 16. 17. I -That which was lacking on your part, they have fupplied. F c CHA P. III. a ત b INALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the fame things to you, to me indeed is not griev ous, but for you it is fafe. 2. Beware of Dogs, beware of evil-workers, beware of the concifion. 3. For we are the circumcifion, which worship God in the fpirit, and rejoice in Chrift Jefus, and have no confidence in the flefh. 4. Though I might alfo have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might truft in the flesh, I more: 5. h Circumcifed the eighth day, of the ftock of Ifrael, of the tribe of Benjamin, an (1) Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the Law, a Pharifee; 6. Concerning zeal, perfecuting the church; touching the righteouliefs which is in the law, blameless. 7. But what things were "gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for 4. a 1 I. † 2 Cor. 13. 11. † Phil. 4. Luk. 1. 46, 47. 5 2. b. Ifa. 56. 1o. His watchmen are Blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb Dogs, they cannot bark; fleeping, lying down, loving to flumber. Gal. 5. 15. If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not confumed 10 one of another. ct 2 Cor. 11. 13. Such are falfe Apoftles, deceitful Workers, transforming themfelves into the Apoftles of Chrift. d . Gal 5. 2. See on A&s in Truth. נננ Chrift. 8 t 2 Cor. 11. 13. Seeing that many glory after the Flefb, I will glory alfo. h 5. † Gen. 17.,12. He that is eight Days old fhall be circumcised among you, every Man-child in See on Rom. See on Acts 6. Gal. 1: 13. † A&s 9. I. See on Acts 8. 3. See alfo on Joh. 15 16. 2. 20 in Rom. 10. 5. Mofes defcrib. eth the Righteousness which is of the Law, That the Man which doth thefe things fhall live by them. 7. "Mat. 13. 44. The King dom of Heaven is like unto Trea fure hid in a Field; the which when a Man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth f. † Joh. 4. 23, 24. The Hour cometh, and now is, when the true Worshippers fhall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. God is a Spirit, and they that worship 25 and felleth all that he bath, and him, muft worship him in Spirit and buyeth that Field. (1) He whofe Father, or whofe Mother was an Hebrew, was called an Hebrew; but he whofe Parents were both Hebrews, was called an Hebrew of the Hebrews. The Apofde was on all Accounts a true Jew by Deffent, by Nation, and by Language. s Chrift. 8. Yea doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Chrift, 9. And be found in him, not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufhefs which is of God by faith: o. That I may know him, and the power of his refurection, and the fellowship of his fufferings, being made conformable unto his death. 11. If by any means I might ttain unto the refurrection of the dead: 12. Not as hough I had already" attained, either were already" perect but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Chrift Jefus. 13. Brethren, count not my felf to have apprehended: but this one hing I do, c forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, 14. prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling fGod in Chrift Jefus. 15. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherife minded, God fhall reveal even this unto you. 16. Nevertheless, 10. * Rom. 4. 25. Who was ivered for our Offences, and was Ted again for our Juftification. Ꮳ 12.tr Tim. 6. 12. Fight the good Fight of Faith, lay hold on eternal Life. at Heb. 12. 23. See on Heb 513. 21. 13 b See on Luk. 10. 47. Pfal. 45. 10. Hearken, O Daughter, and confider, and incline thine Ear; forget alfo thine st Rom. 6. 3, 4, 5. Know ye 1o own People, and thy Fathers t that fo many of us as were ptized into Jefus Chrift, were tized into his Death? Therefore : are buried with him by Bapm into Death, that like asis rift was raifed up from the ad by the Glory of the Father, en fo we also fhould walk in wnefs of Life. For if we have en planted together in the Like-20 s of his Death, we shall be alfo the Likeness of his Refurtion. † 2 Cor. 4. 10. † 2 Tim. † 1 Pet. 4. 13. ts 14. 22. I, 12. See on 25 - Houfe. Luk. 9. 62. No Man having put his Hand to the Plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God. at Cor. 9. 24, 26. So run that ye may obtain. I therefore fo run, not as uncertainly,† Heb. 6.1. Leaving the Principles of the Do&rine of Chrift, let us go on unto Perfection. 14. et Heb. 3. 1. See on Rom. 3.7. 15. ft1 Cor. 2. 6. See on Heb." 13. 21. vertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us wall by the fame rule, h let us mind the fame thing. 17. Bre thren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk fo, as ye have us for an enfample. 18. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross o Chrift: 19. Whofe end is deftruction, m whofe God i their belly and " whofe glory is in their fhame, who mind earthly things.) 20. For P our converfation is in heaven from whence alfo we look for the Saviour, the Lord Je fus Chrift: 21. Who fhall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, ac cording n k 18. Gal. 6. 12. See on Gal. 4. 29. 19.12 Cor. 11. 15.-Whofe End [the Minifters of Satan] fhall be according to their Works. mt Rom. 16. 18. They that are fuch, ferve not our Lord Jefus 15 Chrift, but their own Belly. Minds, and deftitute of the Truth fuppofing that Gain is Godliness. Tit. I. II. - Teaching thing which they ought not, for filthy Lu 5 cres fake. 2 Pet. 2. 3. Through Cou toufnefs fhall they with feigne Words make Merchandife c you. 20. Pt Eph. 2. 6, 19. And hat 10 raised us up together, and made u fit together in heavenly Places i Chrift Jefus. Now therefore y are no more Strangers and Foreig ers, but Fellow-citizens with th Saints, and of the Houfhold God. Col. 3. 1. If ye then b nt Hof. 4. 7. As they were in- rifen with Chrift, feck thofe thing creafed, fo they finned against me: which are above.therefore will I change their Glory, ti Thef. I. 10. into Shame. + 2 Cor. 11. 12.-That 20 See on 1 Cor. 1. 7. I may cut off occafion from them which defire occafion, that wherein they Glory, they may be found even as we. Gal. 6. 13. Neither they themselves who are circum-25 cifed keep the Law; but defire to have you circumcifed, that they may glory in your Flesh. - 18. Rom. 8. 5. They that are after the Flefh, do mind the things of the Flesh.- 2 Cor. 12. 17, Did I make a Gain of you by any of them I fent unto you? Titus make a Gain of you? Did - I 21.. I Tit. 2.1 f 1 Cor. 15. 43, 48, It is fown in difhonour, it is raife in Glory: It is fown in Weakness, is raifed in Power. As is the earthy fuch are they alfo that are earthy and as is the heavenly, fuch ar they alfo that are heavenly. An as we have born the Image of th earthy, we fhall alfo bear the mage of the heavenly. Col. 3.4 When Chrift who is our Life fhal appear, then fhall we also appre with him in Glory. Joh.. -We know that when he f Tim. 6. 5. Men of corrupt 35 appear, we shall be like kim. |