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Both these privileges are again repeated, and further are evidenced in the following verse; "Thou art His peculiar people, therefore will He make thee high above all nations, in praise, name and honour, of more esteem than any; and, thou keepest His commandments, and so He advanceth thee to be a holy people unto the Lord thy God:" all this evidenceth God's approbation of an engaging heart.
By actuating grace so in the soul, that it manifesteth itself, and evidenceth itself to be there; as the heat and burning of a fire will discover itself without other tokens. The fourth particular, to wit, how the soul should be exercised, or how it should employ Christ, for an outgate from this, hath been abundantly cleared above, where we shewed, that believers in this case should,
The denomination of these officers, governments, evidenceth that they are governing officers, vested with rule in the Church. But this will be easily granted by all. All the doubt will be, whom the apostle intended by these governments?
We answer, and this is the second particular, that he doeth it for holy and wise reasons, whereof we may name a few; as, To punish their carelessness and negligence; as we see he did with the spouse, Cant. v. To chastise them for their ill-improving of his favour and kindness when they had it; as the same passage evidenceth.
Then, after the apostles had received the gifts of the Holy Ghost, &c., Acts ii., great multitudes of Jews and Gentiles were converted to Christ, and being converted, incorporated and associated themselves into churches, as the history of the Acts, chap, ii., and forward, evidenceth abundantly. 2.
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