up of the Gentiles might be accepable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost, xv. 9-13. 16. See also on Matt. xii. ver. 18. clause 5. e For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts, Mal. i. 11. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen, 14. Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name, Acts xv. 14. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, Eph. i. 6. 12. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people; but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy, 1 Pet. ii. 9, 10. VER. 6. A. D. 60. love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified, Rom. viii. 28-30. Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles, ix. 24. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, 1 Cor. i. 9. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel, Gal. i. 6. That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory, 1 Thess. ii. 12. Whereunto he called you by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thess. ii. 14. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 2 Tim. i. 9. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, Heb. iii. 1. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called Ἐν οἷς ἐστε καὶ ὑμεῖς, κλητοὶ Ἰησοῦ you out of darkness into his marvelΧριστοῦ·) lous light, 1 Pet. ii. 9. For even hereAmong whom are ye also b the called also suffered for us, leaving us an unto were ye called: because Christ of Jesus Christ : a In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, Eph. i. 11. Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth, Col. i. 6. And you, that were sometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled, 21. bAnd we know that all things work together for good to them that example, that ye should follow his steps, 21. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you, v. 10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall, 2 Pet. i. 10. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful, Rev. xvii. 14. A. D. 60. VER. 7. ROM. I. 7. A. D. 60. the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him Πᾶσι τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Ῥώμῃ, ἀγαπητοῖς | all the day long, and he shall dwell Θεοῦ, κλητοῖς ἁγίοις Χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη | between his shoulders, Deut. xxxiii. ἀπὸ Θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ | 12. That thy beloved may be deΧριστοῦ. To all that be in Rome, bbeloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, 8 and the Lord Jesus Christ. And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, Acts xv. 23. Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's, 1 Cor. i. 2. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia, 2 Cor. i. 1. Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons, Phil. i. 1. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Col. i. 2. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting, Jam. i. 1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied, 1 Pet. i. 1, 2. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called, Jude 1. bAs he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people: and her beloved, which was not beloved, Rom. ix. 25. And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of livered; save with thy right hand, and hear me, Psal. lx. 5. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved, Cant. v. 1. Put on there fore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering, Col. iii. 12. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort, 1 Tim. vi. 2. Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ, ver. 6. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful, Col. iii. 15. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 1 Thess. iv. 7. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, 1 Pet. i. 15. According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue, 2 Pet. i. 3. d Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. i. 3. Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Gal. i. 3. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 2. Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord, 1 Tim. i. 2. To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, Tit. i. 4. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Philem. 3. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctifica tion of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied, 1 Pet. i. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 2 Pet. i. 2. Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love, 2 John 3. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied, Jude 2. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, Rev. i. 4, 5. * For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom. xiv. 17. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost, XV. 13. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen, 33. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee, Psal. cxxii. 6. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again, Luke x. 5, 6. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thess. v. 23. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all, 2 Thess. iii. 16. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Heb. xiii. 20. See also on chap. v. ver. 1. clause 2. See on Matt. v. ver. 16.clause 3. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, A. D. 60. Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep, Acts vii. 59, 60. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, 1 Cor. xvi. 23. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong, 2 Cor. xii. 8-10. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen, xiii. 14. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen, Gal. vi. 18. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen, Eph. vi. 23, 24. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, Phil. iv. 13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, 23. Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 1 Thess. iii. 11-13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen, v. 28. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all, iii. 16. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, 18. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. 2 Tim. iv. 22. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. | Amen, Philem. 25. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, Rev. xxii. 21. VER. 8. Πρῶτον μὲν εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Θεῷ μου διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ὑπὲρ πάντων ὑμῶν, ὅτι ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν καταγγέλλεται ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ. First, I thank my God bthrough Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. a But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, Rom. vi. 17. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. i. 4. Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, Eph. i. 16. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now, Phil. i. 3-5. We give thanks unto God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, Col. i. 3, 4. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father, 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God, iii. 9. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth, 2 Thess. i. 3. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother | A. D. 60. Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also, 2 Tim. i. 3—5. I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints, Philem. 4, 5. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father, 2 John 4. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth, S John 3, 4. b See on John xiv. ver. 13. clause 2. © For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil, Rom. xvi. 19. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we hrad unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 1 Thess. i. 8, 9. d And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come, Matt. xxiv. 14. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed, Luke ii. 1. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar, Acts xi. 28. VER. 9. Μάρτυς γάρ μου ἐστὶν ὁ Θεὸς, οι λατρεία ἐν τῷ πνεύματί μου, ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελία του υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως μνείαν ἡμῖν ποιοῦμαι· For a God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; a I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me wit ness in the Holy Ghost, Rom. ix. 1. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high, Job xvi. 19. Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth, 2 Cor. i. 23. As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth, xi. 10, 11. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not, 31. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not, Gal. i. 20. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 8. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe, 1 Thess. ii. 5-10. Whereupto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity, 1 Tim. ii. 7. b But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth, John iv. 23, 24. After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome, Acts xix. 21. For there stood by me this night the angel of | A. D. 60. God, whose I am, and whom I serve, xxvii. 23. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also, 1 Cor. xiv. 14, 15. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the Gospel, Phil. ii. 22. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, iii. 3. Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily, Col. i. 28, 29. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, 2 Tim. i. 3. See on ver. 1. clause 5. d Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way, 1 Sam. xii. 23. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint, Luke xviii. 1. Peter therefore was kept in prison; but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him, Acts xii. 5. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints, Eph. vi. 18. Pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. v. 17. I thank God, whom I serve from my · forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, 2 Tim. i. 3. e Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, Phil. i. 4. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence, till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, |