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A35951	An expositon of all St. Pauls epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude : wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened. / David Dickson ...; Expositio analytica omnium Apostolicarum Epistolarum. English	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Retchford, William.; Dickson, David, 1583?-1663. Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews.	1659 (1659)	Wing D1403; ESTC R7896	807,291	340

contrary hee is condemned In the second verse a reason of this is subjoyned because the judgement of God is just and according to the merit of the deed condemns every sinner both him that judgeth and him that is judged Therefore hee which according to the judgement of God condemns another to death for sin condemns himself doing the like things Vers. 3. And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgement of God This Argument in the following part of the Chapter is confirmed removing the four pretended Objections whereby men may evade the force of the Argument Object 1. Hee securely contemns the judgement of God who because God hath hitherto spared him promiseth himself impunity or freedome from punishment when hee judgeth others I am not afraid saith hee of the judgement of God The Apostle refutes this Objection and proves it null by six Reasons Reas. 1. That such an imagination is vain and foolish for Thinkest thou c. which is the same as if hee had said In vain doest thou think to escape the judgement of God Vers. 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Despisest Reas. 2. Such an imagination puts contempt and abuse upon the riches of the bounty forbearance and gentleness of God when any one because God hath spared hitherto goes on in sin and conceives hopes to go unpunished Bounty Reas. 3. That the bounty of God ought to invite and move to repentance not to go on in sin out of hopes to go unpunished Vers. 5. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God Hardness Reas. 4. That such a thought is the hardening of our hearts in sin and a sealing of them up that wee cannot repent Treasure Reas. 5. That hee who securely contemns the judgement of God heaps up unto himself a kinde of treasure of punishments from divine justice to the time of that last and terrible judgement wherein that whole treasure of punishments in the most righteous anger of God shall bee openly poured out upon him Vers. 6. Who will render to every man according to his deeds 7. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life 8. But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath 9. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile 10. But glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile Reas. 6. God will give to every man in the day of Judgement according to his works good or evil his rewards of grace or punishments of his justice To wit eternal life to them that persevere in obedience to the truth hoping for a reward vers 6 7. And besides the signs of wrath in this life eternal death also after this life as it is just for an angry God to inflict upon the adversaries of the truth and the servants of unrighteousness verse 8. Hee confirms this reason in that God will have no respect to any Nation or outward Priviledges in the inflicting of his punishments But the Jews which had the chiefest favours of God should bee first in their punishments and that hee would inflict upon the soul and body of the Heathens or Gentiles their deserved torments verse 9. And to the same manner in his rewards without difference of Nations hee will glorifie i. e. with all gifts that may externally accomplish a man such as Glory and Honour and inwardly which is signified by Peace and will heap upon the pious and honest Jew according to all the priviledges which hee hath vouchsafed to that Nation and will crown the pious and honest Gentile in his place with eternal life verse 10. from whence it follows that hee is deceived who indulges hopes of impunity because God hath hitherto spared him Vers. 11. For there is no respect of persons with God Hee confirms the former reason from the equity of God in that hee is no respecter of persons and hee meets with the second Objection propounded verse 2. against the severe judgement of God against sinners Some might object In the executing of Judgement respect is to bee had as well of the Heathen who lives out of the Church without the knowledge of the Law or the doctrine of God as also of the Jew which is a Disciple of God and an hearer of the Law God forbid that either of them should perish for both seems unjust although they are sinners Hee refutes this Objection and proves it just that every sinner should perish by five Reasons Reas. 1. Because there is no respect of persons with God that hee should exempt from condemnation those that persevere in sin whether Jews or Gentiles for any reason which appertains to the person not the cause And here it is to bee observed that God looks with an equal eye upon the Jew and Gentile out of Christ not in the degrees of punishment but in the guilt of eternal death which all sinners are worthy of although not in the like degree Vers. 12. For as many as have sinned without Law do by nature the things contained in the Law those having not the Law shall be judged by the Law Reas. 2. This confirms and unfolds the other because they that have sinned without the Law scil written Against the Law written upon their hearts by nature even by the same Law within them shall perish without the written Law by the sentence of Justice And whoever have sinned in the Law or in the knowledge of the Law written shall bee condemned even by the sentence of the written Law Vers. 13. For not the hearers of the Law are just before God but the doers of the Law shall be justified Reas. 3. Especially intended against the Jews who according to the rule of Righteousness cannot bee accounted for Righteous before God even they that are hearers of the Law unless they perform perfect obedidience to the Law which because neither Jew nor Gentile can do by consequence neither can they bee exempted from deserved condemnation but on the contrary especially the Jews which are hearers of the Law and do not keep it are most worthy of judgement Vers. 14. For when the Gentiles which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves 15. Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another Reas. 4. Especially intended against the Gentiles which though they have not the written Law yet they have a Law within

Conversion and Salvation of so many men should bee ascribed to the virtue of the Apostle that it should bee wholly ascribed unto God for by so much the more the Power of God is conspicuous in great works by how much the weakness of the Instrument more evidently appeareth Vers. 8. Wee are troubled ●n every side yet not distressed wee are perplexed but not in dispair 9. Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed Hee answers 3. That all his afflictions are moderated and hee himself is upheld by God in all things that hee is not destitute of the help of God doth not sink under his burthen that hee doth not forsake God nor dispair is not forsaken of God not left or lost Therefore it matters nothing how weak he is in himself Wee are afflicted hee saith yet not distressed i. e. on every side wee are troubled with adversity but wee are not brought into such streights as to bee over-whelmed but wee are preserved by the help of God in the midst of afflictions Wee are perplexed but not in despair i. e. wee doubt sometimes what may bee done in the dangers of this life but wee are not so destitute that wee are void of all counsel Wee are persecuted but not forsaken i. e. God permits us to bee vexed and evil intreated by the enemies of the Gospel but hee neither permits us to bee slain before the time by him determined neither doth hee withdraw his consolations from us Wee are cast down but not destroyed that is wee sometimes seem presently ready to perish but God helping us wee are kept from perishing Vers. 10. Alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Iesus that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our body Hee answers 4. That his afflictions make for the glory of Christ because the Image of Christ suffering and dying may bee seen in them and that the virtue and strength of Christ living may appear in supporting him under so many afflictions Therefore it matters not how weak hee may bee in himself Vers. 11. For wee which live are alway delivered unto death for Iesus sake that the Life also of Iesus might bee manifest in our mortal flesh Hee confirms this from hence that the Apostles who lived in the midst of troubles by the strength of Christs Spirit for the cause of Christ daily undergo danger that the quickning Virtue of Christ may more and more appear in sustaining their fleshly infirmities obnoxious to that miserable condition Vers. 12. So then death worketh in us but life in you Object 2. But not necessarily because thou art the Servant of Christ therefore thou shouldest bee also miserable and contemned For wee Corinthians are Christians and yet wee live more prosperously Hee answers four manner of wayes 1. By granting it to bee so yet by the Wisdome of God it comes to pass that in some stronger Christians as the Apostles the Image of Christ dying might rather appear at least to the world But in others as the weaker Corinthians the efficacy of Christs Life supporting them under extreme afflictions might bee more apparent to the world Vers. 13. Wee having the same spirit of Faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken wee also believe and therefore speak 14. Knowing that hee which raised up the Lord Iesus shall raise up us also by Iesus and present us with you Hee answers 2. Although the Apostles may bee afflicted more than the Corinthians yet there is the same Spirit of Faith both in them and in the Corinthians by which Faith believing with David Psalm 116. ver 10. The Apostle dare promise to himself together with the Corinthians a glorious Resurrection although now hee is more pressed under the Cross than they Vers. 15. For all things are for your sake that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God Hee answers 3. That hee was afflicted for their consolation and confirmation as also that from his afflictions and deliverances occasion of praying and suffering together with the Apostles might not onely bee given to the Corinthians But also occasion of thanksgiving with them for their eminent deliverances from trouble which God forthwith granted to him with the rest of the Apostles and was about to grant Vers. 16. For which cause wee faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day Hee answers 4. That hee was not tyred nor wearied by his afflictions whereof hee subjoyns three Reasons Reason 1. Because as much as was diminished of those goods that made for the maintaining the State of this present life so much was added to his holiness for the increasing of his spiritual life Vers. 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Reason 2. Because it did procure an unspeakable weight of glory to the promoting of which afflictions help as instruments and means both of mortification and glorification so that no afflictions are to bee accounted of yea truly the lightness of afflictions which is but for a moment clearly vanisheth and becomes as nothing in comparison with future glory Vers. 18. While wee look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal Reason 3. Why hee doth not wax faint is Because saith hee by Faith I look at things eternal and invisible by reason of which I despise all temporal and visible i. e. both Riches Honours and Profits c. I do not look at because those are onely durable for a time but I have my mind intent upon those good and eternal things which God hath promised Therefore I do not weigh the loss of temporal things by all which the Apostle confirmeth the Corinthians lest they should bee offended at his afflictions CHAP. V. HEE goes on to shew more fully his faithfulness in the Ministery by mentioning seven impellent causes whereby hee was moved to faithfulness in the discharge of his duty Vers. 1. For wee know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved wee have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens The first impellent cause to faithfulness in the Ministery is his certain confidence of a blessed immortality which after death remains for him and all the rest of the faithful Ministers of Christ of which felicity also the body shall bee partaker in the Resurrection I am perswaded saith hee that after the dissolution of this my frail body I shall continually injoy felicity of soul and the glorious immortality of a raised body why should not I therefore bee faithful so long as I dwell in this mortal body Vers. 2. For in this wee groan earnestly desiring to bee cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven

the office of an Apostle that I might wholly attend to the preaching of the Gospel separated from the world to this business who is it therefore that dares detract from my authority Vers. 13. Who was before a blasphemer and a persecuter and injurious but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbeleef Reas. 4. Notwithstanding the wickedness and the evil deserts of my former life God is not hindred from taking mee into his service who was in times past an enemy Who therefore will disparage my authority upon the wickedness of my former conversation Ignorantly Hee prevents an Objection Some man might say how could so open an enemy of Christ obtain pardon Hee answers that his sin was out of ignorance and so hee proves that it was not that unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost or a malicious insurrection against Christ which the devilish enemies of the Gospel knowingly practise in opposition to the Kingdome of Christ but sin committed out of ignorance while hee was yet an unbeleever Vers. 14. And the Grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with Faith and Love which is in Christ Iesus Reas. 5. God hath vouchsafed mee more than an ordinary measure of Faith and Love and hath abundantly shewed forth his Grace in the bestowing of his saving gifts Therefore there is no reason that any one should detract from my Apostolick authority from my former conversation Vers. 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Iesus came into the world to sav● sinners of whom I am chief Reas. 6. Christ through his eminent mercy towards mee hath effected this that being taught by experience I should bee drawn first as the chief of sinners in my o●n opinion to subscribe to that sentence of the Gospel concerning the person of Christ his office comming virtue merit and efficacy to save sinners so that I cannot but declare openly to the whole world the truth and benefit of that sentence for by experience I speak It is a faithful saying c. Therefoee no disparagement ought to bee offered to my authority who not onely beleeve my self what is committed to mee but I also preach what I have experience of Vers. 16. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy that in mee first Iesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a patern to them that should hereafter beleeve on him to life everlasting Reas. 7. The Lord hath set mee for an example of his long-suffering mercy goodness and admirable grace that sinners to the end of the world who shall hear of my wonderful conversion and the bounty of God towards mee may bee abundantly confirmed in the love of Christ and expect the like goodness towards themselves looking upon mee as a type and exemplar of unspeakable mercy Therefore am I most fit to bee made a Preacher of that grace and far bee it from any one to detract from my authority because of my former conversation while I was an unbeleever Vers. 17. Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the onely wise God bee honour and glory for ever and ever Amen Th● Apostle now affected with the greatness of the benefit not satisfying himself in the amplification of it with a pathetick thanksgiving he concludes his speech with an illustrious celebration of Christ concerning whom hee produces four Epithites which are so agreeable unto Christ that they may also bee ascribed to the Father and to the Holy Ghost 1 God or Christ as God is King of ages i. e. by an Hebraism the eternal King that hee may bee distinguished from mundane and mortal Kings 2 Immortal because God is without all alteration change and corruption and alwayes the same like himself 3 Invisible because hee cannot bee comprehended by the eyes or any senses because their faculties are corporeal and circumscribed with narrow limits 4 Hee is onely wise because hee alone knows all things not by objects nor by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ratiocination but in and by and of himself as one in whom are all things as in their first efficient and their ultimate end Hence the Apostle ascribes honour to God or a testification to his eminency Glory a celebrious fame with praise which is eternally due unto God adding Amen as a seal of his faith and willingness to glorifie God The Third Part of the Chapter Vers. 18. This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy according to the Prophecies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare The third part contains his Exhortation to Timothy that hee would behave himself couragiously in his Ministry viz. That hee would war a good warfare or that hee would prepare himself to fight against all enemies and all impediments and would use all diligence that the Church might receive no detriment by any one According The Arguments of his Exhortation are two Arg. 1. Because certain things are foretold Prophetically of pious men by a kinde of divine instinct which afford great hope of famous actions to bee done by thee as appears out of Act. 16.2 Therefore war a good warfare Vers. 19. Holding fast faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack Hee explains his Exhortation by shewing the manner of warring to wit that hee would defend faithfully and profess sound Doctrine and by an holy life according to the truth preached by him that hee would maintain the light and peace of a good conscience which would inwardly acquaint him with his duty towards God and men if hee would attend to it and would administer comfort to him if hee suffered for defending the truth Which being put away Arg. 2. Because ●●less thou behave thy self with a good courage and observest this law of war concerning the joyning of a good conscience with the profession of the faith there is danger upon the loss of a good conscience that thou make shipwrack of sound Doctrine or the profession of the faith as some have done Therefore war a good warfare In the mean time hee casts in no scruple here to Timothy about the uncertainty of perseverance but uses the best and most effectual argument to perswade him to it For it makes nothing in Hypothetical propositions that the parts of it taken by themselves and Categorically may bee false or impossible It is sufficient to the truth of the rule annexed that the connexion of the parts is certain Vers. 20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme The Apostle names two Apostates for example Hymeneus and Alexander whom hee had not long before delivered unto Satan i. e. excommunicated For they that are cast out from the face of God shining in the Church fall into the kingdome of Satan as to the condition of the outward man or the enjoyment of Church priviledges The end of this Excommunication hee shews to bee this That being led to repentance they might return