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A50050	Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing L986; ESTC R20337	837,685	476

of earnest desire See 2. Tit. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 votis accelerantes Steph. God hath appointed when the day of judgement shall bee but we may be said to hast unto it 1. In our desires 2. In our preparation Vers. 13. Wherein dwelleth righteousnesse That is either perfect righteousnesse or men perfectly righteous Estius Vers. 16. In which are some things hard to be understood There are many things in the Scriptures hard to be understood yet whatsoever is necessary to be knowne is plainly set forth and easily to be understood of them that will reade diligently marke attentively pray heartily and judge humbly The Apostle would not by this hee saith here discourage or disswade the people from reading and studying the Scriptures For in the first Chapter he commended the faithfull for their diligent attention unto the Scriptures of the Old Testament which are more obscure in the chiefe mysteries of Salvation than these of the New Wrest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A metaphor from torments lay them on the racke to make them speake otherwise than they meant See Gerhard Yet Paul exhorts Timothy 1 Tim 4. and others to reade the Scriptures even in the congregation 1 Thes. 5.27 Col. 4.16 ANNOTATIONS Vpon the first Epistle generall of JOHN CHAP. I. THIS Epistle is altogether worthy of the Spirit of that Disciple which was loved by Christ. He is much before others in urging brotherly love Calvin He exhorteth the faithfull First against Heretickes that they would preserve the true knowledge of Christ our Mediatour God and man the faith and the whole doctrine which they had learned of the Apostles and take heed of the doctrines of Heretickes Secondly against licentious men that they would study to avoid sinne to keep the Law of God and especially to performe the duties of brotherly love Zanchie Vers. 1. Which we have heard He alludes both to the Sermons which hee and the other Apostles heard with their owne eares from the mouth of Christ and also to the testimony which the Father gave twice from heaven to Christ the Apostles hearing saying this is my beloved Son Zanchius which we have seen with our eyes He alludes both to the Miracles wrought by Christ and to the glory which in the holy mountaine as Peter cals it 2 Pet. 1. Christ gave to Iohn Iames and Peter to see and also to Christs resurrection and visible ascension into the Heavens Which we have looked upon This is not a tautologie but this word signifies something more than the former thoroughly to behold And our hands have handled He alludes to the familiar conversation which the Apostles had with Christ for about three yeares and also to that touching when after the resurrection Christ offered himselfe to the Apostles that beleeved not in him to touch him Of the word of life Christ is life essentialiter causaliter Hee is a living word that is life it selfe and a quickning word bringing life and salvation to men Vers. 4. That your joy may be full Our fellowship with God and Christ brings full joy 1. Because he is a full good 2. A perpetuall good Psal. 16. vlt. 3. This union intitleth us alwayes to this good Vers. 5. God is light and in him is no darknesse at all There are many properties of light for which God is often in scripture compared to it 1. nothing is purer than light so God is most pure 2. All things are conspicuous to the light so to God 3. Without light nothing can be seen so without the beames of divine wisedome no heavenly things can be known of us 4. There is nothing more pleasant than the light so nothing more happy than God The maine property of light is to expell darknesse where it is and inlighten the place so God expels the darknesse of ignorance and infidelity and inlightens men with the true knowledge of himselfe Zanchius Vers. 7. Wee have fellowship one with another God with us and we with him And the bloud of Jesus Christ his Sonne cleanseth us from all sin Not hath cleansed or will cleanse but cleanseth viz. daily neither doth hee say simply from sin but from all sin Estius thinkes it is not improbable that Iohn saith this to meete with those heretickes the Ebionites who when they walked in darknesse did beleeve they should be cleansed from their sins by their frequent washings though they acknowledged not the mysterie of our redemption by Christ. Vers. 9. If we confesse our sinnes That is truely seriously and from our heart repent before God Hee is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse As if he should say God of his infinite mercy hath promised to all true penitents and confessours that he will forgive and never remember their sins any more he must stand to his promises or else he should be unfaithfull and he is just hee doth not say he is mercifull but just to forgive the sinnes of true beleevers because they are satisfied for and Gods justice will not let him demand the same debt twice of the Surety and of the debter CHAP. II. Vers. 1. MY little children Hee shewes that he delivered to us this doctrine concerning the study of avoyding sin and observing the law of God out of a Fatherly affection These things I write unto you that yee sinne not Hee teacheth that the study of holinesse and innocencie is the first study which a Christian should perpectually labour in If any man sinne we have an Advo●ate with the Father Advo●ate The Greek word is translated Comforter Iohn 14.16 and 15.26 The word Advocate is a law-terme quicunque adest alteri in causa officij gratia saith the Civill Law Vers. 2. Hee is the propitiation for our sinnes That is the propitiator by a metalepsis See Vorstius But also for the sinnes of the whole world That is of all the faithfull mundus ex mundo for he that is faithfull speakes to the faithfull saith Ludovicus de Dieu See Calvin and Beza Vers. 3. And hereby we doe know that we know him That is we beleeve in him and apply him with all his benefits unto our soules To know that we know is to be assured that we know If wee keep his Commandements The conscionable endeavour to frame our lives according to Gods will revealed in his word is a most certaine marke that wee are true beleevers and so the true Children of God and heires of glory They who have an upright desire an unfeigned purpose a sincere indeavour to walke in the obedience of all Gods Commandements are said to keepe them Vers. 4. He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyer Such a one is called a lyer in a double respect both in that he sayes he hath that knowledge he hath not it not being true and because also he denies that indeed which hee affirmes in

craft and the attribute roaring addeth terrour thereunto lastly his walking up and downe shewes his sedulity Vers. 10. But the God of all grace Hee is so called because hee is the giver of all kinds and of all degrees of grace wherefore it is added he calls and perfects Dr Sclater Settle you As a foundation is setled to be unmoveable See Heb. 1.10 ANNOTATIONS Upon the second Epistle of PETER CHAP. I. IT is written to the same that the former Epistle was written to ch 3. v. 1. the principall argument of it is to take heed of false Prophets and teachers Vers. 1. Have obtained Obtained by lot so the Greeke sortiti sunt So Luke 1.9 Acts 1.17 Like precious faith See Eph. 4.5 Not that it is equall in all but because all possesse the same Christ with his righteousnesse and the same salvation by faith Through the righteousness of God and our saviour Jesus Christ The righteousnesse of Christ is called Gods righteousnesse here 2 Cor. 5.21 Rom. 1.17 and 3.21 and 10.3 Not because it is the righteousnesse of the God-head but of him that is God This is an excellent testimony to prove the deity of our Saviour like to that of Titus 2.13 For it is not said of God and of our Saviour as noting two persons but of God and our Saviour as betokening one Vers. 3. Called us to glory and vertue Through the Temple of vertue we must passe on to glory Vers. 4. Partakers of the divine nature Not of the substance of the God-head as the Familists say therefore they use those phrases Godded and Christed when they are converted but the words following shew the meaning having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust they love and hate what they did not afore the whole soule in the bent of it is carried to new objects To bee made partaker of the divine nature notes two things 1. A fellowship with God in his holinesse the purity which is eminenter and infinitely in Gods most holy nature is formaliter or secundum modum creaturae fashioned in us 2. A fellowship with God in his blessednesse viz. in the beatificall vision and brightnesse of glory Vers. 5. And besides this giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge That is see that every grace act in its season and order he speaks not of the habits of Grace all graces are wrought together but of the Acts. Adde The Greek word hath a greater emphasis taken from dancing round as in dancing they took hands so we must joyne hand to hand in these measures or graces Lead up the dance of the graces as in the galliard every one takes his turne in every season bring forth every grace Faith Is first mentioned because it gives us the first hope and comfortable accesse to God it is the Mother grace By faith he meanes true religion and that gift of God whereby we put our trust and confidence in God by vertu● an honest and upright life shining in the vertues and workes of the morall law By knowledge he meanes a gift of God whereby a man may judge how to carry himselfe uprightly or prudence a more full understanding of heavenly mysteries and applying them to practice Vers. 6. Temperance By it is understood a gift of God whereby we keepe moderation of our naturall appetites especially about meate drinke and attire by patience a vertue whereby we moderate our sorrow in induring affliction Godlinesse Is a vertue whereby we worship God in the duties of the first Table Vers. 7. Brotherly kindesse Is a vertue whereby we love the Church of God and the members thereof Charity Or love that vertue whereby wee are well affected to all men even to our enemies Vers. 9. And cannot see farre off The Greek word signifieth him that naturally cannot see except hee holdeth neere his eyes so Peter calleth such as cannot see heavenly things which are farre off poare-blind or sand-blind Beza renders it nihil procul cernens Vers. 10. Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye doe these things yee shall never fall Which words containe 1. An exhortation to make our election sure there is a double certainty 1. Objecti so it is sure with God for with him both it and all things are unchangeable 2. Subjecti sure to our selves in our own hearts and consciences Secondly the meanes whereby to come to this assurance that is by doing the things before named in the 5.6 and 7. verses to practise the vertues of the morall Law there set downe to labour to grow in grace and use diligence First calling from it thou maist easily ascend to assurance of election For if ye doe these things ye shall never fall That is into scandalous sinnes or fall utterly yee shall not fall for ever Greek Vers. 12. But so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ The Kingdome here mentioned is the kingdome of glory 1. Because it is promised as a reward to one that hath made sure his calling 2. Because it is stiled an everlasting kingdome It is called the kingdome of Christ because it is given to Christ as a reward of his sufferings and because the government of it is committed to him Heb. 2.5 he hath entred into it Luk. 14.19 He is the Ruler in this kingdom Eph. 1.21 As conversion gives one an entrance into the kingdome of grace so assurance gives one an entrance into the kingdome of glory 1. Because it is not barely faith but light with it 2. An earnest 3. Affections are hereby laid up suitable to a glorious estate rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory It is an everlasting kingdome because the union between the soule and him is everlasting Christ is there medium visionis fruitionis as here he is medium reconciliationis communionis Vers. 14. That shortly I must put off this my tabernacle In Greek it is that the laying aside of this my tabernacle is quick Vers. 15. I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things alwaies in remembrance These words according to the Rhemists Translation their Jesuites Salmeron Suarez and Bellarmine do judge excellent for their purpose to prove that Peter after his departure would remember them And this must needs be say they by praying for them Not to stand upon their bad Latine and worse English Translation the true construction of the words is that Peter promiseth whilest he is in the way that is in this life that they should have his Books viz. his Epistles which after his departure might put them in mind of such things Vers. 16. Vnto the power and comming That is the powerfull comming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So Estius and others Vers. 19. We have a more sure