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A05995	A commentarie vpon the first chapter of the epistle of Saint Paul, written to the Ephesians Wherein, besides the text fruitfully explained: some principall controuersies about predestination are handled, and diuers arguments of Arminius are examined. By Mr. Paul Bayne, sometimes preacher of Gods word at Saint Andrevves in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1635; ESTC S113832	242,987	440

called the spirit of wisedome because the spirit from the Father and the Sonne doth worke it in vs It is not pregnancie of naturall wit can make vs wise to saluation nor ripenesse of yeares not many wise and grace wee see is not common to gray hayres It is a spirit and the inspiration of the almighty that giueth vnderstanding Iob 32.8 Neuerthelesse we doe attaine ripenesse of wisedome by meanes euen as we see in naturall men they come to a more full measure of ciuill wisedome not without meanes making way to it How doth a foolish youth grow a wise man First one day teacheth another hee as his dayes increase getteth knowledge of many things Secondly Hee tasteth as wee say many waters and findeth by experience the good in some things the euill in other-some Thirdly he groweth by some meanes weaned from his youthfull lusts which like a back-bias did draw after themselues the vnderstanding thus when his knowledge is increased when he hath gathered experience and sowed his wilde oates as we say he groweth a wise staide person In the same manner when God hath brought vs on to know to proue things by our owne experience and to be weaned from the lusts of sinne which are the true folly bound in our hearts then he causeth wisedome in farre greater measure to enter into vs. We see then to whom we must giue all thankes for what wisedome soeuer we haue receiued and to whom we must flye for the increasing of it euen to God who giueth it plentifully and vpbraideth vs not See what is written verse 8. verse 18 Doct. 1 Now followeth the manner or way in which he would haue them bestowed through the knowledge or acknowledging of Christ Obserue to grow vp in the acknowledging of Christ is the way to attaine the more full measure of the spirit in euery kinde 2 Pet. 1. Euery thing is said to be giuen vs which respecteth life or godlinesse through the knowledge or acknowledging of Christ When wee first come to know him as the truth is in him we partake according to our measure in his spirit when we grow to behold him as in a mirrour or glasse more clearly we are turned into the same glorious Image by the spirit of the Lord more and more when we shall see him and know him euidently and fully we shall be as he is 1 Iohn 3. The more we know him the more fully he dwelleth in vs the more we enioy the influence of his spirit euen as this bodily Sunne the neerer it approacheth to vs the more wee haue the light and heate of it Vse Wherefore let vs labour to grow vp in the knowledge and affectionate acknowledging of Christ our Sauiour It is read of those Indian Gymnosophists that they would lye all the day gazing vpon the beauty of this bodily sunne but how should wee delight with the eye of the minde to contemplate on this Sunne of righteousnesse which while we view it will transforme vs into the same glorious Image which himselfe enioyeth VERSE 18 Doct. 1 Now followeth the end but before hee setteth it downe hee doth more clearely and fully lay downe the thing which he intreated for them for these words are gouerned of the verbe giuen in the former verse are Ergo put in the same case with the former viz. the spirit of wisdome reuelation and that without any particle which should couple them because they are brought in by way of explanation in which case the copulatiue is often omitted as verse 7. 1 Pet. 1. verse 3.4 For to haue eyes of vnderstanding enlightned differeth not from that former to haue giuen the spirit of wisedome and reuelation but that it doth more roundly and fully note the same benefit and that without any insinuation of the cause viz. that spirit from which it commeth this then thus commeth When I aske for you a spirit of wisedome and reuelation my meaning is to speake more roundly and nakedly I aske that he would giue you eyes of vnderstanding enlightned The end followeth First propounded then more clearely expounded Propounded in those words That you may know the hope of his calling For clearing whereof you must know that hope is put for things hoped for not for the grace of hope which springeth from faith Thus we say he is a man of faire hopes we meane goodly Lands which in likelihood will befall him Now this hope is described from an antecedent benefit the ground of it viz. Gods calling them by the Gospell and whereas there is an outward significatiue effectuall calling wherewith many are called who are not separated from others this is meant of that inward operatiue and effectuall calling which the Scripture doth describe with additions viz. that it is a calling according to purpose a high and heauenly calling a holy calling The end of the verse expoundeth this hope by this that it is an inheritance described from the glory yea the riches or abundance of glory adioyned vnto it and from the persons who are the subiect of it the Saints The summe of the verse When I aske for you a spirit of wisedome and reuelation my meaning is I aske at God that he would giue you the eyes of your vnderstanding inlightned that ye may be able to know those good things which you haue in hope hauing beene called of God to the obtaining of them through the ministery of the Gospell euen to know what is the abundant glory of that his inheritance which hee will of grace distribute amongst the Saints for the particle we reade in the Saints doth signifie in or amongst and is so reade Acts 26.18 Doct. 1 Obserue then first that those whose spirituall sight is restored haue neede still to depend on God that their eyes may be more and more inlightned by him These were now light in the Lord had their eyes opened yet thus he prayeth for them As it is with bodily sicknesses when wee recouer out of them health commeth not all at once but by ounces as we say so in spirituall When God doth now raise vs vp from our death we neither are fully sanctified nor yet fully inlightned It is with vs as with the blinde man Marke 8.24 we see but confusedly and indistinctly Now this inlightning comprehendeth these foure things which we haue still neede to seeke to God for First the remouall of those things which put impediment to our sight a seeing eye may haue mists dazeling it humours falling and distilling into it yea some filme or skinne growing ouer it So an eye of the soule which now seeth may haue mists of ignorance clouds of lusts veyles of hardnesse of heart all hindring this faculty of seeing in the action of it We must therefore looke to God for the eye salue and the helpe of his hand in these regards Secondly We haue neede that the inward light of knowledge be augmented in vs. The inward light of the bodily eye is not so great in