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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

confirmation in goodnesse and that they might againe be knit together with the Elect under one and the same head Christ Jesus Ephes. 1.10 Vers. 23. Grounded The word in the originall signifies except you be so built as a house is built upon a sure foundation as a tree that is soundly rooted and setled A metaphore from the sitting of the body which is then most firme The hope of the Gospell viz. Those sweet promises of life which are the very matter of the Gospell And which was Preached to every creature which is under heaven That is so and in such sort as every man living might have heard and knowne had not the fault been in their own carelesnesse Vers. 24. Fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh He meaneth not the passion of Christ but the sufferings of the body of Christ that is the Church whereof Christ is the head For his bodies sake which is the Church Because they confirme the faith of the Church Vers. 26. The mystery which hath been hid from ages That is of the Gospell But now is made manifest to his Saints The Gospell was revealed to all the world they might have a literall knowledge of it but the Saints onely a spirituall knowledge The common truths which others see with a rationall eye they see with a siduciall eye CHAPT II. Vers. 5. BEholding your order That is your outward beauty And the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the firmament of your faith so the vulgar renders it it is as firme as the firmament it selfe See 1 Pet. 5.9 Vers. 7. Rooted and built up in him He alludeth to a tree well rooted in the ground and to an house well set upon a good foundation Calvin and others He signifies that Christ is the root in which he would have them firmely rooted and the foundation upon which he would have them built Vers. 8. Spoile you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is make a prey of you The Speech is taken from theeves who come secretly to carry away a sheep out of the fold to whom the Apostle compareth vaine teachers Doctor Taylor Through Philosophy The Apostle speakes not absolutely of Philosophy but of vaine deceiving by Philosophy as the Text implies Omnes adulterinae doctrinae quae nascuntur ex humano capite qualemcunque habeant rationis colorem Calvinus Some say vaine deceit is here added interpretatively Vers. 10. And ye are compleat in him which is the head of all principality and power As though he had said because in himselfe he hath the wel-head of glory and Majesty the which becommeth ours in that he is also the head of his Church Vers. 11. In whom That is Christ of whom vers 8 9 10. Yee That is all you Colossians and others that have truly beleeved in Christ. Are circumcised with the circumcision That is made partakers of the spirituall good whereof circumcision was anciently to the Jewes a signe and seale Made without bands That is not performed by any externall act of any man upon the body but spiritually upon the soule by a spirituall and inward act of Gods Spirit In putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh That is which inward circumcision consists in this that a man is inabled to cast aside mortifie and overcome those manifold corruptions and disorders of the soule which come unto us by our fleshly generation and doe shew themselves in our flesh our outward man By the circumcision of Christ By merit and vertue of all those things which Christ hath done and suffered in his humane nature among which this of his circumcision was one Vers. 13. Having forgiven you all trespasses The word imports that he hath freely forgiven us all our sinnes Rom. 3.4 The word rendred trespasses usually is understood of actuall sinnes either it is a Synecdoche and so one sort of sinnes is named instead of all or else he speakes according to the feeling of many of the godly who even after forgivenesse are troubled with a wicked pronenesse to daily sinnes Vers. 14. Blotting out the hand writing of Ordinances Beza and Calvin understand it of the ceremoniall Law it is meant not onely of that but of the morall Law as a Covenant of workes say Chrysostome Oecumenius Ierome this is spoken saith Zanchie to comfort the Colossians who were never under the ceremoniall Law Vers. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come Ceremonies are called shadowes because that as the shadow carries though a dark yet some resemblance of the body whose shadow it is so Ceremonies of Christ. Vers. 18. Beguile you of your reward It referres to prizes in the Olympick games as that in 8. v. to spoiles in warre He meanes their salvation In a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels The worshipping of Angels which Paul condemnes arose from a pretence of humility For such making a shew of humility that they could not goe directly to God neither were they worthy to goe by Christ therefore they taught that they must use the mediation of Angels so Chrysostome Theodoret Theophylact and the Greeke Scholiast in loc Vers. 21. Touch not A woman 1 Cor. 7.1 Taste not Meat handle not Money meddle not with secular contracts Doctor Sclater Some observe that the rest of the words without copulatives notes their eagernesse in pressing these things and perswading men to the care of them Vers. 22. Which all are to perish with the using The words signifie are to corruption in the use That is they come to no such use or end as is aimed at in them those were such observances as Zanchie sheweth as men devised or used with an estimation of worshipping God in them ex se as of themselves CHAP. III. Vers. 1 SEeke those things which are above It implies 1. An act of the understanding minde and contemplate on the things that are above 2. Of the will long for favour and affect them Set your affections on things which are above and not on things which are on earth He repeates what he had said in the former verse to shew our dulnesse of capacity in conceiving and backwardnesse in practise and the necessity and excellency of the duty Vers. 3. Your life is hid with Christ in God A happy and glorious life hid chiefely in respect of security and also in respect of obscurity that your selves sometimes can not find it not onely hid from the eyes of the world but also from our owne eyes in respect of the fulnesse and perfection of it Vers. 5. Mortifie or put to death He alludeth unto the ancient sacrifices whereof so many as consisted of things having life were appointed to be slaine by the Priest afore they were offered upon the Altar as a type of our killing the old man before we can become an acceptable sacrifie unto God Your Members which are

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