29 For the gifts and calling of God are 'without repentance.

30 For as ye in times past have not believed 20 God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:21

31 Even so have these also now not believed,22 that through your mercy 23 they also may obtain

mercy.

32 For God hath concluded them all 24 in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearch

20 obeyed. A. V. 21 disobedience. We. 22 obeyed. A. V. 23 the mercy bestowed on you. Wh. 24 shut them all up together. A. V. 25 disobe

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cause he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. do. ix. 5: Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. do. x. 15: Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

f NUMB. Xxiii. 19. See on ROM. iii. 3.

8 EPH. ii. 2: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. CoL. iii. 7: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

h GAL. iii. 22. See on Roм. iii. 23.

i Ps. cvii. 8, &c: Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

* JOB, V. 9: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number. do. ix. 10: Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. do. xi. 7: Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Ps. xxxvi. 6: Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments

able are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

34 For who hath 'known the mind of the Lord? orm who hath been his counsellor?

35 Or who hath first "given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: P to whom 26be glory for ever. Amen.

26 to him. A. V.

are a great deep. do. xcii. 5: O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 2 ESDR. v. 40: Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people. ECCLUS. Xviii. 4: To whom hath he given power to declare his works? and who shall find out his noble acts?

1 JOB, XV. 8: Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? ISA. xl. 13: Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? JER. Xxiii. 18: Who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? WISD. ix. 13: What man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is? ECCLUS. xlii. 21: Unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor. 1 Cor. ii. 16: Who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

m JOB, Xxxvi. 22: Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

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JOB, XXXV. 7: If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? do. xli. 11: Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

See on JOHN, i. 3.

Amen.

P GAL. i. 5: To whom be glory for ever and ever. 1 TIM. i. 17: Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 2 TIM. iv. 18: And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. HEB. xiii. 21: Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

CHAP. XII.

1 God's mercies must move us to please God: 3 no man must think too well of himself, 6 but attend, every one, on that calling wherein he is placed: 9 love, and many other duties, are required of us : 19 revenge is specially forbidden.

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I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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2 And be not conformed to this world: but

1 PET. v. 11: To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 2 PET. iii. 18: But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. JUDE, 25: To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. REV. i. 6: And hath made us kings and Priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

CHAP. XII.

a2 COR. X. 1: Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

1 PET. ii. 5: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

c Ps. 1. 13, 14: Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high. Rom. vi. 13, 16, 19: Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 1 COR. vi. 13, 20: Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

HEB. X. 20: By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. EXOD. Xxiii. 2: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do

evil.

WISD. ii. 12: Let us lie in wait for the righteous:

that

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be ye 'transformed by the renewing of your mind, I ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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I discern and approve. Whit. Rh. 2 Gr. to sobriety. A. V. because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings; he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education. 1 PET. i. 14: As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. 1 JOHN, ii. 15: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

EPH. i. 18: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. do. iv. 22-24: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. COL. i. 21, 22: You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. do. iii. 10: And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

8 EPH. v. 10, 17. See on 1 THES. iv. 3.

h See on Roм. i. 5.

¡Ver. 16. PRO. iii. 7: Be not wise in thine own eyes. do. xxv. 27: For men to search their own glory is not glory. do. xxvi. 12, 16: Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ECCLES. vii. 16: Neither make thyself overwise. ISA. v. 21: Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Rom. xi. 20, 25.

* MAT. XXV. 15: Unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability. 1 COR. xii. 7, 11: The manifestation of the Spirit is

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given to every man to profit withal. All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. EPH. iv. 7: Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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1 COR. xii. 12, 13: As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body. EPH. iv. 4, 16: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of calling. From whom [Christ] the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. m 1 COR. vi. 15: Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? do. x. 17: We being many are one bread, and one body. do. xi. 3: The head of every man is Christ. do. xii. 20, 27: But now are they many members, yet but one body. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. EPH. i. 22, 23: And gave him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is his body. do. ii. 16, 21: That he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross. In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. do. iv. 12, 15, 16, 25: For the edifying of the body of Christ. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom, &c. as under ver. 4. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. do. v. 23, 30: Christ is the head of the Church. We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. CoL. i. 18, 24: He is the head of the body, the Church.-Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the Church.

• 1 Cor. xii. 4, 7: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he