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tion of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied, 1 Pet. i. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 2 Pet. i. 2. Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love, 2 John 3. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied, Jude 2. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, Rev. i.4, 5.

e For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom. xiv. 17. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost, XV. 13. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen, 33. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee, Psal. cxxii. 6. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again, Luke x. 5, 6. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thess. v. 23. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all, 2 Thess. iii. 16. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Heb. xiii. 20. See also on chap. v. ver. 1. clause 2.

fSee on Matt. v. ver. 16. clause 3. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,

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Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep, Acts vii. 59, 60. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, 1 Cor. xvi. 23. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong, 2 Cor. xii. 8-10. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen, xiii. 14. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen, Gal. vi. 18. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen, Eph. vi. 23, 24. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, Phil. iv. 13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, 23. Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 1 Thess. iii. 11-13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen, v. 28. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Com fort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all, iii. 16. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, 18. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. 2 Tim. iv. 22. The grace of our Lord

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Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen, Philem. 25. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, Rev. xxii. 21.

VER. 8.

Πρῶτον μὲν εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Θεῷ μου διά Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ὑπὲρ πάντων ὑμῶν, ὅτι ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν καταγγέλλεται ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ.

First, I thank my God bthrough Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. ..a But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, Rom. vi. 17. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. i. 4. Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, Eph. i, 16. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now, Phil. i. 3-5. We give thanks unto God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, Col. i. 3, 4. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father, 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God, iii. 9. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth, 2 Thess. i. 3. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance | of thee in my prayers night and day; Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother

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c For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil, Rom. xvi. 19. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 1 Thess. i. 8, 9.

d And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come, Matt. xxiv. 14. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed, Luke ii. 1. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar, Acts xi. 28.

VER. 9.

Μάρτυς γάρ μου ἐστὶν ὁ Θεὸς, ᾧ λατρεύω ἐν τῷ πνεύματί μου, ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως μνείαν ὑμῶν ποιοῦμαι·

For a God is my witness, bwhom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing e I make mention of you always in my prayers;

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ness in the Holy Ghost, Rom. ix. 1. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high, Job xvi. 19. Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth, 2 Cor. i. 23. As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth, xi. 10, 11. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not, 31. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not, Gal. i. 20. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 8. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe, 1 Thess. ii. 5-10. Whereunto I am or dained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity, 1 Tim. ii. 7.

b But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth, John iv. 23, 24. After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome, Acts xix. 21. For there stood by me this night the angel of

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God, whose I am, and whom I serve, xxvii. 23. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also, 1 Cor. xiv. 14, 15. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the Gospel, Phil. ii. 22. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, iii. 3. Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily, Col. i. 28, 29. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, 2 Tim. i. 3. c See on ver. 1. clause 5.

d Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way, 1 Sam. xii. 23. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint, Luke xviii. 1. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him, Acts xii. 5. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints, Eph. vi. 18. Pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. v. 17. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, 2 Tim. i. 3.

e Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, Phil. i. 4. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence, till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ,

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Πάντοτε ἐπὶ τῶν προσευχῶν μου δεόμενος, εἴ πως ἤδη ποτὲ εὐοδωθήσομαι ἐν τῷ θελήματι τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

a Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

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a For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company, Rom. xv. 22-24. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judæa; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; That may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed, 30-32. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, Phil. iv. 6. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us, 1 Thess. ii. 18. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you, iii. 10, 11. But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you, Philem. 22. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner, Heb. xiii. 19.

b After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome, Acts xix. 21.

See on Acts xviii. ver. 21.

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Ἐπιποθῶ γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὑμᾶς, ἵνα τι μεταδώ χάρισμα ὑμῖν πνευματικὸν, εἰς τὸ στηριχ θῆναι ὑμᾶς·

For a I long to see you, bthat I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, & to the end ye may be established;

a And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you, 2 Cor. ix. 14. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 8. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick, ii. 26. Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved, iv. 1.

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b And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ, Rom. xv. 29. Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. when Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost, Acts viii. 15-19. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied, xix. 6. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every

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man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will, 1 Cor. xii. 1-11. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another Gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him, 2 Cor. xi. 4. This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal. iii. 2-5. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, Eph. iv. 8-12.

Now to him who is of power to stablish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, Rom. xvi. 25. And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Je rusalem; Believe in the LORD your VOL. II.

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God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper, 2 Chron. xx. 20. And so were the Churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily, Acts xvi. 5. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, 2 Cor. i. 21. And sent Timotheus our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, 1 Thess. iii. 2. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 13. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. ii. 17. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil, iii. 3. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein, Heb. xiii. 9. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you, 10. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand, 12. Wherefore I will not not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth, 2 Pet. i. 12. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 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, iii. 17, 18.

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Τοῦτο δέ ἐστι, συμπαρακληθῆναι ἐν ὑμῖν διὰ τῆς ἐν ἀλλήλοις πίστεως, ὑμῶν τε καὶ ἐμοῦ.

That is, a that I may be comforted together with you bby the mutual faith both of you and me.

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