The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

What are the Characters of a Souls sincere Love to Christ? and how may that love to him be kindled and inflamed?

EPHESIANS 6.24. Grace be with all Them, that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

EPHESIANS 6.24. Grace bee with all Them, that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

These words may well be treated on without much Preface,¹ there being nothing in them, which speaks any dependence upon, or connection with any thing that went before. Some form of Benediction we find used by this Great Apostle, at the conclusion of every Epistle; and accordingly having driven his excellent design in this to the Church of Ephesus, to a full period or issue; he first makes an affectionate address to God, and to the Mediator in their behalf, v. 23. Grace be to the Brethren, and love with Faith from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and then leaves his Apostolical Benediction upon them, v. 24. Grace be with all them, that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity: Or, The blessing of the Eternal God be upon all the sincere-hearted Christians amongst you, for so I look upon the latter words of the verse, as a Periphrasis of all real Christians; Love to Christ being as essential to the Christian, as the Rational Soul is to the man. The only difficulty in the words, that will require our stay, is to inquire, what is meant by [[Greek or Hebrew]] in Sincerity, some refer it to the [[Greek or Hebrew]] Grace mentioned at the beginning of the verse, as if it had been read [[Greek or Hebrew]] unto Incorruption, or to bring them to eternal life, or until they come to a state of Immortality. So many of the Ancients, and of the Modern Interpreters, Beza, Tremellus, and others.