A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Sect. 1 Paul's Epistles excel both in matter and in method. Their matter is principally reconciliation through Christ. What subject so sweet, so profitable? Their method is by way of Doctrine and use: a method, which if it be despised, Paul's writings cannot be duly valued. In the fore-going verse, the last words of it, he positively asserted the great doctrine of Reconciliation through Christ, and doctrinally propounded it in these words; He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him: This was his Doctrine. In these two verses immediately following he applieth the doctrine, We then, as workers together with him, beseech you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain: for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, &c. In which two verses, there are contained these three parts.

Sect. 1 PAul's Epistles excell both in matter and in method. Their matter is principally reconciliation through Christ. What subject so sweet, so profitable? Their method is by way of Doctrine and use: a method, which if it be despised, Paul's writings cannot be duly valued. In the fore-going verse, the last words of it, he positively asserted the great doctrine of Reconciliation through Christ, and doctrinally propounded it in these words; He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him: This was his Doctrine. In these two verses immediately following he applieth the doctrine, We then, as workers together with him, beseech you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain: for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, &c. In which two verses, there are contained these three parts.

1. The first is an exhortation, that they would not receive the Grace of God in vain, or a caution against their receiving it in vain.