An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

WE are now come to the third particular in this Text, which is the amplification of the end specified of the Apostles sufferings, especially the latter, viz. Salvation, which Salvation is effectual. Wherein we may take notice,

1. What is attributed to Salvation, [Greek or Hebrew]. 2. The manner how, [Greek or Hebrew], in enduring; with the object of the same sufferings, We also suffer.

1. What is attributed to Salvation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 2. The manner how, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in enduring; with the object of the same sufferings, We also suffer.

I shall at this time only consider the Attribute, or what is predicated of our ⟨p. 228⟩Salvation, it is effectual. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] is contested about. Some, especially Estius is very industrious to prove, that it should be rendered passively. Thus, which Salvation is wrought. And it is true indeed among profane Authors, the word is used passively; but in the New Testament in some places, it must needs be rendered actively. For whereas the word is used four times in the New Testament, in all which places we translate it actively; yet he contends for the passive sense, as Gal. 5. 6. Faith which worketh by love, he will have it, which is wrought by love: Whereas Vasquez granteth it may be rendered actively. So Jam. 15. 16. the [Greek or Hebrew], we translate, The effectual prayer, he would have the prayer wherein the Spirit of God doth so powerfully move us, that we are acted rather than act. Even as afterwards in the Church, those who were possessed by the Devil, were called [Greek or Hebrew]. But though in this place he may argue something probably, yet in the two other places,