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…

Certainly Chrysostom aggravateth the passive signification; he did not say (saith he) [Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew]; yet the active sense, if it be retained, cometh to the same purpose with the passive. For the Apostle contends, that by afflictions for Christs sake, our salvation is advanced: Salvation puts forth it self, and thereby is more exalted by these sufferings, which certainly must be of unspeakable comfort, to think that by these I am the more prepared for Heaven, and my glory will the more increase. Only you must remember always, that these sufferings have no causality or meritoriousness in them; it is only the gift and grace of God, hereby to increase our blessedness; for after all our sufferings, we are unprofitable servants, and might be thrown into hell. Observe,

Certainly Chrysostome aggravateth the passive signification; he did not say (saith he) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; yet the active sense, if it be retained, cometh to the same purpose with the passive. For the Apostle contends, that by afflictions for Christs sake, our salvation is advanced: Salvation puts forth it self, and thereby is more exalted by these sufferings, which certainly must be of unspeakable comfort, to think that by these I am the more prepared for Heaven, and my glory will the more increase. Only you must remember alwayes, that these sufferings have no causality or meritoriousnesse in them; it is onely the gift and grace of God, hereby to increase our blessednesse; for after all our sufferings, we are unprofitable servants, and might be thrown into hell. Observe,

That the salvation of believers is promoted and advanced by their sufferings ¹for Christ.

1. 1The salvation of believers is promoted by their sufferings for Christ.