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…

Come we then to the Introduction it self, [Greek or Hebrew], I would not have you ignorant. This expression the Apostle commonly useth, when he is to ¹speak of something that is of a very weighty and momentous consideration. Rom. 11. 25. I would not have you ignorant of this mystery, that blindness in part is happened to Israel. So 1 Cor. 10. 1. 1 Cor. 12. 1. Concerning sacramental administrations, and the nature, with the use of spiritual gifts, Paul would not have them ignorant. Likewise 1 Thess. 4. 13. Paul speaking of that great and wonderful day of Christs coming to judgement, with the manner of this judicial process, saith, I would not have you ignorant. So that by this expression we may see, that the historical passage which Paul mentioneth of his Asi•n trouble, was of great use and well worthy to be known. The false Apostles they took occasion from Pauls sufferings to contemn him, and to bring him into disgrace, as if he had been a turbulent and seditious person; but Paul is so far from being ashamed of his troubles, or desirous to conceal them, that he rather desireth to publish them, that all who fear God may know of them, as also Gods gracious dealing with him in the issue. Observe,

Come we then to the Introduction it self, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I would not have you ignorant. This expression the Apostle commonly useth, when he is to ¹speak of something that is of a very weighty and momentous consideration. Rom. 11. 25. I would not have you ignorant of this mystery, that blindnesse in part is happened to Israel. So 1 Cor. 10. 1.