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Q. What is meant by the Word of God abiding in them?

1 He means not part of the Word, but the whole Word abides in them, both Promises, Commands, and Threatenings; Commands to bind them, Threatening to awe them, Promises to comfort them; good examples to encourage them, bad examples to discourage them; therefore for men to be carvers and choosers of the Word, is not to have the Word abiding in them. Herod would have some of Johns words abide in him, hut not all, but this is the commendation of good young men, that not only every kind, but every parcel of the Word abides in them.

1 He means not part of the Word, but the whole Word abides in them, both Promises, Commands, and Threatnings; Commands to bind them, Threatning to awe them, Promises to comfort them; good examples to encourage them, bad examples to discourage them; therefore for men to be carvers and choosers of the Word, is not to have the Word abiding in them. Herod would have some of Johns words abide in him, hut not all, but this is the commendation of good young men, that not only every kind, but every parcel of the Word abides in them.

2 When he saith, the Word of God, it implies, that they receive it as the Word of God, and not as the word of man, 1 Thes. 2.13. and a man then receives the Word, as the Word of God, when he looks at the Commandments, as Gods Commandments, and so the Promises and Threatenings as Gods, he looks at them as of highest authority, so as no word of man shall stand against it, all falls to the ground before it; it sways all.

2 When he saith, the Word of God, it implyes, that they receive it as the Word of God, and not as the word of man,