mitchell-P044_A-12_2_3

VERSO

V.2.

Grace; Joy, gladness, all
needful favours.
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Peace. God. Conscience; Men.
God ― Such as Father & Son gives
Ps. 4:6.
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V.3.
Blessed. What?
Aften called;
Not make, But dec[l]re ―
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He can bless & has blessed.
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Spiritual blessings ―
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Heavenly places;
In the Church.
Heaven itself. John 14:2.
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What reason have we to
join and bless the Lord?
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V.4. He recounts,
Election. He saw & know
who among the Jews when they had the gos-
pel sent to them xc.
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V.5.
He stablished it, that such
as before mentioned, should
be esteemed children & heirs
of God.
John 1:11,12. He came unto ―
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Good pleasures. God did
not have any creature
to sit in council with him.
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V.6.
Beloved is Jesus Christ.
Accepted; Reconciled.
He hath made us well we
may say so. His grace, his
Soul, Spirit, word xc
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V.7.
In whom. The Beloved.
Redemption; Deliverance
from captivety & slavery ―
Men in bondage to sin,
Satan, law ―

RECTO

Jesus Christ laid down
his life; shed his blood.
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Through him forgiveness.

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V.8.
In that rich grace xc.
Wisdom & prudence -
good & glorious end; his
glory in the salvation
of souls.
Best way to accomplish
the end ―

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V.9.
Mystery; the mystir-
ious things revealed
in the gospel.
First in the eternal mind -
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Then to patriarchs xc
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Now more fully to
gentiles in the gospel
Eph. 3:4,5. 6:19. Col. 1:25-27.
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V.10
Dispensation xc; Appoin-
ted time ―
All things xc. All believers.
2 Cor. 5:17. ―
Not all together, now.
But will be. see 1 Thess 4:/16,17
Even in Him ―
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V.11.
In whom. Christ ―
Inheritance. Rom. 8:17.
1 Pet. 1:4,5. ―
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God has not only appoin-
ted, those, who believe
in Christ shall be Sons
of God, V.5. But that
they shall have an in-
heritance.
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V 12.
As God's grace moving cause, so
his glory must be praised.