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 Vse 1. This may serve to admonish us, by no meanes to put asunder those operations which God hath joyned together: Now this they doe, which do either divide Christ from election, or election from Christ, or the election of the Father and Christ from the sanctification of the holy Ghost, promising to themselves salvation, either by vertue of election, or of Christ, when they have not the least part of the sanctification of the holy Ghost. 2. To comfort all the true faithfull, which do joyne these things together: because they can want nothing to salvation, which is not abundantly provided for them in that co-*operation of God the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost. Verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us againe unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead.

Verse 4. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.

Verse 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

The Analysis.

Because the Apostles scope in the generall and former part of this Epistle, was to commend unto the faithfull that true grace of God wherein they stood, therefore he doth first describe that grace, vers. 3, 4, 5.

2. By the effect of it, to wit, joy, and rejoycing, which redounds unto all the faithfull from the partaking of this grace, from the 6 vers. to the 10.

3. He doth illustrate it and confirme it by that testimony, which the Prophets gave unto this grace, vers. 10, 11, 12.

4. From thence he drawes an exhortation to holinesse answerable to this grace, from the 13 vers. to the end of the first chap. The meanes of which holinesse he shewes to be the religious receiving of the word of God, vers. 1, 2, 3. of the second chapter. The chiefe object of which word he shewes to