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because we are his own new creation; we are, says the apostle, his workmanship, created in Christ

Jesus unto good works, chap. ii. 10. There the Lord divided his blessing, giving to every creature a

different blessing: He said to the earth, Bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruittree

yielding fruit: to the fishes of the sea, and to the fowls of the air, Be fruitful and multiply; and to

man he said, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion:

Here, believers have every one his whole blessing, for each possesseth it entirely. The creatures

then received but an imperfect blessing: but we have received one as full and entire as God could

communicate to creatures. Their blessing was, in the order of nature, a temporal blessing: ours, in

the order of grace, a spiritual blessing. There upon earth; here in heavenly places: there in Adam;

here in Christ. It may also be remarked, that the apostle alludes to the blessing of Abraham, to

whom God said, In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed; and a comparison may

very well be made of the temporal blessings of thfe Israelites, with those spiritual benefits which

we receive by Jesus Christ. Most texts, however, ought to be formally divided; for which purpose

yoii must principally have regard to the order of nature, and put that division, which naturally

precedes, in the first place; and the rest must follow, each in its proper order. This may easily be7

done by reducing the text to a categorical proposition, .beginning with the subject, passing to the

attribute, and then to the other terms; your judgment will direct you how to place them.TM •

Oratiocujus summa virtus est pcrspicuitas, quam sit vitiosa a egeatinterprete! Quint. Intt. lib, i. «.

4. Allowing that texts are to be divided after reducing them to categorical, i. e. to single

propositions, either simple, the subjects and predicates of which consist of single terms; or

complex, the subjects *nd predicates of which are made up of complex terms; allowing at the

mbject is to be considered first, then the attributes, which in ogic are the same with predicates, or

what may be affirmed or clewed of any subject; allowing all this, yet it must not be forgotten wt

this operation, and these terms, belong to the laboratory, and should never appear in

prescriptions to the people; especially as Mr. Claude's proposed end may be better answered

without them. •He aims to make divisions natural: here Ib an example. Archbishop Flechier, on

Saul's conversion, considers, first what Jtttu Chriit did for St. Paul. 2. What St. Paul did for Je»us

Christ. "»the first pan he opens divine compassion, as a spring whenc

because we are his own new creation; we are, says the apostle, his workmanship, created in Christ

Jesus unto good works, chap. ii. 10. There the Lord divided his blessing, giving to every creature a

different blessing: He said to the earth, Bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruittree

yielding fruit: to the fishes of the sea, and to the fowls of the air, Be fruitful and multiply; and to

man he said, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion:

Here, believers have every one his whole blessing, for each possesseth it entirely. The creatures

then received but an imperfect blessing: but we have received one as full and entire as God could

communicate to creatures. Their blessing was, in the order of nature, a temporal blessing: ours, in

the order of grace, a spiritual blessing. There upon earth; here in heavenly places: there in Adam;

here in Christ. It may also be remarked, that the apostle alludes to the blessing of Abraham, to

whom God said, In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed; and a comparison may

very well be made of the temporal blessings of thfe Israelites, with those spiritual benefits which

we receive by Jesus Christ. Most texts, however, ought to be formally divided; for which purpose

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yoii must principally have regard to the order of nature, and put that division, which naturally

precedes, in the first place; and the rest must follow, each in its proper order. This may easily be7

done by reducing the text to a categorical proposition, .beginning with the subject, passing to the

attribute, and then to the other terms; your judgment will direct you how to place them.TM •

Oratiocujus summa virtus est pcrspicuitas, quam sit vitiosa a egeatinterprete! Quint. Intt. lib, i. «.

4. Allowing that texts are to be divided after reducing them to categorical, i. e. to single

propositions, either simple, the subjects and predicates of which consist of single terms; or

complex, the subjects *nd predicates of which are made up of complex terms; allowing at the

mbject is to be considered first, then the attributes, which in ogic are the same with predicates, or

what may be affirmed or clewed of any subject; allowing all this, yet it must not be forgotten wt

this operation, and these terms, belong to the laboratory, and should never appear in

prescriptions to the people; especially as Mr. Claude's proposed end may be better answered

without them. •He aims to make divisions natural: here Ib an example. Archbishop Flechier, on

Saul's conversion, considers, first what Jtttu Chriit did for St. Paul. 2. What St. Paul did for Je»us

Christ. "»the first pan he opens divine compassion, as a spring whenc