Gods glory in mans happiness, with the freeness of his grace in electing us together with many Arminian objections answered / by Francis Taylor ...

Yee see.

Some read it indicatively, * 1.1 Yee see; others imparetively, See, or look upon your calling. They that read it the first way, may urge these reasons:

First, the coherence; it seems scarse to be good English, For look upon your calling.

Secondly, it seems more fully to prove what the Apostle intended, to read it, For yee see your calling; that is to say, yee know the truth of what I spake already, and have had experience of Gods wisdome in choosing you be∣fore many wiser men, and therefore I need not to prove it to you. But the other reading is more consonant to the Originall and native signification of

the Greek word; which is not barely to see, but to fixe ones eye upon a thing, * 1.2 or to look wishly upon it, and with consideration. Now for the Apostle to say, yee do view or look well upon your cal∣ling, peradventure might be more then was true of many of them, for no doubt but there were divers amongst them that did not throughly consider of it: It therefore may seem more fitting to bid them to do so, then to presume they did so already. And this latter reading the Syriack translation fol∣loweth, reading it thus, * 1.3 For my bre∣thren look upon your calling also. Neither is the speech incongruous, but very emphaticall, and very fit for the Apostles purpose. As if the Apostle should have said, If yee doubt whe∣ther the foolishness of God be wiser then men, I will not send you abroad to look for an example to prove it, only I advise you to look inward into your own condition, and see if God have not sufficiently proved it in calling you to the hope of eternall life, when he neglected many wiser men. For thus hath God so provided for your good, that he hath not failed his owne glory. Poor men are

most glad of riches, and most thankfull for them.

But what is it that the Apostle would have the Corinthians to view?

Notes

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