Verse 10
10. His workmanship Instead of our being the workers, God is the worker and we are the workmanship the fact accomplished. Created by a new and better creation.
Unto good works For we are not only elected from past faith, but we are elected unto good works. Note, Romans 9:13.
Before ordained Literally, hath pre-prepared. God has not only constructed us, but he has also constructed a whole set of works and ways in which we should walk. He has planned a whole suit of Christian graces, active and passive; heavenly tempers and beneficent doings which he has modelled for us in Christ, and set before us, to exemplify in our own character and future history. There are ignorance, guilt, and misery enough in the world to call all our new life into Christ-like action. We may, like him, go forth and cause the blind to see, the lame to walk, and even to raise the dead dead as the Ephesians, in Ephesians 2:1. God has beforehand written a good biography for every man to live. And his life may thereby be like that of Jesus himself a blessed gospel.
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