Ezekiel Classic Commentaries

Evan Boardman
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

Ezekiel doesn't seem to be doing good, which is a shame. William Greenhill is in this set!

Greenhill talking about concurrence on Eze. 18:31

God said to Moses,Exod.xiv.16,"Lift up thy rod,stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it."Had Moses power to divide the sea? no, but because there was a certain concurrence of Moses using the rod according to direction, therefore it is attributed to Moses, which was the work of God alone: ver.21, it is given to God, for when Moses stretched out his hand, it is said, "The Lord caused the sea to go back." So making "a new heart and a new spirit," is given to man, because of that concurrence of man in using the means appointed of the Lord; but when the new heart and spirit are wrought, they are the work of the Lord, as appears, Phil.ii.13; Eph.ii.10. Thus we are to understand all those places which put so much upon a man, as to believe, to repent, to put off the old man, to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, to put on the new man, to cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, to lay hold upon eternal life, to be filled with the Spirit. In these, and the like places, is nothing given to the power of man, if rightly understood; but man is commanded to apply himself to those means by which God works faith, repentance, holiness, salvation, and conveys the Spirit.
These words, then, do not hinder but that the Lord may, and doth, work efficaciously in the conversion of a sinner.God bids men use means, wait upon him, and he will work powerfully in them by his grace and Spirit; and that the Lord doth work powerfully, see Eph.i.19; Col.ii.12-13;Deut.xxx.6; John vi.37.
-William Greenhill on Ezekiel,pg 468,txt 18:31

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