Footnotes

1. Ephesians 1:3 The first part of the Epistle, wherein he handleth all the parts of our salvation, propounding the example of the Ephesians, and using divers exhortations, and beginning after his manner with thanksgiving.
2. Ephesians 1:3 The efficient cause of our salvation is God, not considered confusedly and generally, but as the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
3. Ephesians 1:3 The next final cause, and in respect of us, is our salvation, all things being bestowed upon us which are necessary to our salvation, which kind of blessings is heavenly and proper to the elect.
4. Ephesians 1:3 With all kind of gracious and bountiful goodness which is heavenly indeed, and from God only.
5. Ephesians 1:3 Which God our Father gave us from his high throne from above: or because the Saints have those gifts bestowed on them, which belong properly to the citizens of heaven.
6. Ephesians 1:3 The matter of our salvation is Christ, in whom only we are endued with spiritual blessing and unto salvation.
7. Ephesians 1:4 He declareth the efficient cause, or by what means God the Father saveth us in his Son: Because saith he, he chose us from everlasting in his Son.
8. Ephesians 1:4 To be adopted in him.
9. Ephesians 1:4 He expoundeth the next final cause, which he maketh double, to wit, sanctification and justification, whereof he will speak hereafter. And hereby also two things are to be noted, to wit, that holiness of life cannot be separated from the grace of election: and again what pureness forever is in us, is the gift of God, who hath freely of his mercy chosen us.
10. Ephesians 1:4 Then God did not choose us, because we were, or otherwise should have been holy, but to the end we should be holy.
11. Ephesians 1:4 Being clothed with Christ’s righteousness.
12. Ephesians 1:4 Truly and sincerely.
13. Ephesians 1:5 Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of eternal election, whereby God is saith to have chosen us in Christ, to wit, because it pleased him to appoint us out when we were not yet born, whom he would make to be his children by Jesus Christ: so that there is no reason here of our election to be sought, but in the free mercy of God, neither is faith which God foresaw, the cause of predestination, but the effect.
14. Ephesians 1:5 God respecteth nothing, either that present is, or that is to come, but himself only.
15. Ephesians 1:6 The uttermost and chiefest final cause is the glory of God the Father, who saveth us freely in his Son.
16. Ephesians 1:6 That as his bountiful goodness deserveth all praise, so also it should be set forth and published.
17. Ephesians 1:6 Another final cause more near, is our justification, while that he freely accounteth us for just in his Son.
18. Ephesians 1:7 An expounding of the material cause, how we are made acceptable to God in Christ, for it is he only, whose sacrifice by the mercy of God is imputed unto us, for the forgiveness of sin.
19. Ephesians 1:8 Now he cometh at length to the formal cause, that is to say, to vocation or preaching of the Gospel, whereby God executeth that eternal counsel of our free reconciliation and salvation in Christ. And putting in place of the Gospel all wisdom and understanding, he showeth how excellent it is.
20. Ephesians 1:8 By which gracious goodness and bountifulness.
21. Ephesians 1:8 In perfect and sound wisdom.
22. Ephesians 1:9 For unless the Lord had opened unto us that mystery, we could never have so much as dreamed of it ourselves.
23. Ephesians 1:9 Not only the election, but also the vocation proceedeth of meer grace.
24. Ephesians 1:10 The Father exhibiteth and gave Christ, who is the head of all the elect unto the world, at that time which was convenient, according as he most wisely disposed all times from everlasting. And Christ is he in whom all the elect from the beginning of the world, (otherwise wandering and separated from God) are gathered together: of which some were then in heaven when he came into the earth, (to wit, such as by faith in him to come, were gathered together) and others being found upon the earth, were gathered together of him, and the rest are daily gathered together.
25. Ephesians 1:10 The faithful are said to be gathered together in Christ, because they are joined together with him through faith, and become as it were one man.