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We preachers have it in use, as to allege proofs of Scripture for the points or subjects we handle: so to give reasons or demonstrations of them. And so does our Apostle here of this great point he had been treating of: and such reasons or demonstrations run often upon harmony and congruity of one divine thing or truth kissing another. Also upon becomingnesses or meetnesses, that is, what it becomes the great God to do. For instance; in giving an account, why God in bringing many sons to glory, did choose to effect it by Christ's death, rather than any other way. It became him (says he) (Hebrews 2:10). For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, etc. And so in the point of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21). Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead; that is, it was congruous, harmonious, it should thus be; the one answering correspondently to the other. The like congruity will be found couched here, in God's bringing souls to glory, before that resurrection.

Now there are two sorts of harmonious reasons couched in the fore-part of these words, He that wrought us for this, is God.

1. That it is Finis operis & [reconstructed: operantis], the end of the work itself upon us; and of God as an efficient working for an end: God has wrought on us for this very thing.

2. It is Opus Dignum Deo Authore, a work as he is the great God, and as a thing worthy and becoming of God as the author of it: He that has wrought us for this thing, is GOD.

There is a third point to be superadded; and that is, It is the interest of all three Persons: Which how clearly evidenced out of the text, will appear, when I have dispatched these former doctrines.