Again, in 2 Cor. vi. 1. it is said, _We, as workers together with him, beseech you_, &c. where, _with him_, is supplied to complete the sense; but, I think, it might better have been left out, and then the sense would have been, ministers, are _workers together with one another_, and not _together with God_; they are honoured to be employed by God, as moral instruments, which he makes use of; but they have no other casuality in bringing about the work of grace. The principal reason why the words _with him_, are supplied, is because it seems agreeable to the apostle’s mode of speaking, in 1 Cor. iii. 9. _We are workers together with God_; but, I think, those words might better be rendered, _labourers together of God_[36]; or we are jointly engaged in his work; therefore there is no reason from hence to supply the words _with him_, in the text but now referred to. (3.) If we would understand the sense of a particular text of scripture, we must consider its connexion with the context. Accordingly we must observe, _1st_, The scope, design, or argument insisted on, in the paragraph, in which it is contained. Thus in Rom. viii. the apostle’s design in general, is to prove that there is _no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus_, and to shew who they are, that may conclude themselves to be interested in this privilege; together with the many blessings that are connected with, or flow from it, which the subject matter of that chapter principally relates to. And, in Heb. i. the apostle’s principal design is, to prove the excellency and glory of Christ, as Mediator, above the angels, as he intimates ver. 4. which argument is principally insisted on, and illustrated, in the following part of the chapter. And, in chap. xi. his design is, to give an account of the great things the Old Testament church were enabled to do, and suffer, by faith, of which, there is an induction of particulars in several parts of it. And, in Rom. v. the apostle insists on the doctrine of original sin, and shews how sin and death first entered into the world, and by what means we may expect to be delivered from it; and so takes occasion to compare Adam and Christ together, as two distinct heads and representatives of those who were included in the respective covenants which mankind were under; by the former of which, sin reigned unto death, and, by the latter, grace and righteousness, unto eternal life.