Verse 19. _But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe without blemish, and without spot,_ Verse 20. _Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you._ Verse 21. _Who by him do beleeve in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God._ Verse 22. _Seeing yee have purified your soules in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeined love of the brethren; see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently,_ Verse 23. _Being borne againe, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever._ Verse 24. _For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flower of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away;_ Verse 25. _But the word of the Lord endureth for ever: and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached unto you._ In this part of the chapter, there is contein’d an exhortation to persist and goe forward in the grace of God; which is the Scope of the whole Epistle, as was shewed before. Now this duty is described in generall in the 13. verse, and afterwards is set forth, and pressed by divers arguments in the verses following. From the description of the grace before proposed, there is as it were a conclusion drawne, which is inferred by a necessary connexion and consequence from the nature of that grace, as it was before described; which evidently appeares by the conjunction _Wherefore_; and that is the reason why in all the parts of this exhortation, as they are distinctly propounded, there is a singular respect had to some part of the description that went before, wherein the nature of that grace was explained. The duty therefore to which the Apostle doth exhort, is described. First by the cause and principall part thereof; which is _a lively hope_, of which there was mention made before in the third verse. Secondly, By the singular object of this hope, in beholding whereof it should be confirmed and strengthned; which is that grace? that is now in some measure brought unto the faithfull, but shall hereafter be communicated more fully and perfectly; in these words: _Hope for that Grace, which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ_; which part of the description, is taken from the end of the 7. verse. 3. By the adjunct of constancy and perseverance, which is especially aim’d at in the whole Epistle, as the chiefe scope thereof; in these words: _hope to the end_. 4. There is added also the manner and meanes of performing this duty, when he tells us, that it should be done couragiously and readily, with sobriety and watchfulnesse, in these words: _Gird up the loines of your mind, be sober_. This exhortation is set forth