We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
I desire the Reader to remark with me the alteration that is here made in the language of the Speaker. All that went before is delivered by one person, and is in the singular number. But here, it is as if by more than one, and is in the plural. And what can this mean, but that Jesus, as the Speaker, promiseth in his own name, and jointly in the name of the Father, and the Holy Ghost with himself, to give his Church the blessings here spoken of. Let the Reader recollect a similar form made use of at the creation: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Genesis 1:26. And so again at that glorious vision the Prophet saw; Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Isaiah 6:1-8. Let the Reader further recollect the commission Christ gave to his Apostles in the moment of his departure, when committing his blessed gospel into their hands, that they should go forth and baptize in the joint name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 28:19. And let the Reader call to mind at the same time the Holy Ghost's words by Paul the Apostle, when blessing the Church; in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Ghost. 2 Corinthians 13:14. Let the Reader bring all these scriptures into one point of view together; and then let him determine for himself, whether we are not to consider what is said in this verse; We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver, as the covenant engagements of all the Persons of the Godhead to the Church in Jesus, that she shall be blessed with all spiritual blessings of God in Christ Jesus the Lord. Ephesians 1:3. I need not enlarge on that part of the verse, in inquiring what those blessings are. No doubt the borders of gold and studs of silver mean to include all blessings, temporal, spiritual, eternal. Everything, and every state, shall be sanctified and blessed: for God having chosen the Church in Christ, and Jesus having married the Church to himself, and washed her from all the filthiness, and from all her idols; the Holy Ghost hath made her, and, will make her a glorious church not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that she might be holy and without blemish. Ephesians 5:27.