Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 12:2

2. And be not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind , that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God .

Do not Fashion or Accommodate your selves to the corrupt Principles, Customes, or Courses of worldly and wicked Men; and what they are, you will find in chap. 13.13. Eph. 5.18, 19. 1 Pet. 4.3. You have somewhat the like Counsel, Exod. 23.2. 1 Pet. 1.14.

q. d. Be you Regenerated, and changed in your Whole Man; beginning at the Mind, by which the Spirit of God worketh upon the inferior Faculties of the Soul, vid. Eph. 4.23.

By proving, understand Discerning: By the Will of God, His revealed Will in his Word; and so it best Accords with the reasonable Service spoken of, ver. 1. and with the Scope of the Text it self; which is, to exhort unto holiness and obedience, which is according to the Rule of the Word. He annexeth Three Adjuncts to the Will or Word of God; It is good; Revealed only for our Benefit. It is Acceptable, i. e. By Obedience thereunto we shall be Accepted: It is Perfect, and the Observance thereof will make us [illegible: 1 letter]o too, 2 Tim. 3.17. There are different Readings of these Words, but all to the same Sence. Some thus, That you may prove the Will of God, which to do, is Good, Acceptable, and Perfect. Others thus, That you may prove what the Will of God is; and what is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Marginal references: Joh. 2.15.; Or, to this [illegible: 1 word]; Or, altered in form and fashion: Metamorphosed.; Eph. 1.1[illegible: 1 letter]. Col. 1.21, 22. and 3.10.; 1 Thes. 4.3.