John Trapp on Matthew 18:14

Verse 14. It is not the will of your father] Happy for us, that we are kept by the power of God to salvation, 1 Pet. 1. 5. for else it were possible for us to fall away and perish: an intercision there might be, nay an utter excision from Christ, were not his left handCant. 2. 6. under us and his right hand over us, and both his hands about us, to clasp and hold us fast to himself. But his right hand is our [illegible: 1 word], and his left hand our Boaz. Both which pillars in the porch of Solomons Temple did shew, not only by the matter whereof they were made, but also by the names whereby they were called,1 King 7. [illegible: 1 word]. what stedfastnesse the Elect stand in before God, both for present and future. For present they have strength in themselves: for future, God will so stablish them with his grace, that they shall never wholly depart from him. As for reprobates God saith of them, [illegible: 1 word] that will die, let it die; they shall die in their sinnes, as the Lord threatneth the Jews; which is a thousand times worse then to die in a ditch or in a dungeon.