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V
Eg,33,
Epheflan,r,Chap.I.
Which
confideration doth firftfhew
us,
that
none
of thofe who
either
live knit
to Chrift
onely by externall profeffion
,
yea, none
of
thofe
, who
receive force
effeEts
of
the
fpirir ,
which for
a
time
onely abide
in
them
, none
of
all
thofe who
in
the end
(hall heare
that
fentence, Depart from
me,
were ever
true parts
of
Chrifts body
;
for
Chrift
is
made the fuller and compleate
by
all his
true members,
and
fhould
be maimed
if
he
lacked
one
of
them
:
Thefe,
ergo,
belonged
to
his
body,
as a
wooden legge
or
glaffe,
doth to
the body
of
a
man,
or
at
the
molt,
as a
bunching wenne,which
is
more inwardly continued,
and
bath
a kinde
of
life,but
it
is
not quickned
as a
member
of
ir,and
ther-
fore itremaineth the more compleate when fuch
are
cut
offfrom
it.
Is
every beleeving foule
a
member
,
making
Chrift
their heade
more
full
e
This
then Both
affure
us,
that Chrift
will
keepe
us,who
are
true members
of
him
,
and not
fuffer
any thing
to
feparate
us
from him. Is it
not
a
blemifh
in
the
body,
wherein one member
onely
is
wanting
f
So
Chrift
fhould be
maimed,
if
we
were
any
of
us
loft, who exift
in
him,
as living
members
of
him.
Befide,
what
naturali
head would part with a member
,
were it
in
the power
of
it
ftiil
to enjoy
it
Wherefore
when
Chrift
wanteth no
power,
wee
may
affure
our
felves
her
wanteth
no
will
to
preferve us in
that
union and
communion which
as
members
wee have attained
with
him.
This
Both let
us fee
a
ground
of
patience againft the
contempt
to
which true Chriftians are fubjeól
in
this prefent
world.
Men often
deeme them the
refufe
and
offall
of
all
others
;
but this may encourage,
Chrift
Both
thinke
fo
honourably
of
us,that
he counteth himfelfe may-
med and imperfeét
without
us.
If
great onesfavour
and refpeótus, we
pate
not
what
inferiour perfons thinke
of
us
:
So fhould it be here, we
should digeft difgrace
from
men
more eafily,to thinkethat
our
great God
and
Saviour
hath
us
in
fuch eftimation.
Obferve laftly from this defcription
of
Chrift,
who
filleth all
in all,
that
w
hatfoever
thing
is
in us as
Chriftians,all
of iris
from Chrift,Colof
z.
r
e.tn
himwe are
compleate,
filled
with
all
heavenly gifts, which
ferve
to
remove evill,
or
fetus
in
Rate
of
bieffedncfTë;
So
Ce10J3 .x
a. Put
on
the
new
man,in
which Chrift
is
al
in
all
:For looke
as
what
ever things are
in
naturali men, are
all
from
the old
Adam,
as
for
example
;
That
they
are
of
this compie&ion,this ftature,feature,fexe,in regard
of
their
body,
that
they are
of
(harpe
mindes,reaching
wits,or otherwife,that they
are
in
this Country,in this
civili
condition,
what
ever
they
have according
to the
fafi
ion
of
this world which
paffeth, all
is
from the fir(t Adam:
fo looke about
thee, what
ever thing
is
to be
feene in a
Chriftian
`as
a
Chriftian
,
all
is
from
Chrift
this fecond
Adam,
who
f/leth
a
in
aff.
Should we have any any thing which we received not
from
him,. we
might
fo farrre
boaft
in
our felves,
Ergo,
We
have
not
any
thing
which
is
not
given us
by Chrift, that
all our rejoycing
might'
be
in
God through him. He doth
furnifh
us
with the whole
fuite
of
Grace
and
glory, that
his magnificence
might not
in
the
leaf}
degree
S
3
be.
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