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V
E
R.?
Epheanr,C
hap.t.
doth
produce
by
his
fpirir,a
life
ofgrace,
which
would prefently be
extin&,if
he (hould forfake
them.
The
Vfe is
to let
vs
fee
the
feareful] e(Iate
of
the Papifts,
who
make
Cirift
and
his grace
raft
no
longer then till they
are
(
as
they
thinke
)
enabled to
iuftifie and faue
themfelues by courfe
of
grace,
according
to
the Law
:
They.
account
it
grace,
that God
would
in-
able
me, rather then another
to
come
effeéfually
to
life,
but no
grace that
I
come
to
life
; as
when
I
might
fell a
Horfe
to
tinny,
it
is
my fauour
that
I
will fell him
to
one,
and
not to another
;
but
it
is
not
my fauour
that
hee
bath the Horfe which buyeth,
and
ergo,
by
force
of
communicatiue
suffice
is
to
haue him. Thus they
fay it
is
Gods grace, that
hee will
haue
Tome
to haue
life,
and
glue
them
wherewithall to
buy
ir,but that
they
haue life,
isiuftice,
net
his
grace.Poore foules,thas
they
forfaketheir
mercies, betides
that,they
make mercy to
haue
nothing to doe
at
the day
of
iudgemenr, and life
it
felfe
not to
be
grace, contrary
to that
which
is
aboue
named.
We learne hence,
euer
to humble our felues,
and flye
iotirely to
Gods
mercy; let
vs
confeffe
our
felues
miferab!e, vnprofirable fer-
uants
in a
thoufand regards, hauing
nothing
bur grace
to
cleaue
un-
to. The
arch-Papilts confeffe,rhat
for uncertainty of our
ownrighte-
oufneffe, and
danger
ofvaine-
glory, it
is
the
fafeft, ro tru`I onely
on
Gods mercy
in
Chrifl
;
furely let
vs
rake
the
fafeft way
:
I would
neuer
trolt
my
foule
to them,
who will
not
goe the furefl
way
to
worke
in
their owne
ftluations.
Obferue
3.
from
this,
he
doth with grace with them, when hee
would with them
the
greateft good ;obferue
I fay, what
is
the mo(t
excellent thing, which
is
ro be
fought,afore
all
other,vie.. the fauour
of
God, that
his
grace
may
be
with
vs.
To
open
itoefore
we
dif=
courfe
of
it
a
Grace ioyned
with
piny,
Both lignifie
Gods loue
only,
fo ferre
as
it
is
a
fountaine,f-rom
whence fpringeth
his
pirtie
to
vs
in mifery
;
out of
which mercy he
doth,
when now
we
are miferable,
faue
vs;
thus grace
is
toward
vs;
thus gracefoundeth
nothing but
loue,
and
theobie&
of
it is
more
generally
for
grace
is
toward
vs,
and euery
creature,
in
innocencie,and mifery; but
mercy
is
onely
toward
vs, as we
are
confidered
in
mifery
;
velefrè
the
preferuing
the mutable creature fubieét to
fall, may
alto be
an
obicct
of
mer-
cy
:
but when grace
is
put indefinitely,
thengraceincludeth
mercy
in
it;
for mercy
is
but
grace reflrained and limited
toman,
as
in
mifery
;the
difference
is
rather
in
our manner
of
containing them
felues.
'Nowwi(hing
them grace, out
of
which
came
true peace;
he
wifheththree things.
1.
That God himfelfe
fliould
be
fill
mer-
cifully
and graciou(ly inclined
to
them.
for
God
is
lose,
r lob;
4.16.
2.Hedoth
alfute themof
all
effeftsof
Gods
grace
and
loue
towards
them,
partly
in
procuring them
all
things
that were
good;
the
grace
of
the father
of
lights, being
as a
Sunne; Pfsl.84.a.
partly
in
pro
tectin;them
from all
euill;this
fauour
being
as a (Meld,
where-
with
the Saints are
compaf£ed
about,
P¡x1.5.13..
3.
In
grace,
is
in-
cluded the
ligoifcation;the
report
of
his
grace,
in fuch
fort,
as
that
they might
haue
the
fente
of
it, that
is,ihe difplaying it on
their
heads
as
a
banner
;
the
¡bedding
of
it
into their
hearts; the lifting
of
his
Greti
rediti»
e axon
7e!
n-
tsriedimens,
nan
en
ebitllie,
Y./'e.,.