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Yft
z.
VER. az.
Don
Chrifts
bene
-
fits
cobe
ap-
ptyed
co
pelee-
vers particu-
larly.
DO.
Built on
Chri$,
we
are
a dwelling
for
God.
t
Per.z.5,6.
Do%
God
dwelleth
in
and
wich
be-
lectern.
Ephefians,Chap.2.
V
E
R.
22.
2.Cer.
5.
then no marvaile
if
God
and
the
Word
of
his
grace be
able
to
build
men
up
further,
and
to
give
them an
inheritance
among them
'that
are
fanáified, Aiïs.
zo.
32.
Rather
we may marvaile
that
at any time
the word
of
God
fhould faile
of
his effecî,
or that
any
of
his
.fellowla-
bourers fhould
fay,I
have
laboured
in
vain;
But indeed it
is
not
a
vaine
word, but
(hall
accomplifh
that
I will, and profper
in
the thing
where-
to
I
fend
ir, /fay. 55.
ro.
Secondly,it
may
comfort
us
that
wee
(hall in
due
time be
finiflied;
God
will make
up all
the
breaches
and ruines
of
our
finfull nature, and
build
us
up a
glorious Temple for him(elfe, wherein
hee will dwell
for ever.
V
a
R.
aa.
In
whomyen a
fo
are
budded
together
for
an
habitation
of
God,
through the
Spirit.
In this lait
verfe he fpeaketh
with
application to the
Ephefrans
:
of
whom
he layette
downe two things;
r.
their
building together;
2.
the
end,
to
be
a dwelling
of
God:
the manner
being annexed, by
his
Spirit.
The
things,
efpecially
of
the
firft
part
have been fpoken
of
:but
that
he
faith thefe
Ephefians
were thus
and rhus;ir
doth teach
us,that
we
are par-
ticularly
to apply
the
blefsings
of
Chrifi
to thofe
with
wham
we
deale.
It
is
a
good thing to
bring people toknow particularly the things
bellowed
on
them. And the infancy
of
many requireth,
not
onely
that
the
Mi-
nifter have
the
breath
of
the
Teftament,but that
bee bring thofe
hee
dealeth
with, to
take
them rightly
;
and
thofe
that
are more
perfeét,
though they knowthe things bellowed, yet the
dulneffe
of
them
is
fuch,as
if
they be not remembred
in
this
kind,
they
are
fhortof
duty.
And
all are
not
alike
husbands,reviewing their commodities
as
others.
But it may be asked,
how
S.
Paul fpeaketh
this.
r.
In
the judgement ofcharity: z.in the judgement
of
certainty,
for
he fpeaketh of the beleeving, for thefe are
the,
words
of
Faith
in
parti-
cular.
Obferve
firil, how
we
cometo
be
a
dwelling
of
God,
by being buil-
ded on
Chrift;Tau
(faith S. Peter)
being built
on
him,
become
a
fpirltuall
houfe;
by comming unto him
wee have
conjunn
lion with him, and fo
God by
his
Spirit comming
to us:
For Chrift
Jcfus
is
he,
in
whom
is
founded
all
Gods drawing
neare
to
us
:
in
his
humane nature the God-
head
is
perfonally, fo that we
by
Faith being
laid on him,
the Father,
Sonne,
and
holy
Ghoft,
come by
this meanes to
refit
in us:
and
Gal.
3.
re.
the Holy Ghoft
faith we receivethe Spirit
by
Faith;
hee
that
bath
notthe fame,hath notthe Father, nor
Spirit. Even
as
there
muff bee
a
connexion
with the
Head before there
can
bee
a
Communion
of
the
fpirit
of
the Head.
To
be
a
dwelling
of
God.]
Obferve then, that the
believing have
the
Lord dwelling with them
, walking
with
them,
bee dineth and
fuppeth
with them
,
as is
ratified
in
the Old
and
New
Tefla.
ment.
Levit.26. t r. I
will
fet
any
tabernacle amangfi
you,and will
walke
among
you.
John.r4.
17. the
Spirit
of
truth
dwelleth
in
yew,
and
fball
be
in
in
you:
My
Father
will love him,and
we
will comeim:: him
and
make
our
ahead
with him. verfe
23.
It