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VfiR.ta
pheftan.r,
Chap.
5.
our Sunne, and
we
mug
walke
in
the
light
au
he
is
in
the
light,
that
we
may
havefdowfhip
one
with
another,
in
that
light
of
his
example
of
love,
mercy, grace and goodneffe, wherein he
reveales
himfelfe
to
us
in
Chrilt
and his
Gofpell,
and fhines
to
us.
For
all
the world
walks
in
darkeneffe, and gives us ill
example
or
impeded;
therefore to
walke
in
the lighr,is
to
walke and
worke
in
God,
and after his
example;
and
to
imitate
God,is
to
make him and
the light
of
his
example
our daily
direótion
to
walke
by.
Again,
whatfoeverwe doe after the light
of
Gods
example
as
our
fuone, he
is
alfo our
fhield
to defend
and fave
us,
to
bleffe
and
prolper
us, and fuch
aEtions as
we
do
according
to
his
will,and
our
workes
can
never fucceed ill being
wrought
in
God.
We
are
Gods
image, and therefore we mutt refemble him
in all
things
as
the
fhadów
the body
:
this
is
our
happineffe and full per
feifion, our conformity with
God
whofe
image we
are. And
the
goodneffeof
all
the good workes
we
doe,ftands not
in
the fubftance
of
the worke, but
in
relation
and
conformity to the
rule and
example
by which they
are
done,that they
be done
in
faith,which onely
lookes
to
God,to
imitate
him;
as
the
imageand fhadow
is
in
forme
and fhape
like
the
body,
fo
it moves
as
the
body
moves
:
So we
mutt walke
af-
ter the
Lord
and
follow him,
and we
are no longer
in
being
or
well
being of foule or
body,
life
or converfation, then
as
we follow
God.
We are
Gods
workemanfhip, created
in Chrifi
unto good workes,
which
he
hash
ordained
that
we
fhould
walke
in
them ;
not fuch workes
as
the world
fets
before
us, and mens
example
and
our
ovine
flefh leads
us
unto, but
fuch
as
God
prepares.
Howe
partly by his
owne exam-
ple and
praótice; for this end hath
God
created
us
anew to imitate and
follow
his
example
, as
all wicked men are Satans workemanfhip,
made
fit
to followhim.
For triall
of
our nature,
whether
regenerate
and
borne
of
God or
of
the
world,we
naturally follow the
world
and
imitate
it in all
things,
efpecially
in
wrongs
and
injuries,
our
nature
is
to
doe
to
others
as
we
fee
them doe to
us. But
the nature
of
Gods
Saints
is
to
looke
up
to the
Lord who
onely
gives
us
the light
of
better example. Every creature
naturally
doth
as it
feeth thofe
of
its
kind and nature
to doe,
in
good
orevill
:
hereby we may know
our kind and generation,
whether
we
be
of
God or
of
the
world.
For
inflru&ion, it
letteth
us fee
what
is
true grace,
holineffe, and
what
are
good
workes
and
Gods
wayes,
viz.
fuch
as
by faith are
wrought
in
rtfemblanceof God,looking
up
to
him,and
as
before
him,
and
done according
to
his
example. Have
we never fo
good
a
nature,
never fo glorious venues
fhining
in
us;
if
they be not
wrought in
us
after
Gods image
&
glory
fhining
in
the
glaffe
of
the Gofpell,by faith
¡
;i,anczin us
into Gods image,
as
we
behold
God
in
Chrilt
,
they are
Palle
<
nd
counterfeit: whatfoever good workes
inworfhip
of
God
or
Ifervice
of
men, not
wrought
after
God
his
wifedome, will, example,
they
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z.
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vfe
z,