CHAP . I. upun the Epiffle of JAM.! s. that is, fuch a ftate of grace as we enjoy after the refurreCl:ion; 'cis aMetonymy ofthe St~6je~1. fort~e ~djunct: Free·_grace, you fee, .hathavafi defire and amb1t1on, tt auneth at the holmefs of the glo- " rious and ewrlafting frate ; and indeed this is it whieh makes a -Chrifiian to prefs on-ward, and be fo earnefi in.his endeavours, as Heb. 6. r. with 4· Let m go on to perfection; and then Verf: 4· -Tis impoj]ible for thofc that were once enlight;.Jcd, &c. Implymg, that men go back, when _they do not go on to perfe~~on : Having low-ayms, they go back._ward, and fall off. z. Chnfhans mufi ~e actually perfetl: in all points and parts of Chrifl:ianity : As they Will have faith, they will have patience ; as patience, love and zeal : In IPet,l.I). theruleis, Beyeho!y, Mlamholy, in allmannerof cenverfation. Every point and part of life mufi be feafoned with grace; tht'refore the Apofile faith,C-v '7fr1~~rLVd.>~.o~~' In every creek and turning of the converfation: So z Cor.8.7. As ye abound in every thing, infaith, and tttterance, and k__nowledg, and in ..zll di– lig.tnce, fee thaty-e abound in this grace alfo. Hypocrites are al .. ways lacking in oae part or.another. The Corinthians had much knowledg and.utterance, and little ckarity: As many ProfefTors pray much, know much, hear much, but do not give much; they do not abound in this alfo: As Bafil faith in his Sermon ad divites, I know many that fafi, pray, figh, '7fr1~cJ.V Tnv d.JIJ,7rd.l'ov €ufl.tl{dc-tr!V b,r, J'~ctNUfisv~~, love all cheap ads ofReligion, and fuch as coft nothing but t~eir own pains; but are fordid and bafe, withholding from God and the poor, -'Tl oq;el\&n7og Tn~ J\.ol'7fn{ci~~1»>; Wl:lat profit ha ye they.in thei~ other graces when they are not perfect ? There is almk and cognation between the graces, they love to go hand in hand, to come up as in a dance and confort, as fome expound the Apofiles word, 6m:x,orn')tnlid.1e, z Pet.r ·5' .Addtofaith;vertue,&c~ One allowed mifcarriage or neglect may be fatal ; fay then thus within your fdves,AChriftian jhould be found in nothing wanting: oh.but hoW many fad defects ~tre there iitJ my foul; ifI Wtre weighed zn Cjods Ballance, I foouid be found much Wanting ! Oh £hive to be more entire and perfeCt. 3· They aym at the perfeilion of duration; that as they wculd be wanting inno part ofduty, fo in no part ofthei'r lives. Subfcquent ACts of Apofiacy make our for– mer crown to wither; Thq /ofe what they have wrought,'l Epifi. John, verfe 8. All their fpirirual labour formerly befiowed, is U> · .no purpofe; and what ever we have done and fuffered for the GoE 3 fpel
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