46 ¡Inc baptifmu Aicitur, v7$0. ,uós. ACommentary upon theGo(ßeó Chap.3. Men de lumisse, from thefatheroflights, who giveth his fpirit to them that ask it. It mutt be a coal from his altar, which when youhave once gotten, your heart mutt be the hearth to uphold it; your hands, the tongs to build it; Gods ordinances, the fuell to feed it; the Priells lips, the bellows toblow it up into a flame: I. So (hall we finde it ( according to the natureofure) I . To i1 lighten us , as the leaft fparkes of fire lightens it fife at a, leatt, andmay be feen in the greaten darkneffe. a. To enliven and job, ;. revive us.; forWhatfoever is ofthefpirit is fjíirit, that is, nimble and aecive, full of life and motion. A bladder is a dull lumpith thing, fo is a bullet : but put winde into the one, and firer to the other in aGuns and they will flee farre. Fire is the molt a Liveof semis quaffs allother elements, ashaving much form, littlematter; and there- ignia,ideft,fri- fore theLatines call a dull dronith man, a fireleffe man, which gU:u,;gnavus, God cannot away with, What thoudoefi,loequickly, laid our Savi- Tardieno ntibrw ourto lidos : Spodious to him is dulneff.- in any butineffe.Baruch, sinus nonfa- full ofthe fpirit, repaired the wall of lertefalemearne(lly, Nehem, tar. ctc. sae. Seaecendit, he burft out intoheat, and fo finifh'd his part - in (hotter time, I preffetoward the mark, faith °Paul, dfwxw, I per- fecute it, Phil. 3.14. Never was he fo mad in perfecuting the Saints, Ai.26. i i . as after his converfion,hewas judg'd tobe,the other way, 2 Cor.5. t 3. De Cæfare Pat+lus in omnia preceps, Low.a.not: NilaSlumcredens,cumquid fpereftagendum. 3. To aflimulate : As fire turns fuell into the farne property 3° with it fell; fo doth the fpirit inform the minds, conform the will, reform the life, transform the wholeman more and more, into the likeneffe of the heavenly patern, it fpiritualizeth and 2, Cor,3uit. tranfubitantiateth us, as it were, into thefame image from glory to glory, as theSunne ( that fire of the world) by often beating with itsbeams, upon the pearl,makes it radiant andorient, bright 4, and beautiful) like it Pelf. 4. To elevate and carry the heart hea- J h 6. ven-ward, as firenaturally afpireth, and the (park fleeth upwards, lieb.ia,r. of tire will en. to kindle our Sacrifices, and make us heavenly-minded; to break The leaf (park out at length, though fora whileit lie under the weight of fin, deavour to rife that doth fo eafily befet us : as fire may lie puffing and blowing above the air : under green wood, asalmo(t fmoothered. 5. Topurifieus (as fo the Spiri :. fire doth metals) fromourdrof fe, and to take, away all our fine, 1. I fa. i .2 5. z Cor.9.i I. For he is likea refinersfire, and like fullers f pc, Mal.3 ,z, wherebywe are purified, by obeying the truth , ton. to
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