· .. 31 z Book. IV. Laokinguiato :Jefus. chap.z.aed.6 -------- - -- --------.: ___ and fancbfied by his Spirit. To this purpofe is that o£ the Rom. 1 !. 1 . Apo!lle, 1 b:feechr,u brethren by the merciiufGod, thatyou prefent pur bod~es a lvvrng.facr:fice, holy, ~ccr-ptable 11nto qod. In the Old Te{lament they dtd after a corporal manner flay and kill bea!ts, prefenting them, and offering them uato the Lord. but now we are in a fpiritual manner to crucifi eand morcifie thd flef11 wi i h the affections and lnll:s, aU our inordin:lte pafiions all our evil affections of anger, love, joy, hatred are to be c~ucified. and all that is ours mufl: be given up to God; there muft ben~ ' love in us but of God, and in reference ro God; no joy in us but in God, and in reference to God; nv feare in us but of God and in reference to God; and thus of all other the like paiftons: 0 that we would look., to 'fe/w. , an~ be like unro Jcfus in this thing! if there be any honour, any happa.e1fe,any excellency, it is in this . even in this ; we are not fi t for any holy duty, or any religiou~ 1 Thef,4. 3· approach unto God without fandification; this is the will of God (faith the Apoft!e) evenyourf.mEli{ication; all the commands of God tend to this, and for the comfort of us Chriftians, we,have under the Gofpel promifes of fanCl:ification to be in a larger .rlach,t 4.:o,u meafure made out unto us, In that day there foal! be upon the bells of the horfes hc/inef[e unto. the L ord.--yea every pot in {erufalem and in 'fudah , (h,r/1 be ho/mef[e uuto th.e Lord; e~ery ve1fei u.nder Chrift and the Gofpel mull ha l'e wntten upon tr, holineffe to rhe Lord; thus our fpiritual Cervices, figured by the ancient ceremo. nial fervices are fet out by a larger meafitre of holine.lfe then was in old time : it is a fweet refemblance of Chrift to be holy, for ' fo he is {tiled the holy child 'fe.fw.; he was fantbfieJ from the Al:'ts 4 'l 7 • womb, and fanttified in t?e won:b for our imi~ation: for their fakp I f anElijie my felfe (fatth Chnft) that they alfo might be (anJohn 17. 19 Eli fie d. 3, Chrift the fonne of man is by natu re the Sonne ofGod, fo we poore fonnes of men mull by grace become the fonnes of - God, eved,.ofthe fame God and Father of our Lord Jcfus Chri!t, GaL 4 • 4,! , 7 for this very ei'ld God fent his ow» Sonne made of f1 woman, that we rece'ive the adoption of fonnes,- wherefore thou art no more a but a(onne, and if afonne, th.m lin heire of God thmtgh This intimates that what relatton Chrift hath unto the . ..'""';';"'v nature, we iliould have the fame by grace; by nature _ he.iohe or1/y bcgottm Sonne of the Father, and ao many as received John 1,14 y.u. · him
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