66o i NJlite&cltri· flJZTj~ OftheS .ENDING s~~ migremtUhinc, away, hcreis noplaceto fray, andfoleaveus, withou;;;-– ~~ ~ And iffo; aworfe matter,thanall yet. For,He no fooner gone,butin His ·I another will come, and, as he hath Sealedus, fo Seaze on us: and, not alone n/;ce but company with Him,Swenmore worfe t-han himfelfe, and theendofthat lnA» u Ji' thanhubeginning, a thoufand-fold. Thefe they be then, thefe foure: No•t~,.,~' theJe, is 'N._gn contrij1ari. • 0 er ' But then, ifour hap be fo evill, as we doe; yet that we remember, Nolite doe ·e not willingly : Havea wi!!, not to doe it. If we fall into any ofthe forme;fou 1 ' neglefl to receiveHim, when He commeth : • difPofe not our fdves, as we fhouldre, gainft He commeth : Happen to l hruife,orm•rreour Seale: Yea 4 admit aSealingt onir(ofrhe worldupon Go D,the {lejb upon theSpirit, Prophaneupon Holy:)/' let not our willbe to it: At lea£1:, not our whole will; not our fi•ll conftnts. Let it b: happen peraccidens (as we fay) either furprifed with the violence, onvearied wit~ the importumry of thetentation; or circumvented with the fleights oftheserpent. but ever carryvoluntatnn{ifit may be; )or elfe (as in the Schooles they callir}veUei: tatem de-nm contriffAndo. A great matter depends on this : For, wilfully todoe it that is indeed, togrieve; ifit be not more, even to worke defPite to tk' Spiril ofGrace,' .Apptkati•n '" Now, to draw to an end. This reque£1: never comesfo fit, as on this Day. For !h«imr. there is inrhcText, aday ofredeeming; And there is by like analogic, aDay ofsea. ling. As that, CH 11. I ST s: So this, the HoLY GHosTs nay. Now ifthe Sealing~Day, be theH~ly Gh~Jis ;then,reciprec,, theHoly GboJ!s Day,tharis the Da) ?f SeAltng. Andth~s,_ IS the Holy Ghoffs Day. And not onely,for that originally fo 1t was; But forrhat 1t 1sto be Intended, ever, He w1ll doe l-i1s ownechiefe worke llpon His ownechicfe Feaft; andoptu Diei,chc dayesworke,upon theD•y it fdfe. s~ that, nowwearccemeabout, toourfjrfigrievance, Nottore{u{e Him: notatany time; but not, •t His owne Time l not then, when He firs in His office, •nd offers to fetHis SeAleonus. :Ap;tieatio••~ And, that, He now doth. For, when~veturne our[elves every way, we finde the Saer•'"'"" not (in the Office of the Church) what this Sea/elhould be, but theSacrarnent; or, ~Cor. H· what theprint ofir, but,thcgr•ce there received, a mcanes to make us,anda.fltdgtot tarnefl to affure us, that we areHis. The outward SeAle fhould be a thingvijihle, to be {hewed: And theSacrammtii the onelyvijihleparr ofReligion,andnorhing [ubjecr to that [enfe,but it.This Ifind, that the Schoole-men,when they numbred,Seven, thofe[even,werethefevm Stdlts: So,for Stales, they have been everreputed. Bur what doubt wc1 One ofthem,isby :Rom. 4 .,; the .t!poffle, named aSeAle, inexpreffetermes: The.feale ofrighteot<.fnef!e. And,ifone, then the other; Borhare oflike nature. Ondychis difterence bctweene them (for - which we have great caufe,highly eo magnifie thegoodneffe ofG o o :) That,where theoneSeale, (the Se•leofB•ptifme)canbefctto but once, and never repe;~tedmore; this other f110uld fupply thedefechhereof, as whereby, ifwe have not prefervedrhe former figure entire andwhole, we might be (as it were) new.fignedover againe. And that,not oncealone,and no more; but,that it fhould be iterable: wher~by it commerh to paffe, thatofthisSealing, there be manydaies; many daies, to Sealeuswell,_ and makeusfureag;~inftthatone Day, the Day of Re;/emption. GoD thereinprovidmg for our frailencffc. As indeed, without it, agreat many ofus, I know not how we fhould have done. Asta¥ of lttT~i~ then,is theSeale. I adde further,that it may be rightly _called,theStAle ofo<~_r tiempti••· Redemptzon, as whereby, the meanes of our Redemption, IS :;pphed unto us: theBodJe Ioru. 6.•~-- and the Blot~d, onehroken, the other{bed, of Him, whom GoD Sealed to that end, -even to redeeme us. The priat of And by,a_ndwith thefe,chere is graceimparted to us; which gr~cc: is the: very bmth ~" 5 " 1'· ofthis Holy Spirit, the trueand expreffcCharafler of Hisftale, to the rcnewmg1nt~
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