VER.1ÿ. Epheflans,iCbap.rè 1:69 fhould give a penfion for life out of this or that, .while .'he hath farre greater things left him, yea, the inheritanceof that alfo,` out ofwhich an annuityas it were for a time is graunted to fome other's' Thus it is our Father dealeth with us, while he dothboth referve for us greater things, and alto bequeath the everlafting inheritanceof heaven and earth to us, inwhich wicked ones have but a Efateof life, till we fhall come to our full agein Chrift : Sec moreofthinverfe t t. Obferve laftly, who they arc, to whom belongeth this inheritance, Do 7.5 vii; the Saints ; fuch asarenot onely cleanfed from the guilt of dead workes, but by the fpirit of Chrift renewed to true bolineffe, and brought towalke in all holy Converfation, i Pet. 3.11. r Thef.4.7. For weeare called inChrifi, bathteeutwardandinward fanllifrcation.See elí s 26.58. So likewife, Co/off. 1. To receive inheritance with the saints: c titade re fit to have inheritance with the Saints in light. Ifyou aske this queflion, Why we fhall have the inheritance of life s It is anfwered, thegraceofGod in Chrift is the caufe whywe obtaine it. If youaske who fhall have it, fee Pfal. 24. 3, 4. Hee whole hands are innocent, whole heart is pure, who looketh not tovanity. This inheritanceas the gloryof it decayeth not, no, doth not fo much as wither ; fo it is for ftate an undefiled inheritance, No uncleane thing may enter, Revel. 21. Againe, to whom doe men leave inheritances, is it not to Children or Allies, whohave the fame flefh and blood as it were with them s So God will not give his inheritance but to thofe who have the divinena- ture, and are made holy in forme likeneffe as he is holy, though not in like perfection. The ufeis, to let many fee how they deceivethemfelves, who looke tobe faved, but lovenot holineffe; they love to live after their igno- rance and lulls ; they will mock at men , who will not runne to the fame excelle of ryot which themfelves doe. Know this, that when wife men will not leave their fubftance tochildren ofan adultreffe,God will never give thee the inheritance ofglory, while thoucontinueft a child of this world, loving nothing fo much asthe pleafures, pompe, and profits ofit. Let us in the fecond place, labour for holineffe ; True holineffc it is fife 2. not a goodnature, nor moral! juftice, nor external! profefïionofreligi- on fo farre as ftandeth with our owne wits; No, where we firft re- nounce our will, there we firft beginneto beholy. What then maketh Saints to finde out how our whole nature is polluted , to fttike at the roote, and feek to get purgedofthat finne which dwelleth in us, to fight againftthofe finnes, cuftome, compleetion, age, company,moftincline us unto, to leek to God to make us grow up in holineffe and his feare ; he that doth thefe thingsis happy ; he that doth not thefe things is buta painted fheath,and whited fepulchre, hebath nothing but a powerleffe Phew, which the Lord abhorreth. And what is the exceedinggreatneffe ofhisp eer:awards tsswboheliive, ire it 3 ;fge according to thewrrkingofhis mightypower. Thefecond thing to be knowne,is thepowerofGod;not that abfo- Qv lute
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