7ER.xz. Fphefaans,Chap.r. '!q1= _.; Sixtly and laftly,he doth not confirmthat as he confirmeth us; for he hath neither gotten by' his deathfor them this graceofperfeverance to the end, neither Both he fhadow them and follow them with ayds outward and inward, as he doth us, left our faith fhou.1d be prevailed, againft ; they have beene no doubt confirmed from the beginning both by force of their election, and preventing them 'with aéì:uall grace, whichmade them with effeít execute what ever'-thing it was in which it pleafed God to prove their obedience; if they have' any confirmation fromChrift their King,itis finchan one as doth make them thong to fubdue evil) Angels , or any oppofing them in bufineffes, inwhich their miniftery by Chrift is imployed, filchari one may bega- thered,Dan.to.r3. First then, feeingChrift is given us as a head fo neerely end.commu= 1'f t. nicatively joyned untous, let us abhorre that facrilegious ufurpation which the Pope committeth, while he challengeth us to be head of the Church;Thatwhich theScripturedoth attribute as proper to rift, is not to be given toany other : But theydiftinguifh, that the Scr re makethChrift theprincipal! and invifiblehead,but this hinders no why therefhould not be a vifible fecondary minifteriall head. c.1nf. There needeth not a minifteriall head to fupply Chrifts bodily abfence.; For asKings are inbody prefent at Court onely , and yet well enough governe their bodies politicke; So Chrift in regard of his :bodily prefence inheaven, canwell enough rule that part of his bodyin earth, without the fupplyofa vifiblehead. Were the Pope a minifteriall head, he might doe that which theprincipali, wholeroome he fupplieth, as Viceroyes doe, that in the kingdomesover which they are let, which the Kingsmight doein their owne perlons, whole roomtsthey fupply; But the Pope cannot doe any inward thing which the head of the Church is to performe. 3. Were therea minifteriall head,'. there fhould -be a Lord-like power over part of the Church out ofChrifts perfon in force othercreature ;then fhould there be more Lords then one,con- trary to that in r Car. 12.5 .Thereore divilions ofminiileries; but one Lord. Looke as great Lords in earth have in their houles minifteries ofmore and leffe honor, from the Reward to the skullerie, but no Lord-like or ` Mailer-like powerin any betide themlelves;fo is in Chrift&hisChurch, which is the houle ofGod, whereinhe isthe Lord, Apoftles, others; having more or leffe honourablefervices, but no Mafter.likepower o- ver the meaneft of their fellow-fervants. We fee hence thegreat grace. ofChrift, who doth fo neerely unite yfe z: himfelfe withus.Kings inearth,the fleeter they come to any'Subjed,the more they fhewTheir love; but this is the greateft grace they can thew, when they make themfelves to becomeone withanyoftheir fubje&s r Thus Chrift could not fhery usgreater grace then tomake us one with himfelfe as a conjugall head, ruling'over us. We fee hence, thatwe may afiäre our felves we Mall lack nothing, who haveChrift become á head tous, in fo neere and communicative fort, as this is r There are fume official) parts in -the body, which. S have
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