242 Yfez. Live anfwera- ble to it. Jude y. Dotfrir From firs to laf, all isof grace. Phi}, f.6. Rom. 5.0. Yfe. Afcribe all un- to God. Flop: Gods grace and mans faith ever Rand to- gether. Gal. 3. se. Joh.3.t6. L'pheliana, Chapa. Vx R,8, This muff furtherteachus, to live worthy this rich grace, Tit.2. I o. The grace ofGod hat appeared, teaching or to deny all augodlinefe, &C. We muff take heed we turn it not into wantenneffe, and make it a bolfter for the flefh. Mark fi'condly, the Apoftle faith [Weare raved:] he doth not fay, we art in part faved, reconciled, and indued with the fpirit of God, which yetis true ; but we are faved with himfelf: the falvation be- fore mentioned , dgth teach us to bee undcrftood of full fal- vation. % berfce-wevle-arn, That to the fullglorifyingofue in heaven, allis fro.?NMfree. meer grace of 9o: he doth not begin, and leave us at halVet -to fttiht for our falues; but he goeth through ve that begin. neth Ivillfinifh, wotkiagahour falvation of his grace. Whenwe were enemies to him,thoughhe was juftly offendedwith us, yet did he finde a wayof our reconciliation when we weredead in fins, and could not be fubje& to him, he did turn us to him, and begin in us this falvation ; the inheritance is of grace. When we grieve himwith fin , when weare ready to be,driven out byenemies even then the Lord doth keep'us by his ftrength unto that falvation he hash prepà- red. And the Scriptures every where do fet out the glory of Gods grace, in that wonderful glory (hall be given us, more then in thefe beginning; which if meritcame into thefe, having been utterly ex- cluded in the other, the Lords grace fhouldfail when we come tothe point ofour falvation,and confeffe therein apartner with it,theworks of men. This muff reach us, from thebeginning to the ending, to acknow- ledge the grace of God, and hang on it, as all-fufficient for our full and perfe& falvation : where the Lord layes a foundation of bis fa- ving grace, he will build upon it, and never leave it till he haveper- feted his work. We are kept by thepower of God untofalvatien,z Pet. r;. And therefore the Apoftle faith, Receiving theend ofyalerfaith, the falvationofyour flubr, a Per. 1.9. He that bath beguna goadwork inyou, willfïaifh it unto the dayofthrift, Phil.1.6. He is theauthor and fireifherof ourfaith, Heb. 12. 2. Through faith,] that is, (as I have conftrued) by Chrift beleeved on, or faith on Chrift, foryou molt alwayes take it with the obje&. Markthen firft, How that the grace of God andfaithfraud together, they do not one take away the other. Faith bath been alwaies requifite, as the inftru- nient totake Chrift our righteoufneffe, that fo we might (in Gods fight) be juftified. This is taught every where, Gal. 3.22. TheSeri. pore bath concluded al under fin, that the prounfe(by the faithofJe- fus Chrift) 'build be given to ad. And¡oh. 3.16. God fo loved the world, that he bath given hie onlybegotten Son, that whofoever belee- vethon him, fhould have everlafling life. Where we fee Faith to be brought in as the inftrument, without whichneither the promife can beappropriated, nor falvation attained. So, t 4 9s 16. 3c, 31. What fbdi
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