V 6 R.10. Ephefianf, Cxhap.2. I zb7 honour or his own : This is the groundof the Apoftles Exhortation, Gloriirte Rodinyour bodies, and in your fins,for they are Chrifls, t Cor. 6. zo. Chis fhould provoke us to walk worthy our highand holy calling; God hath made thee a glorious creature, and for glory, there. fore (hew forth thy felf, and carry thy fell in all thy wages worthy of that glory that God hath expreffed upon thee: Let God reap where he hath lowed ; Godhath fowedupon thee in thynew creation, the feedof glory witha very plentiful) hand, therefore let him reap abun- dance of glory from theein thy heart and life : Search, and feek, and enter into that inquiry of the Prophet in the 116 Pfalm,ver. t a. What fha11 ! render ? Vic. All his glory is upon me, the gloryof his infinite wifdom, o rcie, goodneffe : What (hall I render to the Lord for all this e Vpon this Meditation, fay with the Prophet, verf. 13. I will rake the cup, &c. We fee plainly that other creatures, they glorifie God in their kinde, they fulfill the Law that is impofed upon them in their creation, that is, in their kinde to glorifie God; man onely that Math the greateft caufe, and beft means, he onely comes behindc. Notehere, in that he faith, [InChrift defies unto good works] noteth him as a Patient, and matter of all our bleffedneffe. [In Chrift] that is, by being ingraffed into him by Faith. [In him] that is, as the immediate worker from the Father. The firft,when he fpeakethofthings done by God abfolutely,with- out refpe .t of application in us. The fecond, when he fpeaketh of fuch benefits as we finde now being in Chrift. The third, when he fpeakethof things already wrought in us, as when the right hand doth lift up the left; The foul, which putteth it felt forth in the head and foot, is the caufe of it ; but not as it is in the head, but as it putteth forth the faculty ofmoving in the hand: So the Godhead abfolutely confidered of, the Father may be Paid the Author of the wholework ofour Redemption ; but yet this cometh tobe done by the Godhead immediately,as it is now confidered in the perfon of the Son. Wernuft look at thefe things as wedo at the Sun, ifwe will fee it more fully then oureye can bear, we are blinded with brightneffe : And fo, if we pry too curioufly into fuch things, our fight will be dazled with unfearchable glory. Chrift is the fe- cond ,ildam : As from Adamby propagation we receive our being ; fo from the fecond Adam , who is a quickning fpirit, the Lord from heaven , we have all the fpirituall being of our whole perfons. God doth not work in us, but through Chrift : Whatfoever God theSon did do in hisown fiefh , the Father iithe moviag of it did it, and the Spirit did it : But yet immediately the fecond Perfon did ir, as being neerly knit by unity of nature, whichneither the k,lit.thet was, nor the Spirit ; fo, whatfoever is done in us, the Fathernath, and the Spirit doth ir, but inChriá, and from Chrift, as who is more immediately coupled tous then the Father and the Spirit; we have neither 1Qpte: Howmi(graze comethfrom God. X. 2. 3*
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