284 Comfort to men already converted. Door. In converts a great change is made for good. Yfe. Triall of con- verllon. Dour. ByCh. ills bloodwe arc reconciled. Exxpoliicion. left r> Anf. Ephe/lans, Chap. 2., VER. 13. none; he can pull Jonah out of the belly of hell : Examples hereof the Scripture bath plenty; Manaffes, Paul,the Thief, Gentiles ; for, Greater is he that is in us, then he that is in the world, t Joh.4.4. TheLordrules in the midfi ofhisenemies, pfal. t t o. z. Laftly, it doth comfort us in the affured hope ofour falvation; and may afiure us, that he will not fail us, till he hath brought us to fal- vatidn , now we are friends, who when we were enemies, reconciled us, and made no near ; much more now being reconciled, fha/l we be frved by his lofe, Rom.s.to. Thirdly, we fee what achange is made in thofe that are now in Chrifl; thecafe is altered,their condition from curfedneffeisiurned into blef- fedneffe; they from beingaliens from Gods people, made to be near every way to God in Chrift : As it maketha new creartire renewed unto light, a new converfation renewed unto the fame; fo a newcon- dition lightfome, that is,bleffed and profperous, for this is the fruit of converfton. This may be amplified, from confideringthe partial. lars of our eftate, out and in Chrift; old things arepattedaway,andaff made new, z Cor.5.17. new man, a new condition. For the new ci eature you have heard of; the new converfation is plain, ifyou have learned Chrift : I liveby the Faithof the Sonof God, who bath given himfelffor me, Gal.2.2o. So for their c tate, full ofall bleffedneffe. God dwellerh with Chrift; we therefore being in him , muff needs have communion with the Father Ind Spirit. Again, Chrift is the head of his members; we muff therefore needs be near to thofe that arc in affinity with Chrift, as in a marriage conjuntlion. So that hence we may judge of ourbeing in Chrift, even by that we finde in him : Look whatfoeveryou have been, ifyou once come into Chrift,you will be altered ; fo that who fo walk indaikoeffé, in ftrife, envying, coveting,involuptuoufnefl'e, all which are enmity with God, they arenot come nearto Chrift: For they that are Chrs, have crucified the flefb, with the lulls thereof Gal. s.a4. By the blood of Chrifl:] This is the laft thing tobe marked, What it is, by which- we come to be reconciled to God ; it is the bloodofChrift. But before we come to confider of it, it is fit to anfwer fomeQue- ftions, which will help us to more fruitfull untlerftanding. Firft, what is to be underftoodby the blood ofChrift e I anfwer, his bodily death, or bloodfhed, with thecurie; for it is a Synecdoèhe. By [Blood] is meant a bloody death ; by bloody death , a death on the crofl'e ; by the deathof the croffe , a turfed death. Though Chrifts interceffion hath his place in appealing God, and other aCtions ; yet this death is chiefly named, becauCe the force that other things have to pacifie God, is derived from this fa- crifice. Secondly, it may be asked , Why the Scriptureevery where na- meth blood. t. To thew in it an accomplifhment of Types. 2. Becaufe
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