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Ephejana,Chap.r.
VE
11,7,
Chrift
the
ftronger entreth
;
The
confcience
is
made
a
fweet com-
panion and
comforter,rather
then
a
rigorous keeper
:
Being juflified by
faith we are
at
peace.
Where
the
King
hath releafeda prifoner, the
Jay-
for can
have no
further power over him
;
for
he
is
but to
keepe him
during
the Kings pleafure. Againe, by grace,
God doth
fet
our
wils
at
liberty
;
fo
that
finne cannot raigne
m
us
as
heretofore,
Rom.
6.
Grace
which fighteth
againft the
lufts
of
the
flclb, and will
not
let
us
come
under
the
power
of
any thing ; yea, the world
is
crucified
to
us, and we
to
theword
:
For
as
when health commeth,
a
man beginneth to
walke
abroad,
and
doe fuch things
as
he could
not
flirre
to,
while
his fickneffe
did keepe him under
;
fo it is
here. Finally, we
are fo fet
free,
that
we
can fuller
nothing which our wils have
caufe
to
be unwilling
with,
all
things being fuch,
as
fhall
worke together for
ow
good.
Count
it
all
joy
when
ye fall into
temptation, which
is
the height
of
freedome,
that
fo
farre
forth
as
we are regenerate, we cannot
Puffer
any
thing,
though
all
the
creatures fhould
confpire,
but what
our ównewils
like well
of;
yea,
aske
by
prayer,
in
fome fortat Gods hand.
But
it
may be
objeaed,
that
the
devill
doth
ílî11
prevaile againft
us,that
finne
leadeth us captive,
Ergo, we are not delivered.
I
anfwer, redemption
is
double; either,
as
I
Paid,
begun, or
perfeaed
:
Thefe
things
Hand
not with
full and
perfea
redemption, but
they
may
Rand
with it while it
is in
the
beginnings.
We
mull
diflinguifh
the power
ofthe
devill,to hold
us
under condem-
nation, from
his
power
of
moleftation;
and we
mull diflinguifhthe
power
of
finne
raigning over
men,with
willing
fubjeaion,and
ufurping
over him,as now
Pet
free, and makingrefiftance.
In
the former
refpeas, we
are redeemed
and delivered, from what
time we beleeve
;
the latter,
we are
fo
fubjea to,
that
they
!hall
be more
and more diminifhed.
The
Vfe
ofthis
is, firft
to
flirre us up
to
thankefgiving,
even
to
fing
with
u1-tary
our
Magnificat
to
God
;
What
caufe
have
we to
praife
him
who
bath
vifited and
redeemed
us
with
fucha
redemption
r We
fbould
every one
fing the
Fong
of
uríofes,
to
fee
our
felves
thus
delivered.
Let
us
remember how
this
lull,
and
that
paffion,
were
wont to
tyrannize
inus;
Let
us
remember when it was death to
us
to be held
to
duties
ofgodlinefre,
in
which
is
the
exercife
of
true
freedome; Let
us
thinke
of
thole
times wherein finne did
hold
us
fo
Taft,
that though we
faw
the
mifchiefe
of
it, and purpofed fometime
a
new courfe,
yet
we
could
not butreturne to it,
as
before
;
Let
us
remember when
feares
of
con-
fcience
and death have held
us in
thraldome, that thefe
may fet
an
edge upon
our thankfgiving. Left
we fhould
forget
this
duty to God,
God hath
left fome
trouble, fome remainders
;
like
the weather
in ache
of
a
wrefted
joynt, when now
it
is
reftored
:1-low
thankfully would
we
take
it to be
fet free
from the
darkeneffe, deadneffe, fenfuality,
earthly
mindedneffe,
which
we
frill
finde,
as a
clog and chaine
to the
fpirits
ofus
a
If
this would
be
fo
gratefull to be let free from
circumflances,
which moleft
us
onely;
how much more
is
that
our fubftantiall
deliverance from
the.
revenging juflice
of
God,
from the power
of