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V
ER.
7.
Epheflnnr,Chàp.i.
yÍ
of
godlineffe.
Chrift
was put under
the Law, that
we might
be
redee-
med and receivethe fpirit
of
God.
This
fpirit
is
that
life
of
the world, for
wh
ich
he
did
fuffer
death,asthe
Gofpell fpeaketh.
Laft
of
all,
through
this death wehave deliverance
from
all evills, fo
that
all teares
in
Gods time
(hall
be
wiped from our eyes, and
in
the
meanewhile
all our fufferings are fo
changed,
that they
are not
effects
of
Gods
revenging juftice
to deftroy
us
;
but they
are fuch
things,
in
which
God doth
offer
himfelfe
as a
father
,
intending to make
us
partake further
,
by
meanes
of
them ,
in
the
quiet fruit
of
righter
oufneffe.
The
Vfes
of
thefe are
manifold.r.It
letteth
us fee
that
love
of
Chrift,
to dye
for
us,
when now
we did
pradtife
nothing but
open
hoftility
a-
gainft him,Rom.s.
Againe, we
fee
how
fitly
that
is
fpoken
of
this
bloud,that
it
cryeth
fir
better
things
then the blood
of
(,Abell
;
This
Both appeafe
revenge,
not
provoke it, this
doth
call for
all
kinde
of
bleflìngs
:
Wherefore let
us
get
our confciences (prinkled with
this,
and
flye
to
it
by faith,
as
they
were
wontto
the
fandtuary,to the
homes
ofthe
altar
; for this
is
ourtrue
refuge
in
every neceffity.
This
doth
thew us
how we
fhould
efteemeofall
thofe benefits,
as
remiffion
of
f
nne,
&c. which arepurchafed by it:Things bought
at high
price, we doe efteeme
of
them accordingly.Many will not come out
of
their vanity
,
but
leave
the thing
as
not worth the taking
,
which Chrift
hath
purchafed with hisdeareft blòud:Knowing
that
you are redeemed
from
your
vaine converfation,
not
with
flver
and
gold,
but
with
the blond
of
Cbrift,a
Lambe
undefiled'.
Remiffion
of
innes
out
afhic
richgrace.]
Whence obferve
;
Firft, that
to
have our finne forgiven,
is
to
be
redeemed,or
fet free
from
all evill
;
That
which before
he called
Redemption,
is
here
called Remiflion
of
finne.
Our
naturali effare,
ifit
be confidered
as a
fpirituall
bondage,
Chrift
his
deliverance
is
redemption
;but if
it
be confidered
as a
flare,
P
in
which
we (land
guilty,and under
punifhment
of
the
Law,then Chrift
his
deliverance
is
the procuring
of
remiffion
of
finne
;
and
they cannot
but
be one
in
fubftance,
though
in
reafon and confideration
they
differ:
For what
is
forgivenelfe
of
finne,but
an
at
of
grace,acquitting
us
from
all
the
guilt
and
the whole
punifhment of
all
our
finne
a
And
as
we did
fpeake
of
redemption,
fo we may fpeake
of
remiffton
:
For
though the
fentence
of
pardon be
wholly
and
at
once
paffed
to
us,
yet
the
executi-
on
ofthefentence
is
here begun
only,
and (hall
thenbeconfummate,
when every
tea
re (ball
be wiped from our eyes;in
which regardwe may
grant, without
any danger
of
Poperie,
that
in
the
life
to
come,even
at
the
time
of
Chrifts
appearing
to
refrefh us,
or to
re-
animate our bodies
by
thereturne
of
the
foule
to them,thateven
then
finnes fhall
be blotted
forth,that is,
the
fentence
which had abfolved
us
from
all
the
puni(h.
ment and
confequencesof
finne, (hall
then
be
fullyexecuted.
Againe,
the force
of
this
remiffion
is
fuch,that
it
fetteth
men free
from
the
con-
demnation
of
Gods
juftice in
theLaw, from
that power
of the Devil,and
my,
yfe
i,
lift
z.
Doc
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Rete,itiriatir;
Redemption,
rtificatioz,
RZrit,
One
thing in
regard
of
di-
ed.