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Lphefians,
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hap.l
.
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E
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include
; It bringeth
us
to have fellowfhipwith
Chrift the
mediator,
with
God,
with Angels, with
fpirits
of
juft men departed, with the
predeftinateones,
whole
names are
written
in
heaven,with
all
in earth,
who
arc beleeving
members
in
Chrift
:
Itbreaketh
company, by
reafon
of
mens
corruption, which maketh them,
they
had rather
live
thrals
of
Saran ,
in
their ignorance and lufts,
and
cuflomes
of
ignorance, then
fuffer
themfelves, yeelding obedience,
to
be
gathered to Chrift.
Doll.3
Obferve thirdly from hence, that this
pleafure
of
opening the
Gofpell,
was
propofed for gathering
all
things to
Chrift
their
head.
Obferve,
that who
fo ever have beene, are,
or
(hall
be
gathered to
Chrift, they
are
brought to
this
by
opening
the Gofpell.
God
did
pur-
pofe this grace
of
opening
the Gofpell, not
forour
fake
onely, who
are
from
Chrift to the
end
ofthe
world, to
be
brought
to him, butfor
their
fakes
who
are
then
in
heaven
when Paul
did write there
words
in
hand.
There
is
but
one eternall
Gofpell
;
never
was
there other name
made
gat. r.
knowne,
in
which
men might be faved, then the name
of
Iefau
Chrift
yeflerday,
to
day,
and
for ever, the onely way
of
falvation.vl
braham
law
the day
of
Chrift,and
rejoyced
;
yea,from
Abel
downward,
it was by
faith on
that
promiled feede,
that they
were accepted.
What
is
the
whole
redeemed
Church
!
a
number
called
forth by God out
of
the
world, to
partake
in forgiveneffe
of
finne,
and
life
eternall
through
Chrift. When
the whole
Church
is
a
multitude
of
fuch
as
are
called;
and
Gods
call
is
nothing but the inward
and
outward, or
at
leaft
the inward
opening
of
the Gofpell, to fuch whom
he
hath
pre-
deftinated to falvation:
It
cannot be but
that
every one
who isof,
or belongeth to
the Church,
muff have
this wifdome
of God
opened
to
him.
Y/e
r;
It
is
to be obferved, notonely
againft
thole
old heretickes,
but
many
deluded foules
in
our times, who
are
of
minde, that
if they follow
their
confcience, and live orderly
in
any kinde
of
beleefe,
it
will ferve their
turne
:
But
he
that followerh
fuch
a
blinde confcience, will finde our
Saviours fpeech true
;
If
the
blinde
lead the blinde,
both will
come
into
the
ditch;
his confcience and he will
both
peri(h,
if
he learne
not
this
way of faith
and
obedience to the Gofpell
of Chrift.
Y
f
a,
Againe,
it
muff
teach
us
to
come under this ordinance
of
God,revea-
ling
his
truth
;
for
this
is
the
great dragge,
which taketh
all
fuch good
fifh,fuch perlons
as
belong
to the
kingdome
of
heaven.
Dotl,g;
In Chrifi,
even in
him.]
Obferve, who
it
is
in
whomwe
are gathered
together,
as
fellow members each with other.
We
are fitly laid to he
gathered in
Chrift together, both
becaule he
hath
aboli(hed
the
enmitie
twixt God
and us, and
fo
removed
that which
did difperfe
us.
a.
He
cloth
call us,
and
effedtually
draw
us
home
in his
time
;
even
as
Shep:
heardsdoetheir
flockes,
which arenow fcattered
:
When
I
am
lifted
up,
I
will
draw all;
How
often mould
I
have gathered
you ?
3.
In
him ;
as in
the
fame point we are
all
of
us
one
:
Even
as
all
the
families
of
the earth,
in
regard
of
Adam
their
firft
parent, the common roote
and
flocke
of
all
imankind;
they
are all
but
one;
Orras
the
Subjes
of
England,
Scot-
land,