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VER.Id.
Ephefaant,Chap.I.
115
land,Ireland,
are
in
our
King
united,and
all
madeone
body
poliiiticke,
fo
it
is
with the members
of
Chrift
in
heaven and
earth; now
being gathe-
red under
Chrift theirhead,thcy
muff needs
be gathered
one
to another,
as
fellow members
in
one and
the
felfe
fame
body,Rom.I
a.There
being
not
onely
a
bond from Chrift to
us,even
the bond
of
his
fpirit,and from
us
to
Chrifl,
even our
faith, but
a
bond of love, the
bond ofperfeetion,
which doth
hold
us
one with
another.
Let
us
then to
preferve our
union,walkewith
Chrift,
and keepe
by
yfe
I,
him
:
Even
as
itis
in
drawing
a
circle
with
compaffe and lines, from
the
circumference to
the Center,
fo
it is with
us
;
the more they come
necre
the Center, the
more
they
unite, till
they cometo the
fame
point
;
the
further they goe
from the
Center
in
which they
are
united, the more
they runne out one from the
other
:
fo
when
we keepe
to Chrift, the
fleeter we
come to him, the
-e
we
unite; but
when we runne
forth
into our
owne lulls
and private raction,
then we
are
one disjoyned from
the
other.
Againe,we mufl,feeinginChrift our
head we are
joyned,as members
Y%
z.
of
one and
the
fame
body;therfore
we
muff
be
fo affected
each
to other,
as
we
fee
members are
:
They
envie
not
one
another, the Foote
envierh
not the Eye, they communicate
each
with other
;
the Mouth taketh
meate,the Stomacke digefteth,the Liver maketh
bloud, the Eye
feeth,
the hand handleth,
all
for the
good
ofthe
whole, they
will
not
revenge
themfelves
:
if
going haffily on foote ftrike the
other
kg
or foote,
it
will
not
ftrike
again
;
they
fo
beare
the burthen one
of
another, that
their
affe
&ion
each
to other
is
not
diminifhed
;
as
if
the
head
alce,
the
body
will
not
carry
ic,
and knocke it here
or there,
but
beareth
the
in-
firmitie, doing it
the
cafe
it
may; yea,
being well
affe&ed
to
it,
no
lea
then
before ;
Now
that God,who islove
it
felfe,
teacheth
us
thefe
things.
From this that
he faith, All
the things which are
in
heaven,or
in
earth.]
Dos
.5
Obferve,
That
there
is
no
place,
in
w
hich
are any
members belonging
to Chrift,
but either
in
heaven
or
in
earth.
Thus,Colof..r.the Apoftle
did
not know
any
belonging to reconciliation, wrought by the bloud
of
Chriff,
but they wereeither
in
heaven
or earth
:
The
Scripture
doth not
know but
two
kindes
of
men
;fume
beleeving,paffed from death to life,
fomeunbeleeving, over
whom wrath abiderh;though force
have grea-
ter faith
&
fanélification,it mattereth not,degree
changeth not the
kind;
a
child
is
a
man,no
lefsthen
a man
for the
kind
of
him:Itacknowledgeth
not
but two ftates;fome
as
Pilgrimes
here,Wraftlers,
Souldiers,runners
of
the race;fome
as
at
home,having
received
the crowne,the garland
of
vietory:So it acknowledgeth
but two Times,the
one
in
this
life
oflabour
which endeth
in
death,Eccleftheother ofreff,afrer
this lifeended;8leffed
are
they
that
dye
in the
Lord
,ehey
ref?
fromtheir
Wear
:
In
like
manner two
Places, belonging to
all
faithful'
Souldiers
;
The
one
is
earth,in which
they
are
for time
of
their warfare:
The
other
is
heaven,where they reff,
receiving
the crowne,which belongeth to them
:
Even
as
thofe
materiali
¡tones were either hewing and polifhingin
themountaine, or tranfpor-
ted