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142.
Ephefianr,Clrap.
r.
V
ER.13.
figuratively
fignifie a
fingular
confirmationgiven to faithful!
ohes tou-
ching their redemption:The feale,the holy fpirit,that is,both the
perfon
of the
fpirit dwelling us,and
the
graces
of
the
fpiritinherent
in
ias,which
is
here
laid
a
fpirit
of
promife,
becaufe
God
had fore-promifed
toput
HS
fpirit into our hearts;
that
his
word &
fpirit fhould never leave
the
faith.
full
feed ;
that he would poure out the fpirit
on
all fiefh;
which
fold-fine
promifes make me think
that
this phrafe
is in
this fenfe rather
to
be con
-
ftrued
,
as
Gal.3
,
4. wee
are
faid
by
faith
to
receive
the
promife
of
the
Spirit ;
that is,the
fpirit
of
promife,or that had
beene promifed
as
here
it
is
uttered.
Dolf.4.
Firft obferve, that
the
faithful! are
as
it wereby
Peale
confirmed,
cou-
ching their falvation and
full
redemption;for this
is
to
be fupplied from
the 4.Chap.3o.ver.Who
confirme.
h
1,
who
bath anointed
t
a, yea,who bath
paled
eu,a
C07.
I.
As God
did
Peale
his
Chriff,
as
the perfon
in
whom
he
would be
glorious
by
working our redemption
;
fo he Both
leak
hs
who
arc beleevers,
for perlons who
[hall
have redemption
by
him.
E-
ven
as
perlons
contraEting
doe mutually
feale
and deliver each
of
them
their deedes
in
feverall
:
fó
betweene God
and
the
beleever;the
be-
leever
doth by
faith
let to
his
leale
as it
were,
that
God
is
true
in
that
which he promifeth
,
John
3.33.
and
God
he
dóth
feale
unto the
belee-
ver,that
he [hall
be
infallibly
brought
to the falvation he hath beleeved;
for to
feale up
beleevers ro
redemption, or
ro
Peale
redemption to
be-
lecvers,
are
here equivalent. Looke
what
a
Peale
let on
any
thing doth,
it
agreeth
well
to
beleevers
:For
firft
a
Peale
maketh fometimes things
fealed
fccret
;
Thus the
graces
of the
fpirit make beleevers
unknowne
ro
the
wodd,who
have
not
received
the
fame fpirit
with them,yea,fuch
as
nonecan
ordinarily know their happineffe befide themfelves
:
üYJ
love
it
like
a
fountains
pled;
for
this
eau
fe theWord
knoweth you
not,becauf
it
knoweth not
the
Father,
r
John
g.
z.Secondly,
a
leale
doth
diftinguilh
5
thus
the beleevers are
a
peculiar to
God,
are
let
apart;
as
the
firft fruits
of
the creature, aretaken out
of
the
world. Thirdly;
A
Peale
doth
make
things aurhenticall
:
Thus
meatures, cloathes, deedes,
any
thing by
the
Peale cc
mining
,is
confirmed
and
warranted
in
the
kind
ofit
:
Thus
be-
leevers
they
have
that
given
themwhich doth fullyaffure their
falva-
tion
alwaics,yea,which doth not onely
make
is
fure in itfelfe,
but
tome-
time
put
it
out
of
all
doubt with them, that they
can fay,
they
know
whom they
have beleeved, and
that
he
is
able
to
keepe their falvation
they have trolled himwith to
that
day,: Looke
as
Kings
when
they
cake
any
to
great
offices,or
to
haveand
hold
lands,
matter
of
inheritance
here
or
there, they give their feale,
that they
may
the
more
fecure it
un-
to
them
;
fo
doth God
to
us,
when now
he
raketh
us
beleeving to that
heavenly inheritance.But
it
may
be
objected by
many beleeving hearts,
we
find no
afrurance,bur much
doubting ever
and
anon,though
we hope
we have
and
doe truly beleeve.
It
is
one thing
to
have this
or
that
furely
by
deede and
Peale
confir-
!med,another to know that
we have
a
thing
fo
fealed
:
As
men in earthly
things may have lure evidence
for
this
or
thar,and yet not alwaies know
the