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Ephefians,Chap:t.
Vi
it.14.
led
:
But
the
fpirit may
be knowne
of
us ;
for
that which
is a
fignemani-
fefting
other
things to
us,muf
needs it felfe be
manifeft.Now
Saintrohn
faith,
By
this
we know
God dwelleth
in
no,
and
we
in
him;
bet-amp
bee
bath
given
no
of
bins
/birit : Vnreafonable Sheepe cannot know
the
markes
wherewith they are marked
;
but reafonable
fheepe
may
know
the
Peale
wherewith they are
fealed.
Thirdly,
we
may
gather how
fearefull
the
(fate
of
fuch is,
who will
fcoffe at
the fpirit, at Purity,
Holinefle
:
Surely
as
God hath
his
Peale,
fo
the Devill hath his: when
he filleth men
with
darkneffe in middeft
of
teaching, hardens their hearts till
they know not how to
be
afhamed,
and
penitent, filleth
them with hatred
and fcorne
of
fuch
as
are more
confcionable
then themfelves,
it
is a
prefumption
God hath
given them
up
to the power
of
Satan,
that
he might
Peale
them
to eternal! damnati-
on.
Who
is
the
earneft
ofour Inheritance, until!
that
redemption,
purchafed
to
the
praife
of
his
glory.]
He commeth
to
defcribe
the
Spirit more parti
titularly from that which
he
is
unto
us.
Firft, for
the
words: It
is
to
be
marked
that
he fpeaketh
not
of
the fpirit
as
a
thing
in
the Neuter
gender,
ufeth
the
article Mafculine, to point out
the
perfon
of
the. fpirit
; and
our
Englifh relative
(who)
doth
more
di{tin
lly anfwer
to
the
Greeke,
then (which).
This word
(Earneft)
is
in
the
original!
tongues more
large then our Englifh,and may lignifie pledges, pawnes, hoftages,
as
well as
camel,
which
is
in
contra
of
buying and felling onelyexer.
cifed,and
is a
giving
Come
fmall part
of
a
Cum,
to
affure
that the
whole
(hall
be tendred accordingly
in
due feafon. Inheritance
is
put
for
that
confummate inheritance
of
glory,
kept
for
us
in
heaven,
r
Pet:
r.
Ynttll
the
redemption,] not
for the redemption
; it
is
the famepropo-
fition
which we read
chap.
3o.
The
redemption
is
here
to
be
under
-
flood, not
of
that which we
arefaid
to
have,
ver.7. but
of
the redempti-
on
of
the
body, or
of
the
full
liberty of the
Tonnes
of
God,which
is
kept
till
that
great day.
The
fumme
is
:
Yeare fealed with the fpirit who
is in
you with
his
gifts,
and
is
unto you
as an
camel
in
hand,
affuring
you
that
you
(hall
have
thatperfeét
inheritance bellowed on you, yea, it dwelleth with
you,
as an
earneft confirming you
in
this behalfe, till
that
redemption
of
glory
befall
you, which
is
purchafed to
the
praife
of
Godsglorious
mer-
cy.
The
parts are two:
Firft,that the
fpirit
is
Paid
to
be
an earnefl
of
our in-
heritance;
Secondly,
the
durance
of
time,
in
thofe words,
to, or
:swill
the redemption :
which
is
defcribed from
the property adjoyned,
a re-
demption
purchafed
;
fecondl
y,from the end,
to
the
praife
of
hisglory.
Firft
then
that
he changeth
the gender,
and fpeaketh
of
the
Spirit,
as
a
Perfon who
is,
it
is
to
be marked,
not
onely
as
confirming
the
fpirit
to be
a
diftinéì
perfon from
the Father
and
the Sonne,
and
alto
giving
us
to confider that
we have
the
perfon
of
the
fpirit
dwelling with
us,
and
the gifts
and graces
wrought
in
our foules.
It
is
not
with the
fpirit
and
hisgifts,
as
with
the
Sonne and his
light,
the body of the Sonne
be-
ing