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VE;x.15.
Epheliatu,Chap.1.
I
__
be
Paid
;;both
the
fpirit leave
us
at the time
of
our
full
redemption !
No,
but
though
it
dwelleth with
us,
yet
it
teat
th
to
be
a
pledge
of
further
matter; even
as
the money
given
a
man
in
earneft
bideth
with him
when
hee
bath the whole fummepaid, but it
is
no longer
an
earneft
of
further money to be received.
This then
is
our
comfort, who
have found this
holy
fpirit
dwelling
vp.
and
working
in us
:
Though
it may leave filch
as
Saul,
whom it never
fanEtified,yet
it
(hall never
depart quite from them
whomit bath
in
truth
fanftified ,
but they
(hall like
Di/vie/then have it praying
in
them, that
is,teaching them to pray,when they think themfelves molt devoid
ofit.
Obferve laftly, that
he faith we have
a
pledge given us, till the re-
Doti.
demption come which
is
purchafed
for
us
;
that
here
the
faithfull
fee
not
themfelves fully delivered
:
We
are the
Seance
of
God,
but
it
appeareth
not
what
we
jhall
be
;
we belee
ve life
everlafting, we doe
not
fee
it, yet
we
by
nature lye
in
dart
-neffe
offinne
and
mifery, God will have our
light returne
fucceffively, even
as
the
light
ofthe
Sunne,
which
(hineth
from
one degree
to another,
till
it
come to
full
itrength,Prov.q..
There
is
a
double redemption, the
one
which we
have
by
faith,verf7.
the
o-
ther which
we (hail
have
in
that great
day
;
This redemption belongeth
immediately
and directly
to
man, to
the creature
mediately; for
in
that
great day
the
creature (hall be
changed from the
vanity and bon-
dage
of
corruption
to which
it
is
fubjec.
As the
firft Adams
treafonable
defection
deferved
to
be punifhed
both
in his
perfon,
and
in all
the
things which
appertained to him
;
fo it
was
meet
that
the
fecond
?dams
obedience
fhould
not onely reflore man, but
the creature alto which
might
any way
be
a
fit
appurtinance to him
in
his
Elate
of
glory.
But one
may aske,
what
ufe
there
(hall be
of
there vifible heavens,
of
the earth,
when
mans manfion
is
prepared
in
thofe third heavens !
In
thefe things
we
are not to be curious
:
What if
God
will have
them
and
as a
mo-
nument
of
his
former power, wifdome,
goodnefl'e,
toward
us
in
our
pilgrimage
e
Againe, we feeit
is a
flate belonging to
earthly
Princes, to
have houles here or there, which
fometimethrough
all
their
raignes
they doe
not
once
vifit.
What
refpecleth man,ye may
find in
that
I have
written on the
r
3.verfe.
The
ufe is,
to
encourage
us
equally
to
beare
the
evils
which
preffe V ¡e
rö
us
:
Had
we
nothing to complaine of, ourredemption might
well feeme
already pa(t. O this
is
our
rejoycing,
here
we
know mifery
in
many
re-
gards,
but our
Jubilie,
our year
of
redemption hafteneth: God
doth
fo
feat}
his
children, that he
will have
their bell
difh
Taft.
When
travellers
let out
in
the fogge
and darke
mitt
ofthe
morning, it doth
comfort
them
that they know the day
is
at hand,
and
they
(hail
have
itfayrer
and
fayrer
:
On the
contrary,
if
thou getteft not this pledge
of
the
holy
fpirit
of
Chrift,
thou
haft received
thy confolation, nothing doth
abide
theebut weeping,wailing,and gnafhing
of
teeth,
an
eternal' night,
a
reckoning
which
will be more bitter, then
the
pleafures
offin
have
fcemed
Tweet.
Having
thus
laid
down the benefit, he commeth
to
mention
the
cf-
Vanso
ís.
feet