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vBASà 16.
Dona.
Ephefians,Clap.I.
V
ER.I6,'
truely
holy, but
others
in
whom
holinefre
is
apparent,
they
cannot
en-
dure ; it
is
to be
feared
they
love thofe whom they
doe,not
becaufe they
fee holinefl'e,
but for fome by-
refpeóts
which within
thenìfelves
they
have conceived. Some
who
are
all
for
a
found juft dealing
well
natured
man, though he be never fuch
a ftranger
from matter
of
religion
:
Yea,
I would many
of
the Lords
children,
through
felfe-love, did not
love
too
well perlons
who
can
humour
them,
and finde
the
length
of
their
.
foote, better then
fuch
who
Phew
more confcience
of
obeying God.
Let
us
not be
in
the number of
thefe
3
If
thou
haft any love
to God,
love
his
children thou doeft
fee like
him:
How
cant(:
thou
take pleafure,
and
out
of
thy voluntary, converfe with them who are not
fanétified
Were the
Wife
that lyeth
in
thy bofome without that bodily
life thou
liveft, couldit
thou
take pleafure
to
converfe
by her
t
and canft thou
having
the
life
of God,
delight thy
felfe in
fuch who
are dead in their
Gnnes
and trefpaffes
1 ceafenot to
give
thankes
for
yon,
making
mention
of
you
in
my
prayers.
Now
he comes unto
the
fad,
which ftandeth
of
thankefgiving
and
prayer;
his
prayer being
firft
generally
mentioned,then more
particular-
ly
declared
to the end.
Inthis
r6.verfe, markethreethings.
r.
That
on
heare-fay
of
their
faith
and
love, he
is
thankful! to
God.
z.
That
he
doth
pray for them.
3.
The
manner
that
hedoth
it,
without
ceafing. Obferve from the
firft,
the
Graces
of
God
in
others mutt move Chriftians,efpecially Minifers,
to be thankfull
to God ;Pau/
doth
it
every where, looke the
begihnings
of
his
Epiftles
;
yea
Chriftians
did no
leffe
for
Paul,
Gal.
r.
ult. they
did
glorifie
God
in
him.
The
nature
of
envie maketh
a
man like thofe
who
have
fore eyes,
they
are
grieved
at
the
fpirituall
good
of
others,
as
the
loare eye
is
to
fee
this corporall
light
:
An example we have of it
in Cain
to
t4bel:
but love doth congratulate, rejoyceth with thankfulne/fe
to
fee
truth
of
knowledge,
ofgrace,of
holy pradife,
z
Cor.a
3.
Befides,the
third commandement doth binde
us
to
give honour
to God,by
praifing
him for thefe his workes
of
grace
in
others.
Ifa
Schoole-
Mafter
bring
a
rude untoward Boy
to
behaviour and forwardneffe
in
learning,
we
much commend
him,
that
he bath
wrought
fo farce on fu-undifpofed
a
fubject:
But
how
much
more
is
he
to be
magnified
who
Both worke
fuchalterations
in
(inners, dead in
their
finnes and trefpaffes
Secondly, the nature
of
joy
is
to inlargethe heart to
thankfulnelre:
Now
true Chriftians, efpecially
Minigers,
can
fee
nothing which
doth
more glad them then men walking
as
the truth
is, in
Chrift.
3
Jahn,
verfe
4.
I
have
nojoy
like
to
this,when
I
fee
my
childrenmake
in
the
truth.
Wherefore
let
us
all labour
to
finde
this
in
our felves; that
we
are
thankfully
affeEted
to God
in
the comming on
of
other,it
is
an evidence
of
true
grace
in
our
hearts:
Every thing rejoycethto
fee
the
encreafeof
thofe
who
are
like
to it
felfe
efpecially
Minifers
mutt
praife
God
in the
towardnefre
of
thofe who belong
to them.What
natural(
Parent
can
fee
the
outward profperitie
of
his
children, but that he
is
delighted
in
it,and
thankful(
to
the authors
ofit
Secondly,