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Daí2.6.
Ephe
(1ans,
Chap.
I.
that
young Saint$,
prout
old
diuelr:It
is
a wonder that
fuck
helhth
ow
set
dare flye in
the
funthine
of
fo
Chriflian
a
profeflion
as
is
made
a-
mongft
vs.
This letteth
vs
fce
what we mutt endeauour to
euen
that
we
pro-
feffe.
We
hate in ciuill
matters, that
any
fhould take vpon him that
he is
not
teen
in, we count
it a
groffe kinde
of
counterfeiting
:
Let
vs take heedc
of
taking
on
vs
to be members
of
Gods Church,
and
Saints, when
wchaue
no care
to
know
God,
and
get
our hearts
cleanfed
from
all
filthy finfull
corruptions that
raigne
in
them:The
rather
let
vs
doe ir,
for
our
pride,couetoufneffe, ìniuftice,
drunken
fenfualities,they are double iniquities,
and make
vs
more abhomina-
ble then Turkes, and heathens.
Whether
is
it
more odious
for
a
finglo
Maide,or married
Wife,
to
live
in
vncleanneffe
?it
is
naught
in
both, but
moft lewd in
the
latter;
the
doth not
onely
defile
her
body, but violate her
faith
which
the
hath given to man
and
that
ie fight
of
God:
Thus for
vs
who profeffe our
felues
Saints,marri-
ed
to
ffod;for
vs
to
line
in
the
luftsofour
owne
hearts, dothe:t,
ceedeall
Turkifh andheathenifh
impiety; They
are loofeand
free
(as
I may
fo
fay)
they
haue
not
entred
any
couenant
with
the
true
God,
in
Chrift.
We
fee
the vanitie
of
many, who thinke
they are
not
tycd
fo
aridly
as
others,
becaufe they make
not
fo forward
profeffion:
Warne
them
of
an
oath, ofwantondiffoluteneffe,
they flip
the
collar
with
this,
that
they are
not
of
the
precife
brother-hood ; yea,
they
allow themfelues in
that,
for
se
hich
they will be on the top
of
ano-
ther,
becaufe
they
profeffe
no
fuch
matter,
as
the other doth
;
butthis
is
their
groffe
ignorance;
Ask
them whether they
will
be
members
of
the
Church
;
they
anfwer,
yea,
If
thou wilt be
a member
of
Gods
Church,thou
profeffeftthy
felfe a
Saint,
and
what profeflion
I
pray
thee
can
be more glorious
?
1n
Epbefos.]
This
was a
mother Citie,
famous
for
Idolatry
and
Coniuring,
as
the
4flsof
:be Apo/lles
tali
fie
; fo
giuen to all
riot,
that
it banished
Yermodor, in
no
other
confideration,
but
that
bee
was
anhoneft
lober man.
This
people
werefo wicked, that heathens
themfelues did deeme themfrom their
mouth,worthyto
be
firangled;
yet here
God
had his
Church.
Obferue then, that
in
molt
wicked
places,
God gathereth
and.
maintaineth
his
people: Thus when the world
was
fo
wicked, that
the
patience
of
God
would
Beare no
longer ; the Lord
had
a
Nob
in
it
;
thus
he
had
a
Me/chi/deck
in
Canaan,
a Lot
in
Sodome,
a
106
in
Vz,
a
Church
in Pergamus, where the Deuill
had his
throne:
where God hath
his
Church,wee
fay,
the Deuill bath
his
Chap-
pell
:
fo
on the
contrary, where
the
Deuill hath
his
Cathedrajl,
there
God bath
his
people. Looke
as in
nature,we
fee
a
pleafantrofeirow
from
amid¢ the thornes,anda
molt beautiful! Lilie fpring'out
of
fumy
waterith
places. Looke
as
God
in
the
darkncffe
of
the
night
maketh
beautiful
lights
arife;
fu here
in
thedarkeft
places he
will
haue fome men
who fltallthine
as
lights,
in
the midft
of
a peruerfe
generation.
This God doth firftin
regard
of
himfelfe, that
he
may
difplay his
mighty power and .wifedome
fo
much more
ciearely
:
Thus