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fhould give
a
penfion for
life
out
of
this
or
that,
.while
.'he
hath farre
greater things left him, yea, the inheritance
of
that
alfo,`
out
of
which
an
annuity
as
it
were
for
a
time
is
graunted
to
fome
other's'
Thus
it
is
our Father dealeth with
us, while he
doth
both
referve
for
us
greater
things, and alto bequeath the everlafting inheritance
of
heaven
and
earth to
us,
in
which
wicked ones have
but
a
Efate
of
life, till
we
fhall
come
to
our
full agein
Chrift
:
Sec
moreof
thin
ver
fe
t
t.
Obferve laftly, who they
arc,
to whom
belongeth
this
inheritance,
Do
7.5
vii;
the
Saints
;
fuch
as
are
not
onely
clean
fed
from
the guilt
of
dead
workes, but
by the
fpirit
of
Chrift
renewed
to
true bolineffe, and
brought to
walke in all
holy Converfation,
i
Pet.
3.11.
r
Thef.4.7.
For
wee
are
called
inChrifi,
bathteeutwardandinward fanllifrcation.See
elí
s
26.58.
So likewife,
Co/off. 1. To
receive inheritance with the
saints:
c
titade
re
fit
to
have inheritance with
the
Saints
in light.
If
you
aske
this
queflion,
Why
we
fhall
have
the
inheritance
of
life
s
It
is
anfwered,
the
grace
of
God
in
Chrift
is
the
caufe
why
we obtaine it.
If
you
aske
who
fhall have
it,
fee Pfal.
24.
3,
4.
Hee whole hands
are
innocent,
whole heart
is
pure,
who
looketh not
to
vanity. This inheritance
as
the
glory
of
it decayeth
not, no, doth
not fo much
as
wither
;
fo
it
is
for
ftate an undefiled inheritance,
No uncleane
thing
may
enter,
Revel.
21.
Againe, to whom doe men
leave
inheritances,
is
it not to
Children or
Allies,
who
have
the
fame
flefh
and
blood
as it
were with them s
So
God
will not give
his
inheritance
but
to thofe who have the divine
na-
ture,
and are made
holy
in
forme
likeneffe
as
he
is
holy, though not
in
like
perfection.
The
ufe
is,
to
let many
fee
how
they deceivethemfelves,
who looke
to
be faved, but love
not holineffe; they
love
to
live
after their igno-
rance
and lulls
;
they will mock
at men
,
who
will not runne to the
fame excelle
of
ryot which
themfelves doe. Know this,
that
when
wife men will
not
leave
their
fubftance
to
children
of
an adultreffe,
God
will
never give thee the inheritance
of
glory, while thou
continueft
a
child
of
this
world,
loving
nothing
fo much
as
the
pleafures,
pompe,
and
profits
of
it.
Let
us
in
the
fecond place, labour for holineffe
;
True
holineffc it is fife
2.
not
a
good
nature, nor moral! juftice, nor external! profefïion
of
religi-
on
fo
farre
as
ftandeth with our owne
wits; No,
where we
firft
re-
nounce
our will, there we firft beginne
to
be
holy.
What
then maketh
Saints
to
finde
out
how our whole
nature
is
polluted
,
to
fttike at
the
roote,
and
feek
to get purged
of
that
finne
which dwelleth
in us,
to fight
againftthofe finnes, cuftome, compleetion, age, company,moftincline
us
unto,
to
leek
to God to make
us
grow
up in holineffe
and his feare
;
he that
doth
thefe things
is
happy
;
he
that doth
not thefe things
is
but
a
painted
fheath,and whited fepulchre, he
bath nothing but
a
powerleffe
Phew,
which the
Lord abhorreth.
And
what
is
the exceedinggreatneffe
of
his
p eer:awards
tsswboheliive,
ire it
3
;fge
according
to
the
wrrkingof
his
mighty
power.
The
fecond
thing to be knowne,
is
the
power
of
God;
not
that
abfo-
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lute