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VEIL s
E,s3,
Dodf,z,
Ephefianl,Chap.
t.
V
E
R.23,
have that they have,
not
for themfelves onely, bnt for the whole body;
Thus the
Stomacke
hath meats, the
Liver
blood,
fuch
is
the Head:
Now
it were
an
unnatural part for
thefe,to
keep
that
they
have
to
them
-
felves,as
for the Liver to
keep
in
all
thebloodand
not impartit
by
wines
to
the refl
of
the body;fo
Chrift(who
can
do nothingwhich
Both
not
be-
feeme
him)he having for
all
of
us
thefulnefs
of
grace
and
glory,accord-
ingto that,
Pfal.r6.a.
(My
good
rs
for
the
Saints
;he
cannot but
bemoff
ready
to
communicate
with
us
everything that
is
good
:
onely
let
us re-
new our faith
and
repentance,
that
fo we flop
not the
paffage
of
this
fpirit from this our head
:
If
the
naturali head
of
the
naturali body
be
never
fo ful
of
fpirits,ifthe
veffelsthat conveigh it,be
once obitrueled,as
in
the Palfey, the
body
then
is
without
fence
and
motion
:
We
may
ap-
.ply
it toour felves, &c.
Obferve fecondly, that
he
faith,
this
our
head
is
over
a11:
Whence
note, that God
of
his
grace, hash not onely given
us
a
head, but
filch
ahead,
to whom
all
things arefubjeél
;
he
who mull be
a
Paving head
to
us,
there
is
great
neede he fhould be
over
all
:
Could
he
not
binde
that
thong
one
, and caufe him
re-
deliver
his poffefliion,
how
fhould
wee bee ever
Pet
at
liberty
e
Could
he
not diffolve
theworke
of
Satan,
fwallow
up
death
,
create
life and
quicknance
in
us,
our
cafe were
la-
mentable. This
is
to
be marked
;
for
it
is
a
fpurre to thankfgiving:
It
is
grace
(hewed* Commonwealth
when wanting
a
head it bath
a
tolerable
one
bellowed
:
But
when God
doth,
as
he
did
by
us,
give
us
a
King, great before
his
entertainment amongfl us,
whole
power
might the better procure our weale,
and fecure
our peace, this
is a
double mercy
:
fo it
is
to
give
us
a
head, yea,
a
head over
all,
fo
mighty that
wee may fleepe
on each care, without feare
of
any
e-
nemy.
Secondly,thisdoth
Phew us a
ground ofconfidence
:
What
need
we
feare any
creature,
who
have him that
is
over every creature
e
if
he
be
outs, who
can
be againli
us
! Looke
as
Qeenes
on earth, they
feare
not
fubjeels difpleafure,becaufe they are fo neerely united
to
him
who
coni-
mandeth
every
fubjed
:
fo it
may be with every true
member
of
the
Church, ifour
unbeleevinghearts
fay
not nay.
Which
is
the
holy.] Obferve, that
as
Chrift
is
the
head
of
beleevers,
fo
they
are
his
body,
and
every beleeving foule
a
member
of
this body,
whereof
he
is
the head.
Beleevers are fo faid
the body,
as
the
body
flandeth
in
oppofition
to the
head, not
as
it
includeth the
head within
the
compaffe
of
it, accordingly
as
we
ufe
it
when we
fay here lyes
filch
a mans
body, for
here we put
body
for
an
effentiall part of
filch
a
mans
perfö,not
as
oppofed
to the
head,but
as
including
the
head
with
the
rei
of
the members,
under
the conception
of
it
:
But the
Church
is
faid to
be
a
body,
as
the body
is
diflinguifbed
from the head, whofe body
it
is,
and
ergo,
it
is
fo
Paid
the
body, that Chrift who
is
the
bead
of
this body
is diftinguifhed
from
it.
Now
the
multitudebt
beleevers
are fitly
it)
called;
for
as in a
body
are divers
members,
having
their
feverall
faculties for the good
ufe
of
the whole
;
fo in
'the Church
there
are