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Ephe/ian.r,Chap.
I.
V
E
and fuch
among thefe
Ephefians, as
obeyed not the truth, but
became
A&
so. z9.
dangerous
wolves
not
fßaring
*flock.
We
may range them into
orders
Three
orders
of
them,
Three
wayes
ofgovernours,teachers,
hearers. In
the Primitive Church the
Devil!
did
work
in
thefe
Eons
of difobedience three wayes.
r.
Caufed them
to
work-
tow
tares. a.
To
live flagitioufly.
3.
To
perfecute. In the
Papifts
all
lag.
All in the
three have place, and
they
doe
as
lively refemble the
Father
of
thefe
the
Devil!,
as
if
they
had been
fpit
out of
his
mouth.
.ro
By
rea
fen
of
our uabeleefe
and
rebellion
the
Devil!
bath
advantage
Satan
potter
in
us
;
his
power
is
by
meane
of
fin.
He can but perfwade,
allure,
fug
-
lies
in
mans
gefl and excite.
Tempting
Chrift,
andfinding nothingin
him,
he
could
ohn
JJohnr
4.3
o,
prevaile
nothing.
Vie.
Againfl
fuch as
will excufe
the matter,
and lay all on
the
Devill,
like
Blame thy
felt
Eve;
the Serpent deceived
me,
the
Devil! owed me a fhame, and
now
for
fin",
nor
Saran atone.
hath
paid me
home
;
had I been left
to
my
felf,
ithad
been long
enough
ere
I would
have done fowickedly.
Nay
but,
ôman,
thou art
a child
of
difobedience, and grievefl, quenchefl, refifteft
the good
Spirit
of
God
who worketh fometime
in
thy heart,and
would frame
thee to
holy
obe-
dience
;
thence
God permitteth,
and
theDevil obtaineth
this
advantage
againfl
thee,
to
fill
thee with
all
unrighteoufneffe.
And
certainly
the
enemy hadnever gotten
the
strong
Cattle
of
thine heart,
if
thy
felfe
had
not
firft
betrayed
and laid
itopen unto him.
VEK.
3. Amang
whorn
we
had
our
c,nverfatio,a]
Now
he
doth
come
and amplifie
it
by
comparifon drawn from
the
like, and
he makeththe ftateeven
of
himfelf
and
the
belceving
Jews
like
in
twothings
:
a
.
In
fin
ai
luall.
2.
In the
guilt
or
punifbment.
r:
Among whom]
That
is,
amongtt which
fins
ofdifobedience, in
whom
Satan
worketh
at his pleafure
;
We
alfo
in time putt converfed
in
the
con
-
cupifcence
of
the
flefh. converfation,
being
here put, a.
for
habitual!
vitiofity;
2.
for the undeliberate flirting and itching
of
it
;
the
later
be-
ing
the imperfeét agitation
of
the former,
called
the
pallions
of
the
flefh
a
Lively
conftrued.
It
is
taken
in
the
fecond fenfe,
for
thefe
two
are
eve-
ry
where diftinguifhed, the corruption, the motions
of
corruption,nom.
6.7,12. 1am.I.14,t
5.
Now
after
he fheweth
what
this
(Walking)
in
them
was
,
a
doing whatfoever this corruption
willed
:
For
to
have
concupifcence
is
one thing
to
walk
in
them, or
be
in
them,
another
thing. He
that
faith he
hath them
not, lyeth,and the truth
is
not
in him,
but
he
that
is
in
Chrift,
walketh
not after them
:
Making
the
feat of
this
corruption not onely
the
fenfuall
part, but the minds
of
man.
a.
The
equality
in
fin
or
punifhment;
We were
by
nature the
Eons
ofwrath,
a.s
well as
the ref!
:
Simply
by
nature,
Comparatively
as
the
reff. The
femme
is
this:
to
When
I
rememberyour eftate,
I
forget not our
own;
re
for though
we
have many outward priviledges, yet fuch
as
doe
not
et
commend
us
before
God, but
in
time pail we were
like you,walking
et
in
the
fuggeftions and
motions
ofour
corruptions, doing
whatfoever
«
our corrupt
will and mindes defired
;
neither
fo
onely
in
our lives,
but
in