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V
E
R.
3.
Ephe/an,r,
Chap.
2.
in
our nativities,
fuch
who by
nature were finfull, and
threatned,
yea
« fubject to
judgement
even
as
any
other, there
being by nature no
ex.
cellency
of
the Jew
above
the Gentile.
Firí then
we have to con{ider,how
thatthecholen ofGod
before their
Doll.
converfion have nothing
in
them
differing
from
other
finners
:
The
ele- Efea
bet°re
Tian
ofGod
flandeth frtre,but
before
he call effedtually,it
doth
put
nothing
f
coot
°
m
if
in
the party
cledted
; Know yc not
that drunkards,
theeves,covetoui,
¿rc
?
other
Inners.
Such were
forne
ofyou,
but
now
ye
are walked,
&c.
Even
thole whom God
'
Tun.
z.19.
taketh to mercy, they were
finfull
as
others, before by
his
grace they
Cor.6.9.
are
changed.
Paul,
glary
cMagdalen, thefe
Ephefians
now converted,
what they had been,
look
ver.ir.
And why r.
That
the mercy
of
The
end
ofie.
God
may be magnified and made manifeft
in
the
free grace
of
Juflifica-
tion.
2.
That
love may be
engendred
in
us, juflified
;
Mary
who
had ma-
ny
fins
forgiven,loved much.
So
that
this ferveth
for our
comfort
againft
that
we have been
;
God
Y
¡e
cuts all
fcores
betwixt
him and his
children, thou
maift now
deep quiet-
ly on
both
fides,
the
coal
is
cleare
;
well may
fins
humble thee,
and
bring
thee on
thy
knees
to
Chrift,
they
(hall
not condemne thee.
2.
For
a
ground
of
hope touching force
who
as
yet
are
without,
and
2.
feeme hopeleffe.
By
the
grace of
God
we
are
that
we
are. Defpaire
of
none
;
where
God
is
purpofed
to
Phew
mercy, he
can
refcue
the prey,
not onely out
of
the Devils jawes,but
even
out
of
his
maw alto,
as Jonah
oat
of
the
belly
of
hell.
Markhere again,that
Paul and
thole
of
the
circumcifion when
they Doe.
walked
in
the
flefh,
were
alike
before God
to
the uncircumcifcd; whence
Without
grace
obferve, that where there
is
no true feare
of
God
no
outward
circum-
",
°°dge,
fiances, or priviledges alone,
others
will commend
us
before him. Gods
commends
us
o.
people
apeopleofSodors
and Gomorrah;
Gods
people when
they obey not,
tc
G'd'o.
their
circumcilonis
madeuncircumcifon. But
how
can it
be truly
Paid,
Rom..,
feeing
that theone
profeffe
the true
God,the other doth not
?
An(
1.
In
objehlion.
deeds
they
deny him.
2.
In
deeds
they let
up
falfe
gods, their
lufts,plea-
o/Anfw.
lures, riches,
&c.
and
they
are
more abominable before
him
when they
T
".'.'6.
prophane
his
outward worfhip. Thus with
us, look
whatfoever
we may
think
of
our felves, yet while we
live in
the
flefh,
we are no
better
then
Turks or Pagans for the prefent. S.
Paul
might have pleaded more then
we,
he
was
brought
up at
the
feet
of
Gamaliel, his life was
unblamable
in
the Law
:
Our hopes
are
better that
are under
thenet, but
our condi-
tion
before
God
is
no
otherwife.
Feare
to continue
as
nature
made thee, even
when it
is
molt
decked Yf.
and adorned.
Hence
we
are
further taught
:
That
we mull
not
be dimmed
to
con- Doti
.
feffe
our
felves finners
with the
firft. So Paul,
chri
same to
ave Inners
cone$ethy
f
f
Celle
as bad
of
whereof
I
am chiefe.
David,
l
will
confeffe
aping
my
felfe :
Efay,
Woe
ti
the worst.
me,
1
am
aman
of
polluted lips
:
lob,
I
abhorre
my
felfe; I
am
oily.
pfa!
:.
s.
The
molt upright
are
molt forward
in
confefïion.
It
is
the
proper
Efay
6.5.
fruit
of
grace truly tafted ;
it
will freely
confe(fe
and give
glory to
Job
era
39.37;
God.
lo111.7.29,
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