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R.
i.,
Ephefians,Csap. t,
care
not to returncinto favourwith our husband, with
God,from
whom
we
are molt difloyally eftranged.
We
muff
hence
be exhorted above
all
things, to
feek
Gods
grace
;
the better
k
is
with
us,
the more
need
we have
to
feek
him
with
reve-
rence
;
for,
look
as
we have
no
leffe
need
of
the
Sun
to
continue with
us,
that
we may have
light
ftill
continued, then we had need
of
it
to
rife
over
us,
that
our
light maybe begun
:
So we want
Gods
gracious pre-
tence,
as
much
to
continue
our comforts, now
we have
them,
as
we did
at
the
firfi
to
begin them.
Now,
if
you
aske
by what
meanes we may
T%
2,
wanes
to
grow
up
in
favour
with God
;
I
anfwer
:
Firft,we
muff
every day fhew vo"71
h
fa-
unto
God, that
well beloved
of
his,
in
whom
he
is
well
pleated,
from
God.
whom favour floweth upon
all his as
the oyntment
trickled down
from
the
head, on the garments
of vlaron.
Secondly
;
We
muff provoke
our hearts earneftly
to
petition for this
; Seek
my
face
;
Lord, I
will
fake
thy
face.
Thirdly
;
We
muffgrow
up in confcience
of
our vilenefîe
to
be
humble
;
God
refs
fieth
theproud, and
.givethgrace
to
the humble
;
that
is,
fheweth favour
:
As the loweft
vallies
are
bleffed
with the
happieft
influence
of
the
heavens
;
fo
here, the contrite humble fpirit,
is
the place
Pfat.,os..
.
Pfal.271
Ifay 57,
Luke
:.
God delighteth to
let
his
grace dwell
in.
Fourthly
;
Wee
mutt
la-
bour
dayly more and more to depart from evill, and purge our hearts
Mats:
from
all
the corruptionswhich
remaine
in
them
;
The pure
in
heart
/ball
(ee
God,
even the
light
of
his countenance,
in
grace and glory.
Look
as
a
cleare
tranfparent thing
,
as
Cryftall,
bath the lightcomming through
it,which cannot
pierce
through
groffer bodies
:
So
in
thofe
hearts
which
are
the
pureft, (hall this
light
of
Gods countenance
diffufe it
fell
molt
abundantly.
Hell
ez.
And peace.]
Obferve
from this,that
he wi(heth them
in
the next
place,
Da£l
Peace;
that
true peace
is
amQftfingular
bleffrng.
The
Apoftle cannot
fpeak
of
it,Phil.4.7. but
he feifeth it forth
with
this commendation,that
it
paff
ëtb
all
underffanding
;
this
is
that goldenbequeath which Chrift
did
leave us,
now ready
to
die
; c.0ty peace
I
give
unto you,
not
as the world
iveth
you,
Iohn
14.22.
That
it
may bethe better conceived, I will
open
three things.
r.
What
it is.
2.
In what kindes
it may be confidered.
Peacedctaibcd.
3.
Whence
the
one and
other
peace
floweth.
It
may thus be
defcribed
;
Peace
is
a
tranquillity or reit
in
themind,
fpringing out
of
Chriftsdeath,
wrought
in
us
by the
Spirit,
through the word
of
God
:
it
is a
quiet,
I
fay,orheavenly tranquillity; for
peace,in thefe fàlutations,
is
oppofed to
feare,
griefe, to
any kinde
of
perturbation, which
breakerh
the
Tweet
content
and
harmony
of
the
minde
;
tïiíy
peace
I
leave with
you,
feare
not,
be
not
troubled
:
It
is
a
fweetconcord,making joy
in
the minde,asthe
concord of well compounded difcords
begetteth
a
molt delightfull
har-
mony,
in
whichthe
care
joyeth
and
triumpheth. Secondly,
It
corn-
meth
from Chrifts
death;
his
chaflifement
was
the chafiifement
of
our
peace,
his
_Pripet our
healing
:
For
as an
imprifoned debtors peace fpring-
eth from fome
fureries fattsfa4
ion, fo here, &c.
Thirdly, I
fay it
is
wrought through the fpirit, G4l.5.22. any
body
may put
an
inftrument
out
of
tune,
but
none can reduce it
to
true
content, but
he
that
hath the
C
skill