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A.
9.
Ephefians,
Chap.z.
But
the Apoftic feemeth to forbid it,
Paying,
Why
rejoyceft thou
in
that thou
haft,
as
ifthou
hadft not received
it
The
Apoftie
doth
take
away this, with this confideration,
as
if
things
were
of
our
fclves
;
but doth not therefore
give
leave
to
re-
joycc
in
thefe things,
if
we know they are
given;
for
he
placeth our
rejoycing
out
of
our
{elves
and
our
gifts.
The
Papifts yeeld
it
unexpedient,not fate without fundry provifo's
diligently obferved:
As, that
it
be of good
things;
that
we know
them
of
God;
that
wee
remember
imperfc
&ions;
that wee go
forward.
Wherefore
the truth being
fo
clear
in
our
own
confciences, we
mutt
learn our duties ; Let our
rejoycing before God
be
onely
in
his
love,
in
Chrift;
glory
in
nothing but
in
the eternall
love
of
God
that
faves
us
:
we
are the Circumcifion,which worfhip
god in(firit,andrejoyce
in
Chrifi
le
fue, and have
no
confidence
in
theflefh,
Phil.
z.3.
Another
point here
to
be
obferved
is
this , That
whatfoever
we
re-
ceive in Cbrifi,
cannot
fiand
in
defert
of
falvation.
The
reafon
is
plain
;
Firft, whatfoever
muff be meritorious in
fal-
vation and righteoufnefhe
,
mull be
given
us in
creation.
The
Cove-
nant
of
the
Law was ftricken
with
4dam
on his perfeverance
in
innocencie,
and
on the
works
of
thofe ftrengths
received
in
innocen-
cie:
If
a
man
could now
fulfill all
the Law
being
in
Chrift,
he
could
not challengerighteoufncffe
in
the Law.
Why,but
the Scripture faith,
Do this
and live ;
True, but
it
meanetk,
of thy
own ftrength.
Secondly, whatfoever
is
receivedin
Chrift,
mull ftand with grace;
for,Grace, Chrift,
Faith,ftand together.
But whatfoever
in us
fhould
deferve,
cannot ftand with
grace;
therefore whatfoever we
are in
Chrift
cannot deferve
:
Faith
is
not
of doing , grace
is
not
of
working.
Thirdly, if
this
which we become
in
Chrift,
fhould
finable
us
to
juftifie and fave
our
fclves, then Chrift
fhould
bring
us
back again
to
the Law
:
But wee arc dead to
the Law
,
Romans
6.
G
Ala.
tianr
2.
Fourthly, if
we
fhould,
by that
we
are in
Chrifl,
deferve
our
fal-
vation, then
Chrift
fhould make
us
our own Saviours
:
If
Chrift
have
deferved it, we have not;
if
we have, he hath not.
Fiftly,it
is
a
contradi
&ion
to fay,Chrift hath
deferved heaven for us,
fo
that
he
maketh
us
deferve it
;
as if it
fbould
be laid, One hath
paid
my
debt for me,
fo
I
will pay it my
felf: One hath
purchafed fuch
a
thing for
me,
but
fo,
that
I
mull:
purchafe it my felt.
But it
may
be
faid,
It
is
no prejudice
that Chrift
fhould
merit
in
xe
:
As
God
is
more
glorious
that
he
doth
many things mediately,
then
if
he fhould
do them
alone,
as
he
giveth
light,
but by
the
Sun.
This
urged and granted,
Chrift
fhould efficiently, we
formaliter,
merit.
What
we come
to
receive
in
Chrift
, is
falvation and glory.
If
Chrift
fhould make us
alto by
grace
to deferve, then he
fhould
make
57
objelt.
Anf.
Do&r.
Nothing of
our own,
though
in
Chrift, merits
falvation.
Afafont.
3.
3.
4
5.
O6jek.
Anfxi+.
Chill} merit-
ed, not that
we fhould
me-
riti
but
be
ac-
cepted.