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R.IO.
ephejianr,Chap.t.
z6,
Gods
children
doth
as far
outtlrip the greateft
Princes and Monarchs
in
the world,
in
glory
and
honour,
as
the (late
of
the pooreft bridge
-
begger
is
inferiour
to the
greateft
Potentates
upon
the earth.
Again,
it
doth teach
us, to
whom
we are
to
afcribe
whatfoever
we
1
z:
are
;
we mutt
fang
with the faithful(,
Not
we
our
feIves,
but the Lords
cioriee
cod
hands
have
made
us to
be
his people
, even the
'beep
of
his
paflure, Pfal.
too.
3.
for
fo
the
new creatures
are
fometimes called. Yea, this
let-
And
hill
de-
teth
us
fee, on whom we mutt
depend
for the promoting and
pre-
pond
on
/Inn.
fcrving
of
this creature; for
it
is
his
part to govern
and
preferve, who
doth mightily bring forth;
he
beginneth,he mull
end
:
Shall
God
tra-
vel!, and
not
bring
forth
a
If
we be lumps
of
flefh
unfhapen,
he can
form
and
fafhion
us
fromglory
to
glory
by
his
¡pirit,
a
Cor.3.
t
8.
In
chrifi:]
Here
we
fee
in
whom
it is;
though
all our
falvation
is
23'°a
afcribed
to
God,
yet the perfon
in
and
by
whom we come
to
have
theft
Chrihwe
receive all
things,
is
thrift
lefun.
And
it
doth not
onely note the order
of
work-
good.
ing, but it
noteth who
is,
as it
were, the root
in
whom
all
the
heirs
of
life
are
framed:
yea,
it
noteth
to
us
the
merit
of
Chrift, that
hath pro-
cured this
for
us
with
God,
and
the
eflrcacie
of
Chrift
Jefus,
who
is a
quickning
head,
in
due
order
reviving every
member.
For
firft,
before
we come
to
have this life
of God dwelling
in
us,
I;
the Lord bath after
a
fort wrought
in
Chrift
:
For
as all
of
us
had
life
given
us in Adam
radically,(yea, thofe
that
have not
yet
being)
fo
that
they
(hall defcend
from him by carnali
propagation;
fo
God hath
made
Chrift
a
common flock, from whom
he will
have every one
to
draw
life,
which
is
treafured
in
him, not that carnally they mutt
de-
fcend,but
by
a
fpirituall ingraffing
of
them
into
him.In
him therefore,
as
a
fecond
edam, hath God
created
us
again.
But this
is
not all, for
even in
Chrift
we have
this, not onely
be-
caufe it
is firft
laid
down
in
him
,
but
becaufe he hath deferved we
fliould be
made by
God
new
creatures:
becaufe
God hath
in
Chrift
firft reconciled
us to
himfelf; a
Cor.
5.18.
Chrift
did
give his life
for
the life
of
the world.
Again,
[in
Chri'l]
becaufe he
doth
effedlually apply
this unto us,
3.
and in
our
time
doth
quicken
us
:
He
is
that
quickning
#iris,
the Lord
from heaven,
n
Cor.15.45
So then
this doth teach us,
that God
by
Chrift
hath quickned
us
;
y.%
How greatly
are we
bound to
him
for
it
is
but fpeaking the
word,
Chrift actor-
and
it
is
done,
in
the
firft
creation of
all
things ; here more
is
requi-
ding
;y,
red, the giving
of
his
Son,
fending him
down from heaven,
not
(pa-
ring him
:
Chrift
did
not
fay
[Be Paved,] but indured words,
(tripes,
yea
an
accurfed
death, that
he
might be
a
treafury
of
thofe
things for
us,
and
a
difpenfer
of
them unto
us,
when we
firft
come to have
fpiri.
tuall
being.
unto
good works:
]
Here many things mutt be marked
;
Firft,
How
Dottr. r.
that
the
new
creature, and
new works
go
together; the one cannot be
The
new
crea-
fevered
from the
other. When
once we
come to put
on
the
new man,
,00rrehgarhnew
we
'hall then
finde
that
our actions
(hall
be
reformed;
this
might
be
A
a a
fhe wed
i