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Ob/eft.
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Sts
in good
íworks
of nata-
1
mint
Obie5i.
Anf.
Doít'r.
3.
Fruirfuincite
the end
of
the
new
creation.
Yfe.,
Honour God
withthy gra-
ces.
But
it may
be asked,how they
can
be called
good
works,feeing the
belt have their defects and imperfeétions.
Becaufe
they
have
both
a
purified fountain
; To
thepure
all things
are pure,
Tit. 1.15. and becaule they have
a
coverture
in
regard
of
all
their want
;
beth
of
there Faith
doth give:
But without
Faith
it
rs
impoffiblc to
pleafe
God,
Heb.i
1.6.
Faith maketh
the
perfon
accepta-
ble.
The
Lord had
re
fficcl to
t
.4bel,
and
to
his
offering,
but unto Cain and
his
offering
he
had
no reffieci,
Gen.4.
Now
by
Faith
Abel offered
a better
faciifice
then
Cain,
Hebr.xl.4.
It doth
kt
us
fee,
what to think
of
molt
of
our good
deeds
;
they
are
but
fhining vices,
they
are fuch
as (hall
be IndiEìments againft
us,
if
they proceed not from
a
renewed nature.
But
fome
will
fay,
If
it
be
fo, that the belt works of
unregenerate
men are fin;
then
is
feems unlawful'
for
him
to pray
:
if
he
pray not,
it
is
condemnation;
if
he pray,
it
is
no
leffe.
He
is
bound
to pray,
but
not to
fin in
prayer:
the
fecond Com-
mandement injoyneth
to bow
down
and worfhip
God
in
prayer;
and
the third
bindes him ever to
do
it
well
,
left he
pray
in fin
,
and fo
take
Gods
name
in
vain.
What
then
mutt
he
doe
Onely the
grace
of
re-
pentance
can
reconcile there
two
,
and
make him acceptable to God
in all his
works he takes
io
hand.
In
the third place,
we
mull mark
a notable
motive
to
good
narks
,
that
they
are the very end
of
our
creation.
For
look
as
we plant our Orchards
to
this
end,rhat they
may
bring
us
fruit
;
fo
doth the Lord
plant
us,
and this
is
his
purpofe,
that
we may bring him fruit
:
Hence
arc
his
people called,
Trees
of
righteeufneffe, the
planting
of
the Lord, in
whom
he may
be
glorified,
Ifa.
61.3.
Herein
is my
Father
glorified,
that
ye bear
much
fruir,
Joh.
r
5.8.
This
is
the
end,
why
he
bath
fo
dearly bought
us
,
That
we
might
ferve
him
in
holismfie
and
righteoufneffe ;
that
we
might
be
a
peculiar
people,
zealeus
of
goodworks,
Tit.
2.14.
God
doth
not give
to
us
his life,
to
leave
us
idle, or
ill
occupied:
if
God
finde
not
there
with
us,
he
will cut
us
down
as
fuperfluous and unprofi-
table branches,
fit
for nothing,
but
to make
fuell
for
the
fire
of
his
indignation.
This
is
one
of
the
fpeciall ends
of
all
that
ever God
did
for
us
in
the work
of
grace
;
1
Pet.
2.9.
re
are a chafen genera-
tion,
a
royal
Prieflhood, a
holy
nation.
To
what
end
a
That
ye
might
thew
forth
the verities
of
him
that
bath
called
you out
of
clarkneffe
into
his
marvellous
light : that
ye
might
thew
forth by
there graces
Gods
own
vertues, that
ye might refemble
and expreffe
the
graces
of
God
himfelf.
This,
I
fay,
makes much
for Gods
glory,
it
is
the
fpeciall
thing
that
we muff
aim
at
that
we may expreffè
his holineffe, and
fo
glorifie
our
heavenly
Fatter.
Let
your
light
fo
thine
before
men, that
they may
fee
your good works,
and
glorifie
your
Father
which
is
in
heaven,
March.
5.
16.
T!is
teacheth
us
then, that we
honour
and glorifie
God
in,
by,
and
with our graces. Haft thou Faith
a
honour
God
with thy Faith,lhew-
ing the works thereof.
It
is
reafon
that
every one
Mould have the
honour