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264.
Ephefranr,
Chapuz.
VaR,ti
2.
3.
That
all the
efficacie
of
the Sacrament is'from Faith ,
and end.
eth
in
Faith.
Yje.
1.
It
fignifieth.
2.
It
fealeth.
3.
It
is
an
inflrument applying
;
as
going
into
the pool
of
Bethefda,
it
was
the
mean
of
healing them,
their going
in,
yet
no vertue infufed into
the water, but
a
venue
in the
water
put
forth.
Dollr.
Mark here
further
one
point; How the
people
of
God
efleem
of
the Gentiles,
even
as a
prophane, and
wilde kinde
of
perfons,
there
was
nothing more contemptuous, then
to
be an uncircumcifed bee:
So
that
we learn hence
,
That
the high things
of
the world,
if
not
taken
to the mercie
of
God,
and
to
communion with him, what
are
they
in
the
eyes
of
the godly
e
vile and finfull
:
The
perfon who
is
heir
of
glory, what doth
he think
of
that forlorn
perfon
e
he
is vile
in
his eyes.
How
did
David
reckon
of
the
Philiflim,
but
as
a
doge
Vass.
12.
VERS.
12.
That yewereat that
time without
Chrifi,
and
were aliens
from the
Common-
wealth
of
Ifrael, and
were
(?rangers
from
the Covenant,
of
prom?
fe, and
hid
no hope,
and
were
without
God
in
the world.
Here
he
cometh
to
the things
he
would
have rem: inbred, theirmi-
fery (landing
in five
points
:
Firfl
,
[without
Chrift,] The
Apofile
fpeaketh
not
of
that
they
were
in
Gods
counfell,
or
in
refpcd of
Chrifts redemption,but
in
regard
of
ai uall
Arplication.
Dorf.
Whence
we may fee,
What
is
the
headof
4i
jbirituai!
mifery
;
it
if
To
be
without
this,
to
be
without
Chrifi
klieg
:
This doth
lead
the
dance to
all
the
refl.
chrilt,
hre
Who
fo
hath
Chrift,
with him(hall have
all things
alfo,.
Rom.
8.32.
all
head
oEall°mi-
fery.
the good things
of
God
are
his,
but who wanreth
Chrift
,
he
is in
death, under wrath, poor, neither
having things fpi ituall, nor
true
Son
-like
title
to
things
temporal!,
he
is
without
the
1eatSer.
Now
Divers
a
wars
th-
there
are
two
wayes
of
being without
Chrift
;
1.
the
one,
in regard
one
cbri(t.
of
that
prefeece
of
his in
the
Word
and Sacraments
:
2.
the other, of
dwelling
in us
by
his
Spirit:
He
that
is
in
me,
bringeth
forth fruit,
Joh.i
5.5.
that
is, fo far
as
by the apprehenfion
of
knowledge,
and
fo
far
forth
as
by
putting me on
in
the
Sacrament
:
This mutt
here
be
underilood; t.
By
hearing
of
him,
and
putting him on
in
the
Sacra-
ment
:
2. By
a
perfun7ory and
common work
of
the
Spirit
:
3. By
true
Faith.
Now
thefe every way
were without him, without the
true
belief,
without any
of
thofe more
fuperficiall
works, without fo
much
as
hearing
of
Chrift.
vfe
r
°
Now
this muff be laid
to
heart with
us
,
as
being
a
glaffe
for
us
to
Numbers
Hill
look
in;
1;
in
a
miferable
e
were
in
time pall
as
they
:
but now
we have Chrift
in re-
condition.
gard
of
his
manifeflation,
in
Word
and
Sacraments,and many
in tem-
porary hypocritical!
perfwafions:
But
how few
are not
without
him
in
regard
of
his
dwelling
in
them
a
Now if
we be fuch, it
is
not
onely
a
miferable
condition, but it had beenbetter with
us,
that
we
had
ne-
ver heard of'
him,
as
fometimes it had been with thefe Gentiles.
If
Chrift
were with
us, that
we had
him,
we
fhould
be
fed with
his
Spirit,
we fliould
not give our
(elves
to
fulfill
our lulls
; Who
fo
are
led
f
r