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Epheflans,Chap.
z,
V
ER.>IZ.
out the
means
of
falvation ; and
that
he
doth fo, not
giving them
his
Word,
much
leffe
giving
his
Son
to dye
for
them, or
willing
their falvation
:
And moreover, that the Gentiles
had
not the Cove-
nant,
the Tables, the Doó'rine
of
it, or
confederacie
in
ir, it
was
the
Prerogative
of
Ifrael.
z.
Secondly,
if
the pofterity
of
Abraham
(in regard
of
the
flefh) were
fecluded
,
how
can
we dream
that
the
Gentiles fhould be
admitted!
But
Ífiaelites,
Madianites, Edomites were excluded.
No
outward
thing can ground our hope.
Without hope.]
Obferve
what
is
a
great mifiry,even
this,
to
be without
hope.
The
Gentiles were without the thing hoped
for
,
without
any
expetltation
of
it, utterly hopeleffe:
Now
this
is a
pitifull condition,
when
we are
without hope for hereafter.
Hope
is
the
anchor
of
thefoal,
Heb.6.19.
So
that
as a fhip
on
the
main fea,toffed and hoifted
up and
down,
in
continual! danger
of
fhipwrack; fo
is
the
foul
without
hope.
Again,
it
is
the
fpur
of
all diligent endeavour;
He
that
hashthis
hope,
purged, himfelf
i
Joh.3.3.
Again,
it
is
the ground
of
all
Joy
and peace,
and
but for hope the heart would
burrf.
Their
heads were uncovered,
fo
that
every wound was deadly to
them;
The helmet
of
(alvatioa
is
hope,
Ephef.
6.17.
Now
then we
muff
examine our felves, for fuch were
we;
which
muff
be remembred
:
What
was
then our effate, when
our
fouls wa-
ved up and
down without
an
anchor;
when we
in evils
had
no
hope
of
particular iffue,or
of
that
generali
redemption; when we
were com-
fortleffe, and
without
any prick
to
incite
us
e
Again, we
muff
look
whether
we have
hope, for
elfe
we
are
mife-
table:
The
hypocrites
hope
(hall
'trig',
Job
8.13.
He may boaft that
he
looketh
for life,
but
his
hope
is
tryed
in
the
day
of
adveruty;
lab
27.8.
What
hope
bath
the hypocrite,
when
he
bath
heaped
up
riches,
if
god
take
away his
foul
?
Every
man may
fwim, while
he is
held up
bythe
chin.
No
unbeliever can have
hope,
for this
loth
as a hand
-maid follow
faith
:
After the
meafure of
belief,
is
hope proportioned ;
c fiy
fiefb
cloth
refl
in
hope,
Pfal.
16.9.
If
thou
kill
me ,
yet
will
I
hope
in
thee,
Job
r
r
Without
god.]
Three
wayes
,a
man may be
Paid
to be
with -.
out
God:
a. By
profane Atheifme.
z.
By
falfe
Worfhip.
3. By want
of
fpirituall
Wor[hip.
For
a
man may
be
Paid
in
roue
fenfe
to have
God,
that bath
an ac-
knowledgement
of
a divine
power
:
Again,
a
man may be
faid
to
have
God
, and the true
God outwardly
,
who doth
make outward
profeflion
and
worfhip,
fuck
as
is
taught
of
God
:
And man cometh
truly
to
have
God,
when
he
knoweth
him
in
Chriff,
when
he loveth
him, fcareth
him,
trufteth
in
him.
Now
be fpeáketh here
of
the
Ephefians,
that both outwardly
and
inwardly,
in
regard
of
outward
and inward worship
,
were
without God
;
for otherwife they
had
confcience
Doa:
A
mifery,to
be
withouthope.
z.
TLxe
wayes
one
is
without
Gud.
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