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5.
VERS.
13.
Doer.
So
fee
mirery,
as
inn
co
look
to
coercie.
Regan.
xco.
z.tt.
Ephejans,Chap.
z.
V
R
R,13,
againft his ftatutes
,
the breach
of
which
is
.punifhable
with
eter-
nall
death.
Fifthly,
when we make him our
chief
and
onely joy,
Rejoycing
alwaies
in
the
Lord,
Phil.
4.4.
For what
we
make
our
chief
joy,
that
is
our
God
;
for
the heart refteth principally
in
that
with which
it
is
moft delighted.
Now
what
is
more equal!, then
that
we
fhould fo-
lace
our
felves
in
him with
joy
unfpeakable
and
glorious, who
hath
delivered
us
from death, and
fin, and fatan
?
In him
who
is a
fountain
.
of
all
good,
and defender
of
us
from
all
evil
,
able
to
maintain
all
the good, both
fpirituall and corporal!,
which
we have, and
give
us
whatfoever
is
wanting.
VERs.'
o
1.
But
now
in
Chrij
lefus
ye
which
were
once
far
off,
are
made
nearby the
blood
of
Chrijl.
'
Now
he
cometh to the
fecond
thing
he
would have them
remem-
ber; that
is,
What
now they were;
and it
may
be
-
brought
in
by
way
of
prevention
:
for,
left
they
fliould
be fwallowed
up
of
forrow,
in
recounting their former condition
,
the
Apoftle
annexeth,
that
their
grief
might be fwcetned, their oppofire condition.
In the words you have to
confider;
a.
The
perfons defcribed
from their being
in
Chrift,
as
members
with the
head.
2. Frortiithat
they had
been
in
time pail.
3.
Thèir
contrary condition,
That
now they were
near.
4.
The
meritorious
caute
of
it,
By
the
blood
of
Chrift.
Firfi then from
the order
of the Apoftle,we
fee
that
we
muff
fo
look
on
our
mi
fery
,
that
we
remember alfe our eflate.by mercie
:
Thefe
two
do
well agree
together
,
the one
corret
s
the
other,
fo
that both
are
wholC,me
;
purging medicines, without reftoratives interlaced,
will
weaken
too much.
Paul
doth not onely
fhew
them
their eftate
of
na-
ture
;
but
it
being
a
bitter Pill,
Both gild it
over, with annexing
their
comfortable condition
in
Chrift. He
had no fooner
faid
to the
Corin-
thians, such
were
force
of
you,
but he.prefently addeth,
But
now
ye are
¡unified,
¿c.
r
Cor. 6.11.
nor
to the
Coloß'ians, You were
dead in
trefbaJfes ;
but,
you
are
quickened,
&c. Colofb2.13. nor to
Titus,
You
were
chits
and
thus,
&
c.
Tit.3.3,4.
but ever bath
as
a
counter- poilon
added unto it
,
the change
made by grace
in
them
fo
miferable.
We
mutt
have one eye caft
downward
on our unworthineffe, and another
upward on
the grace
of
God,
and benefits
by
grace.
The
Apoftle, when he
had caft down himfelf
in
thinking
on his
wretchedneffe, doth
raife up
himfelf through Chrift,
Rom.
7. 24,
25.
And he feldom tclleth any
of
their
mifery,
(which
is
to
be
marked)
but he dòtli likewife annex what they were
by the
mercie
of
God:
For
the Apoftle, who faith
of
himfelf,
He
wad
not
ignorant
of
the
de-
vils
enterprifes;
did
note right well, that the
devil will
labour
to fwal-
low
up
in
borrow,
as
well
as
to
kill
by carnali fecurity. And
look
as
extreme
medicines are
not alonewholfome,
unlefíe
they be
corre6ted
with
contraries;
fo
the
Apoftle,
who
knoweth well how
to
divide
aright,
r