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Comfort
to
men
already
converted.
Door.
In
converts
a
great
change
is made
for
good.
Yfe.
Triall
of
con
-
verllon.
Dour.
By
Ch.
ills
blood
we
arc
reconciled.
Exxpoliicion.
left
r>
Anf.
Ephe/lans,
Chap.
2.,
VE
R.
13.
none;
he can pull
Jonah
out
of
the
belly
of
hell
:
Examples hereof the
Scripture bath plenty;
Manaffes,
Paul,the
Thief, Gentiles
;
for,
Greater
is
he
that
is
in
us, then
he
that
is
in
the
world,
t
Joh.4.4.
The
Lord
rules
in the midfi
of
hisenemies,
pfal.
t
t
o. z.
Laftly,
it
doth comfort
us in
the
affured
hope
of
our falvation;
and
may afiure
us,
that
he will
not
fail
us,
till
he hath
brought
us
to
fal-
vatidn , now we are friends,
who
when
we
were enemies,
reconciled us,
and
made
no
near
;
much more
now
being reconciled,
fha/l
we
be
frved
by
his lofe,
Rom.s.to.
Thirdly,
we
fee what
a
change is made
in
thofe
that
are
now
in
Chrifl;
the
cafe
is
altered,their
condition from curfedneffe
isiurned
into blef-
fedneffe;
they from being
aliens
from Gods people, made to
be near
every way to God
in
Chrift
:
As it maketh
a
new creartire
renewed
unto
light,
a
new converfation renewed unto
the
fame;
fo
a
new
con-
dition
lightfome, that is,bleffed
and
profperous,
for this
is
the
fruit
of
converfton. This
may
be amplified, from confideringthe partial.
lars
of
our eftate, out
and in
Chrift;
old
things
are
patted
away,andaff
made new, z
Cor.5.17.
new man,
a
new condition.
For the new
ci
eature you have heard
of;
the new
converfation
is
plain,
if
you have learned
Chrift
:
I
live
by
the
Faith
of
the
Son
of
God, who
bath given himfelffor
me,
Gal.2.2o.
So
for their
c
tate,
full
of
all
bleffedneffe.
God dwellerh with
Chrift;
we therefore
being
in
him
,
muff needs
have communion
with the Father Ind
Spirit.
Again,
Chrift
is
the
head
of
his
members;
we muff therefore
needs
be
near
to
thofe that
arc
in
affinity
with
Chrift,
as in a marriage
conjuntlion.
So that
hence we may judge
of
our
being
in
Chrift,
even
by
that
we finde
in
him
:
Look whatfoever
you have been,
if
you once
come
into
Chrift,
you
will be altered ; fo
that who
fo walk
in
daikoeffé,
in
ftrife, envying, coveting,involuptuoufnefl'e,
all
which
are enmity
with
God, they
are
not come
near
to Chrift:
For
they
that are
Chrs,
have
crucified the flefb,
with
the lulls
thereof Gal.
s.a4.
By
the
blood
of
Chrifl:
]
This
is
the laft thing to
be
marked,
What
it is,
by
which-
we come to be
reconciled
to God
;
it
is
the
blood
of
Chrift.
But
before we come
to
confider
of
it,
it is
fit
to anfwer fome
Que-
ftions,
which
will help
us
to
more fruitfull untlerftanding.
Firft, what
is
to be underftoodby the blood
of
Chrift
e
I
anfwer,
his
bodily death, or bloodfhed, with the
curie;
for
it
is
a
Synecdoèhe.
By
[Blood]
is
meant
a
bloody
death
;
by bloody
death ,
a
death
on
the
crofl'e
;
by the death
of
the croffe
,
a
turfed
death.
Though Chrifts
interceffion
hath
his
place
in
appealing
God,
and
other
aCtions
;
yet
this death
is
chiefly
named,
becauCe
the
force
that
other things
have to
pacifie
God,
is
derived from
this
fa-
crifice.
Secondly, it
may be asked
,
Why
the Scripture
every where
na-
meth
blood.
t.
To
thew
in
it
an accomplifhment
of
Types.
2.
Becaufe