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Epheflans,Chap.
z.
VER,15.
ment perfonally united,
in
whom the
fecond
Perlon worketh,
and
by
which,
as
by
a
conduit,
he
conveyeth our
fpiriruall life.
Doe.
f
So
that
we
fee what
it
wits
which
put
an
end unto there fbadows,
it
was
Chri4
cruel
Ì
Chrill crud
ed
The
exhibition
of
Chrifl
did not do this, nor yet
his
Sal
antiquates
1
LegauRitas.
teaching, for the Ceremonies were applyed
in his blefred
flefh,
and
he
;
taught men to go and obferve
the Law
of
Mofes;
but
when
his
hour
was
come,
that
he fhould
in
that Prieft
-like office
of
offering himfelf
to his
kingdom
,
and
eternall interceffron, then he
nailed all thefe to
his croffe, and abolifhed
them;
at his
death the
vail rent
in
funder,
and
as
Daniel had
fore-told,
he fhould
be
damn,
and abolifh
the
Sacrifice:
For
what
things were
againft uniting
of
his
people,
againft
us
as Bills
witneffing
guilt,
and
Types of Chrift dying,
thefe were
to
end in
death.
If
l
be
lifted
up,
I
will
draw
al
unto
me;
the
hand-
writing
of
Or-
dinances, fhadows,
the body
of
all
is
Chrift.
of
How
we are
to
efteem this liberty, and to reckon
of
it
:
Look
how
this
liberty
as
things bequeathed by death are accounted of;
as
we
will hand for
the
a
rich
tcgacic.,
priviledges
of
our
Towns
:
And
in a
City,
how
a
Charter on
filch and
Poch
confederation
granted
in
Poch
a Kings
dayes, &c.
how
much
more
in
thefe granted by
God, through
the
purchafe
of
the
fufferings
of
Chrift!
We mull
jland
in
the liberty,whereof
chril!
hash
made
Of
free,
Gal.
S.
r. We
fee all
fhadows abolifhcd ;
the
fhadow and the body
Simile.
will not ftand
together.
As Painters,
who
take
an
imperfc l draught
of
a
thing,
when they have now
finifhed
their
mafter-
table,
they
call
away
all
their former rudiments
; fo
God
having now
brought
the
true image
of
heavenly things ,
doth
call
off
thofe
imperfetl
fhadows
which
had formerly been
in
ufe.
Vfe
z:
This letteth
us fee
a
right property
of
Pharifaicall fpirits, that
(land
precifely on every trifling
Ceremony
,
not
caring
for the
great things
of
the Law,
and
the
true fpirituall obedience
of
it, they
will tithe
Mint and
Cummin
precifely , wafh hands and cups , their hearts
be-
ing all foul ,
and full
of
lulls. For look as idle bodies which
will
nor
follow
due
labour, they
will
go with their tales,
as a
Pedler
with
his
pack, from one
to another;
yea
their
fingers
!hall
go,
and
their
feet
(hall
fpeak,
they will occupy themfelves
bufily
in
that
which
is fuper-
fluous
:
So here,when men will
not
exercife themfelves
in
the
power
of
godiinefle,
it
is
firange how
they
will
abound,
and
how
eagerly
they
will
Rand
upon
killings and
cringings, &c. This
may be
Peen
in
the
Church
of
.Rome,
who not knowing the powerfull
ordinances
of
God
, have turned
all
into fach dumb
lhows,
as
are
the
Malre, their
Proceflions,
as
full
of
fuperfluous
obfcrvations,
as
empty
of
fub-
ftance.
Doff.
Fer
to
make
of
twain
one.] Mark firft.,
bow
highly the
Eat
of
the
ct
chc,
church
is to be
rated.
God letteth
all his
own initttutions
birepealed,
to
ha
fee
(
that
this may be procured; it
is
plain from
the Argument
in
the
Text
ac
e.
high
Y
A
P
g
rata
that
the
union
of
the
faithful!
is
highly
rated
with him.
I
r
.
He
that giveth
his
Son to death for
this purpofe;
2.
IIe that
beatethdown
all his
own
ordinances, rather then
this
fhould