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V
E
R.
i6.
Ephefinnr,
C'hap.i.
More remote,
himfelf
crucified.
4. The
caufe
More
immediate, the
abolifhing
of
h
tred in
himfelf.
The
word [reconcile] with the third circumftance [to God,]
doth
teach
us
two
things ; the one included, namely,
That
there
is
a
diffe-
Dour. r.
rence,
or
enmity by nature twixt
God
and us: M:diarion
is
not
of
alyn
w`
arc atcnmity
thofe
that
are
one, but
of
thofe that
are
at odds,
that
are
two;
fo
infer-
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with God.
ring
free, fo
in
redeeming,
thele
phrafes
import
we are bond
-fives
and captives
;
and this
is
that
the.
Scripture openeth,
that
our
fins
do
make
a
wall
of
feparation, they do
make
God
an
enemy to
us,
Ions
of
era.
his
wrath
:
Our
wi
fdam
u
enmity
again;
God,
Rom.
8.
7. averfc, and
a'
repugnant to
the
will
of
God
;
our.mineles fee
upon
evil
works,
Col.
r.
s
r. We
are
all
by
nature enemy.
like
affefted to
God
and his
people.
The judgement
of
every man naturally counteth
the things
of
God
foolifb-
neffe,
r
Cor.
z.
14. In
his affections he
doth
not favour them
;
he
counteth
his
Commandements
a
yoke
intolerable,
and
maketh
a
tufh
at
fingiere
obedience.
For the
Saints,
the righteous
is
abominatiält
to
the
wicked,
Prov.z9.z7. Were
not the
Jews
a
mock
in
the
mouth
of
the
heathen
a
did they not reproach them for their
Circumcifion!
Gala-
tians
4. 29. v4i7
the amity
of
the world
is
enmity
with
G
0 D,
James
4.4.
Let
us
hereby
fee
our felves, we
are
altogether by nature thus,
We
have
a
Law
in
our
flefb,
rebelling
againfi the Law
of
ow minds,
not
in-
during the fpirituall obedience
of
Gods
Law,
Rom.
7.23.
What
is
all our love
of
this world
e
Is
it
not enmity
againft God
e
If
a
wo-
man cared
not
for
her
own husband, but were bent to the
imbraceof
other
men, were
fhe
not enemy
-like affedìed
to
him
a
So we
to
God.
What
is
enmity,
if
this be
not
e
,Nor to
care
for
him and
his
wayes,
to
incline and
look another way.
For the Saints,they
are
our
enemies
as
we think
, and
they
are hatefull
of
all
other to
us.
Our
fpirituall
Phrenfie liketh
not them
of
all
others,
whole
prefence Both binde
us
in
fome
fort.
We
muff
labour to
be changed,
feeking
to
God, to
give us
another
minde
:
Who
can indure
to
hear thefe terms
,
Thou
art
an
enemy,
a
hater
of
God
e
Yet who laboureth to be
free
from the thing, praying
to God
to
purge
forth the
fecret
hatred,
which
maketh him he cannot
afTent
to,
and
afteEf
that
which
is
good
e
Could
an
honeft woman
finde
a
heart ftrange
toward
her husband, would
fhe
not be
afham
<d
of
it,
labour to the contrary
e
Doft
thou finde
a
heart averfe, not
af-
feQed
toward thy God
e
O
wilt thou not cry,
Who
`ball
deliver
me
from
this
body
of
death
?
Rom.7.24.
Seek
to God to
put enmity againft
the
feed
of the Serpent
,
and
to
cireumeife
thy
heart,
making
thee love
him,
Deut.
3o.
6.
Who
ever
hardened
hie
heart againft
God,
and pro
-
fered
?
Job
9.4.
Secondly, we
fee
here, That
there
is
a
reconciliation wrought betwixt
to and
God. z
Cor.
5.
59.
God was
in
Chrift,
reconciling
the world unto
himfelf. And on
the entrance
of
Chrift
you
fée,
that
good will is fling
D
3.
to
Yfe
r:
Noceand be--
wail thy natu-
call
condition.
fe
=.
i
o
become
Gods friend,
become
a
new
creature.
Dodu,
s.
In
Chrift is
re-,
conciliation
made.
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