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Epheflans,Chap.
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VER,16.
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Reconcitiati-
on
with God,
in
what.
Vf,
I.
Make
lure
of
loch
retort
cilement.
Rom.
s.3
t.
7e
2.
Renew
it
hill
after every
breach.
Doft.3.
'
To
circa
be
to
coa
rut-
get into
Cbrift.
to the
Eons
of
men,
Luc.
2.14. We
by
nature
are
full
of
pollution,
which the
eyes
of
Gods
holineffe
cannot behold; but
in
Chrifl,
who
is
the
well-
beloved,
in
whom he
is
well.
pleated, Match. 3. 17.
he
cometh
to be
well
-
pleafed with
us,
to bear
us
great good will,
and to be
de-
lighted
in us.
This the
Lord promifed,
Ifa.65.
i
8.
i
willmake
Imp-
ly?: a
refacing, and
her
peoplea
jay; which
fheweth nothing
elfe,
but
that
Gods
favour, his
pleafure and
goodwill
fhould be
toward
every
member
of
his
Church
on the face
of
the earth
;
yea in ifa.
62.4.
he
promifeth, that the Church
in
the
New
Teftament
fhall
be
called his
Chepht7tibah ,
for
the Lord
fhould
delight
in
her.
But
to
fee
the
hea-
venly meaning
of
this
more
brightly, we
are to
know, that
as hatred
or difpleafure are
not properly
in
God
as
affeétions,
but therefore
gi-
ven
to
him,
becaufe
hefhunneth
a
thing,
and punifheth
it, which
men
do when
they
hate;
or
are difpleafed
with
any thing
:
Even fo, recon-
ciliation
is-
attributed to
God,
becaufe he
worketh the
fame which
man
cloth
, bearing
good
-will,
and
being kindely
and
favourably
affeûed.
Now
if
one
fhould ask, in
what this ftandeth
;
I anfwer,
r.
In the
removall
of
all
that which
was hateful].
z.
In
that
the love
of
God
is
procured.
3. In
that the
fruits
of
his love are
communicated
:
By
e
vlafes
was
the Law,
but
grace and
truth
came
by lefecs
thrift,
John
I.
17.
It
reacheth
us,
that
we labour to know our
felves
reconciled
to
God
in
Chrift,
and
for
aflurance
of
it by the
Spirit
of
God. To
ftir
p
us up
to
this,
confider;
Is
God our enemy
e
Who
then
can
be
our
friend
e
As
the Apoftle faith
on
the
contrary,
If
God
be
with us,
who
can
be
againji
as ?
So
if
he
be againft-us,
who
can be
for use
In his
favour
is
life, his
wrath
and
anger
is
more bitter then death
;
if
all the
world
be
not worth
one fmile
of
his
countenance, who
for
all
the
world would indure the frowns of
his
facer
AhaJhuerefhwas
angry with
Haman,
Hansen
face was
prefently covered,
darkneffe and blackneffe
belt befitted him, when now the
King was angry with
him;
Was
it
thus with him
,
when but
man
frowned r
Then
well may they take
their
leave
of
all outward comforts
,
that
bland
under
the wrath of
God.
If
the
difpleafure
of
a
King be
death
,
how many deaths
muff
Gods
difpleafure
be, whofe wrath
is
everlafting,
and
burns to
hell
and deftruétion r
Have we therefore broken our peace
with
God,
loft his
favour
e
What
is
to be done
e
Take
a
courfe
feek and
fue
unto
to live
a
g
ain
,
him
in,
Chrift,
whom
he
hath
fet
forth
to be
a
reconciliation for
us,
through
faith in
his
blood
;
and
that
God
,
who chargeth
us
to
for-
get
all
quarrells and
wrongs,
when
once our
brethren
call
for
peace,
he will
himfelf
make
good that which
he
bath promifed,
Paying,
Return unto
mc, and
I
will
return
unto
you, faith
the
Lord,
Ze-
chariah
r.3.
Thirdly
,
we
fee
hence
in
what order we come to
be reconciled
to
God,
We
mull
get
fellowfhip
with Chrifl,
we
muff
be
incorporated in
i
him,