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VER.
18.
8phefians,
Chap.z.
309
we
fee
him make fore
that
he fpeáketh
,
we
truft
his
word;
as
the
V-
furer beleeveth the
borrower,he
makes
no
doubt
but
a
man will bee
his
words- matter
in
paying tenne pounds while he
bath
a
pawne
of
twenty: this
is
to
give credit to
the pledge,not
to
the perfon. Trolling
on
a
civili mans
word
or bond we doe
feek
them carefully,
and are
glad
when
we
have
gotten them,and
as
we fay, we write upon them,
that
we
fhall
have
fo
much money, at fuch
a
day
,
upon
a
fubftantiall
mans
word or
bond,
given
us. But
God
who promifeth
all
good
things
in
this
life,as
well
as in
the
life
to come,
his feales we
Peek
not
after,which
is
a
figne
of
our great unbeliefe
in
them. While
wee have
meanes
or good likelyhood
of
this
or
that,
we
are
well;
let thefe fayle,
we are
troubled.
Which
fheweth
that
we
reit
not upon
the word
of
God,which
is as
fore
in
the want
of all
things,
as in
abundance.
V
E
R.
18.
Fer
through him
wee
both
bave an
entrance unto
the
VERS.
18.
Father
by one
Spirit.
Now
the argument
followeth,
proving
that
they had
heard
e/lrgufr
the doêtrine
of
Peace effeetually taught: thus it
ttándeth.
Such
as
dare goe
to God the
Fa
, fay
in
prayer,
calling him
4bba
Father
:
Such have
the
NON
of
reconciliation
effectually
taught
them.
But
both
lew
and
Gentile
now goe to the
Father through
Chrill
in
the Spirit.
Therefore
both
of
them
have had publithed
to them the
Gofpell
of
Peace,
Firft
then
in
general!,
we
fee
where
onely
the word
of
Peace
bath
taken
place,
namely
in fuch
as
have
acceffe to God.
This
is an
unfeparable corn-
Doer.
t:
panion
of
receiving
the word
of
Peace powerfully ,
free acceffe
to
nccelfe to
God ever tot-
God
the Father.
It
is
impoffible
that
we thould prefume
to be
fuiters
tower
thepre-
to
God,untill the word
of
reconciliation hath been applyed in
us
;
till
tailingof
the
by preaching we
have been
brought to Faith,
and
fo
to Peace toward
word.
God:
How fhall they call
on
bim in
whom they
have
not beleeved:'
Rom.
1
o.
r
4. Whof
evir
commeth
to
God, muff
be
perfwaded
that
God
is, andthat
he
is
a
rewarder
of
them
that
feek
him.
Iob. 27.;8.
What
hope
bath
the
HypocriteifGod
take
away his
foule?
We
fee
that
if
Princes bee
dif-
pleated wit
h
any ,
the
party dare not come into pretence, much
leffe
Heb.
it.
0.
be
a
Petitioner,untill indignation isthroughly quenched. Look
upon
Abfalon
and
behold,
bee
durft not
preffe
upon
his
Father
,
though
in
part reftored
to
favour: Much
leffe
can any finner
(till the word
of
re-
conciliation
bath
been fowcd
in his
heart, which doth teach
him
that
God
is
pleafed
with him
in
Chrift)
dare
to
enter
the
prefenceof
God.
So that we may hence learne,how
to
know whether the Gofpell
of
ye;
Peace bath foul ntertainment
in us
or not
,
if
we have
recourfe'to
A
note
or
God through
01111ft;
it
is an
evident
argument that
Peace and recon-
right
recel-
ciliation
is
gone before.
ving theword.
Now
in
the
verfe
is
layd downe the doétrine
of
invocation.
In it
prayermiac:
l
we
have;
1.
To
confider
of
the
nature
of
it:
It
is
an
entrance
or
E
e
comming