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2.
3.
Dar.
Beleeversare
fellow
-citi-
zens.
Heb.ta.
as.
Heb.tz.
c
Phil.
;.
zo.
Rom.ç. s.
Yfe
r.
Seek one
an-
thers good.
2.
Conformto
the
orders
of
our city.
Epheftan.c,Chapoz.
V
e
R. 19.
2.
This doth
Rand
with
r
Pet.
1.
r
.
becaufe
they
fpeak
not of
one and the fame matter:
For
they
are
faid
to
be ftrangers
in
regard
of
any during
city
here,
thefe are
faid
to
be ftrangers in
regard
oftheir
city not
made with hands,
which
they live in, and have right to,even
the city
above.
Now
3.
the often rehearfall
of
this
doth
warne
us
of
our dull,
neffe,
for
eaten
bread
is
foone
forgotten;
deliverances, though
great,
are but a
nine dayes
wonder.
Againe,it
loth
fprinkle a fweetneffe
upon the heart, the
fecure
re-
membrance
ofa
miferyefcaped. Men willtell
with
delight now
rich,
howpoore they
came
hither or thither, how little they
begun with,
how
friendleffe.
The
love
of
God which
maketh
us
bold
to
got
to
God,
is
fhed in
our hearts.
To
love.
Chrift
which wrought their enfranchifement that
they
are
brought to that
neareconjunétion
with
God, which
a family bath
with
an
houfhold or
matter of
it.
Secondly,
he affirmeth
that now they
were fellow- citLens
with
the
Saints; it
doth teach
,
how
they
believing have communion
together
as
thole that
live
in
one
city;
They
that
believe are
come to
be
of
one
city
with all the Saints.
Heb.
la.
22.
We
are
come
unto the
mount
Sion, and
to.the
city
ofthe
living
God
,
the
celefiiall lerufalem
and
to
the
company
of
innumerable
vtngels.
Where
two
things
are layd
downer
r: That
when we are
brought
tothe faith, we come
to have
Communion with
all
the
Saints,
that is,be
fellow
-
citizens
in one
city,
we
live with them.
a.
How
this
Çcmmunion
ftandeth
with the
Saints
which
are here
below.
Firft,
what
it
is
Anjw.
A
ftate
of
glory by
which
God commethto
dwell
in
us,in
which
threleet
crea-
turesdwell
as in
a
commodious; rich,
defenced city
:
For
this
city
muff be fo confidered ,
as
to
receive in it
God
and all Saints;
it
is
therefore
faid
the
city,
or the Tabernacle
of
God,
Pfal.
¡34.
,.
A-
gaine, it
is
faid that
Abraham fought
a
city,
Heb. r
I.
And
nonefháU
enterinto
the city, but
thoje
who
are
written iv
the
bathe
of
the
Lambe,
Revel.
2
r.
27. A
city
is
confidered
two
wayes
:
r.
For
a
focietyof
perfons;
2.
A
place.
The
perfons,
God,Chrift,
Angels, men delft,
dead or
living.
But
how come
we
to
converfe with them
in
lcea.
vend
vinrw.
In
regard
of
faith,
hope,
and defire. Faith
is
the
evi-
dence
ofthings
not
feen:
Hope
isthe
eye:
our conver/atiois is
in
heaven,
whence
we look
for
the Saviour.
I
defire to
bee
di
ffolvedand
to
bee
with
Chrifi.
Phil.
1.23.
Love;
r.
Pet.
r.
r.
Whom,
though
yeehave
not
feen, yet
you
love,
and rejoyce
under the
hope
of
the glory
cf
God.
Wee
pray
for their
accomplifhment with
ours,
come
Lord
lefas,
come
quickly.
It doth teach
us
that
we are
bound,
being fellow
-
citizens, to
Peek
the good
of
each other: As every one made
free
of
any
corporation,
is
fworne
to the common good
of
it.
Itdoth
teach
us
,
that
we mutt
live according
to the
cuftomes
of
that city, whereof
wee are free
denifons: wee fee in
cities, their
cu-
ftomes
i