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R. 19.
Ephelians,
Cliap.z.
ftomes mutt
bettood too.
If
the law
and
their cuftuntc tnccr, to
as
they cannot
be
reconciled,
law
giveth place to cuftome:
fo
mutt wee,
if
the
fathion
of
the world,or
the
lasves
of
men yecld
us
this or
that,
yet
if
they come againft
the
cuftome
of
this city
,
they mutt not
bee
admitted.
This
doth
teach
us
our happinetfe
when we
are
brought to
believe,
and fhould
provoke
us
unto faith.
I
Be
ever,
hap
-
It doth
reach
us,that the godly
are
feta
part from others,
and
mutt
t'
not
leek
to
be priviledged
in
ftate
of
the
world;
we mutt
not
have
to
!
ci,i
4'
of
doe
with
that
fpirituall
Babell,
nor
feek
freedome
to
follow the
lufts
of;
Beria
mnü
this
world:
What
agreement betwixt the citty
whereof
God
is
the
i11OC°°,moni-
Head,whereof
Saints,
j
uft
fpirits, fandified men are
members,andthat
¡ó
v
eh
Br
whereof
the Devill
is
the Head,
evill
Angelis,
fpitits
of
unjuft men
I
and incarnate Devills are
the citizens!
Of
the houfhold
of
God.]Obferve hence,That
allthe
believing
are can- Doff.
r.
jeyned among
themfe
lvesas
members
of
one
family: To be fellow-
I
Beteevers
are
citi-
zens,
is
to
he neare
one
another
;
but
to be
of
one and the felfe-fame
au
atone
fa'
famiy,
is a
more ftraite
bond;
and often
wee are called
the
bon
e o
f
iy.
iÎcats.,
°.
God,
the
hou/hold
of faith:
And
in
the Parable,
God
is
brought
in
as
an
houtholder,
and we
as
one
joynt
houfhold.
The
which confideration
fhould
ferveto
increafe love
;
wee being lee
confined within one family ,
a
common roofe
under
which
wee all
drive
live and
board,
we
mutt bee
all
of
one heart, at peace and unity; and
love anduni-
the God
of
love and peacewillbe with
us.
z Cor.
5
3.11.
`r
Secondly,
it is
to be
marked
that
it
is
faid
,
wee
are
Gods harafbold.
Dour.
z.
Now
this
is a
circumftance
full
of
divine
meditations.
It
is Gods.
fa.
Fir
ft, it
doth teach
us,
how
wee
mutt
live
to him
who
is
the
miiy.
matter
of
us
all, every
one faithfully feeking his
advantage.
Wee
feet
Yft
r
that
all
the houfhold
is
bound
to
give obedience to
the matter
of
it in eoa.
the Lord.
The
Parable
of
the talents doth
reach
that
God
expedeth
this;
he
giveth
us
all works to goe
about,
and
looketh that
we fhould
be faithfttll
in
them,if
we
doe
not,the Lord
will not beare it.
Secondly,
it
doth
teach
us
how reproachfullto God
our
frnnes
are,
2.
that
profefi'eour felves
to be
his:
the
good
behaviour
of
our houfhoids
Sinnes di
ho.
are
his
praife,the folly
and fcapes
committed
in
them
,
they
turne
to
noun
God,
our ignominy
who
are
their governours.
If
any
in
the coantry
live
bean like,it
difcrediteth not the good houfholdcr;
why!
Becaufe hee
hath not taken
them
fo
neare,
as
to
undertake the guidance or
care
of
them;
but
if
one
of
our houtholds,
of
our families,
bee taken
with
theft or
uncleanenefl'e, we
that
are
governours
,
will bee
branded
with
it:
fo
though Atheifts,
and
Papifts, and
Epicures
commit
finne
with
greedinefl'e,
Gods glory and name
heareth
not
ill
from them
in
comparifon;
but when
thofe
that
will praife
them
felves his
houthold,
will
walkecovetoufly,rioroufly, proudly, contentioufly,
unchaftly,
Gods
name
heareth
ill:
there are your G ofpellers, your
forwardpro-
fe!%uts,what commeth
their
Religionto they arc
as
griping,
as
cove
-
tous,as contentious,as proud
as
the
Divel!.
But let
this
teach us, that
if