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V6R.20.
Epheflans,
Chap.2.
Corner-
ft.me.,one
matter expreffed
by divers
termes.
Now
then
here are
two
things
to
be marked.
1.
The building
of
the Ephefians. z.
The
thing
on
which
they
are built.
The
thing
is
laid
downe,
n. By
a
circumftance; a. In
exprefte
words:
as
if
he
fhould fay; thus
you come to be from what time the
eff
&uall
preaching
ofthe
Gofpell
did
bring you
to
faith,
did
lay you
and
build you
on
Chrift,
the onely foundation
,
which
the
Apoftles
and
Prophets
preaching and writing
doth
lay,
vi7
Chril;
for
Chrift
alone
is
the
Corner
-
hone
or foundation, there
can bee no
o-
ther layd
,
Chrift
only being he who doth beare
up all
the building,
which
isa property
of
every foundation.
First, then the
figurative
fpeech, that the beleeving are
Paid
to
bee
Doff.
r:
built,
it
doth give
us
to
confider
of
that
property of
faith
which doth
i
an
ngsorre
make
us to
leant
on
ChriIt,
as
the building leaneth
on
the foundation;'
lying on
it
is
called
therefore
leaning
or relying our
felves
on
God
,
a
flaying
thrift.
on
God,
Ifay.
5.1o: atrulingtnGod, Illy. 26.3. Pràv.3.5.
Trail
in
the
Lord with
all
thine heart, and leant
not
unte thy
owne
wifdome:
Commit thy
way to
the Lord:
Roll
thy
Pelf
and
all
thy affayres
upon
him:this
is
it
which
doth
bring
us
to
bee
of
Gods
houfhold
;
therefore
called
a
houf"hold
of
faith;
Whofe
howl
you
are,
if
yet
hold
fall
your
confidence,
Heb.
3.6.
Our
faith
muff
not be
a
fwimming
conceit,
but
an aftu-
ranee, making
us
flay on our
God.
Secondly obferve, that the
Church
is
built on
Chtift;
On
this
rock Doig;
i;
will!
build
my
Church ;
which dot
?1
let us fee
the
{table
condition of
onchri;abuth
every beleeving
foule:
the
firmeneffe
of
the houle
is
according
to the
onchrilt.
y
;
g
Matb.tó.
tg.
furenefte
of
the
foundation: and
therefore
fuch
things
as
are reared
on
lands, they
ftand
not,
but
the houle built
upon
the rock, that
is
im-
moveable,and therefore our
Saviour hence
teacheth how impregna-
ble
his
Church
is,
becaufe
it
is
built on himfclfe: Hell
fball not
prevaile
againfl
it:
They
that trufl
in the
Lord
[hall
be
as mount
Zion
which cannot
bee
moved,
but
remaineth for
ever, Pfalm. 125.
r.
This
is
it wee
find
in
our
felves
for the waves would
difperfe
us
afunder,
and
formes
would overwhelms
us
,
but that this foundation doth
break
them,
and beare
us
up.
Perfecution
,
Herefies,
flagitious ex-
amples,
Crones,
Terrours within
,
Evills
without,
all thefe
would
overcome
us.
!fay.
54.17. v1U
the
weapons
that
are
made
againfl
thee,
fball
notpro/her.
To
let
us
fee,
that our
landing
is
fare:
Looke
as
Paulfaid,
2. Cor.4.
p
r:
8, 9.
We
are
afftitled
on
every fide, yet
are
wee
not
in
difireffe;
in poverty,
Standing
of
but not
overcome: perfeeuted,
but not
forfaken: call
down,
but
wee
peri
fh
uheittians
is
not :
and as
David
faith,
Pfal.
73. z6.
When
heart
and
fie'
fayleth,
yet
God
is
the
firengeh of
mine
heart,
and
my
portion
for
ever
:
So
is
it with
us, we find it
by experience , we may be fhaken,
but
wee have
too
good
a
ground-worke
to
fall
:
fhaking houfes
fand furef,
they
fay.
Secondly, it
cloth
teach
us,
that
there
is
no
lability
in
the wicked,
/j
2.
they
are
without
a
foundation
;
the wicked
is
ai
the duff,
cha
ffe,Rabble:
Wicked
men
And therefore
all
the greatthings
of
the world
are extinél
as
if
they
i
an
"a.
had