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Ephe
fans, Chap.
2.,
V
E
R
,
21,
mutt be fquared
to
his
modell, fitted
and furnifhed
for
his entertain-
ment. Every man according
to
his
degree
,
loves
to have
his
hòáfe
trimme
and
delightfome.
The
Devi11
himfelfe likes
well
,
when
his
houfeis
empty, fwept
and
garnifhed, Mattb.
12.
44. Empty of
good
thoughts, fwept from
good
exercifes
,
garniflred
with
appearances.
The Lord
in
a
contrary fenfe,
loves
to have
his houfe.
allo empty,
fwept
&
garnifhed,empty
of
pride and vaine-glory,noyfome
lufls, &c.
fweptand cleanled from
allfilthinetfe
of
the
flefh,
and garnifhed with
all
holineffe and
grace; paved with love,
Cant. 3.
r
o.
Doiir.
Secondly, when
he
faith,this
building
is
coupled
together
in
Chrift
Believe,
s
have
Brait con
-
jutsûion with
Chuff.
Eph.3.
17.
Yfe.
ott.
Believers
are
ver
growing.
1.
he
doth
give
us
to underhand
, how
flrait
and
even
a conjunction the
faithfüll
have with Chrifi,
and
one
with another.
Locke
as
in
a houfe,
the
building
all
of
it, mutt be
fitted
to the
foundation
,
and every
part
of
it
fuit one
evithanother;
fo
in
this
building, which
wee
are,
there
mutt bee
a
(trait coupling with
the
foundation
,
and correfpondence
one
with another: Thus
in
the
materiali
Temple,
(
the type
of
us)
the
walls
or
rowes
of
hone that
were
in ir,
they were
fo
fquared,
that
one
piece did
not belly out above
the other, but
as
they write, bring
layd
together,
a
manwould have
thought
them one entire
hone.
So
all
the
other
things were
fo
contrived
,
that
window anfwered
to
window,
dore to dore, chamber to chamber; there was
a
pleafant proportiona-
bleneffe
in
every thing: So mull the multitude
of
beleevers
all
of
them
belayd
on
one foundation,and
all
of
them fo
even,
that they
may
feem
as
one living ftone,and every one anfwering
moll commodioufly
to o-
ther:And
thus it
is
with the faithfull,ifyou confider them with
Chrift,
they are
moll firaitly conjoyned by
Faith: by
Faith
we
put him
on,
and
he
commeth to
dwell
incur
hearts:
And look
as
the
Head and Members,
the
Vine
and Branches,
the Houle
and
Foundation
are
moll
flraitiy
linked:
So
it
is
with
us
beleeving and
Chrift
Jefus.
A
gaine
the
beleeving are fitly coupled one with
another,there
is no
uneven
bunching
out
in
them. love making the multitude
of
them
as
one man,
of
one
mind,
and heart: And
as
all
the
parts
of
a
building
have
a
commodious correfpondency
each
to
other
:
So love maketh
the
Saint%
each
feek
the
good
of
the other,
andbe ferviceable each
to
other.
Remember
and Rudy this
edification.
Growth.] Whence
obferve:
Theft
that
are
true
beleevers,
they grow
up
from
day to
day.Even
as
it
is
in
great
buildings, they are not
at
once
begunne and
pedaled:
So it is,
the whole
and every living (tone
have
their increafe
till
they come to
perfeElion.
r.
I will (hew
and
prove
the
things.
z.
Open the qualities
of
this
growth.
3.
Make
the
ufe.
To
fee
this increafe,you
mu(lknow that there
is
a double confide
-
ration
of
the faithfull.
a.
In regard
of
thewhole number. z.
In regard
of
everyparticular
hone.
The
firh
is
to be
feen in
thefe
materiali buildings,
which by the
ac
-;
ceffe