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Epheflans,Chap.
z..
VER.2t.
waketh himJelfe
to
lay
hold
upon God,
Iía. 64.
7.
4.
Take
heed
of
that which
may
quench your
affecaions
to God;
dead
company
,
who
can
neither
fpeake
nor heare the
language
of
Canaan.
5.
Take heed
of
worldly.cares, the common choak-
weeds
of
all
feeds
of grace and
goodnefTe,
inordinate diligence about earthly
mat-
ters,
eating, drinking, building, the world
fhall
bee drowned
in
theft
when Chrift corneal to judgement.
ed
out
of
your
hearts
all fuch
things,
as
like
weed
fpring up and
fmother better
devotions.
Vje
a.
I
For rebuke; the Sonne
of
righteoufneffe
is
gone
back with many
Tenor to
in
their diall, who
are fallen from
their
firft
love,
from that
life
and
backaiders-
power which fometime they
have
had,
fuftained vifible
decayes
of
ancient gifts, felling
their God for bread,and the
unfpeakable
peace
of
a
good confcience for outward
peace and
liberty; thefe may
feare
that
God
will
cut
them downe
as
unprofitable branches, good for
nothing
but combuftible
fuell for
the
fire
of
his
everlafting
wrath.
Door.
Secondly, This doth
give
us
to
underftand
,
that
the
fiate
ofa
belee-
Bclecvers fall
ving
foule,
is
[ash
ea
cannotfinally
fail
or
be
utterly
extintl.
Every
none
not
finally,
in this building
bath
an
increafe
in
regard
of
it felfe, and
in
regard
of
others which
come
to
be
laid
with it,
it
doth not
fhrinke in
and
quite
fall out:
the
Holy Ghoftthe
builder
of
this Temple wanted
not
wit-
dome
to
lay
chef
e
[tones: Yea fuch
mortar
as
is
everlafting,
even
thofe
Roma
gifts
without repentance,
of
Faith
and Love.
And
touching
the
in-
creafe
of
grace
in
the
believing,
hold thefe things.
r.
Firft,
this grace
is
of
a
more excellent property then
that
in
the
An-
gelis fallen,
or
in k.4d.tm
;
Chrift
is
the Head
whence this
iffueth
fpirituaily:
as Adam
was
the Head whence that other grace
being
na-
tural! fhould
together
wich
nature have been conveyed.
It bath
a
high-
er
rife, and
the
name
of
it maketh it
eternal!,
as
being
a
life
not
fhb-
jed
to death,
notonely promife
and afliftance.
2.
Secondly, this cannot
totally
fall
away.
3.
Thirdly,
this
gracehath
his
fwoundings,when
as
yet
life
lyes
in the
heart,
likefire in
a
flint.
4.
Fourthly,fuch grace
as
the
Scripture maketh
us
fall
from,
is
tempo.
rary grace,
as
much
differing
from
true,
as
wild heaths
and
thofe
of
the
garden,as things folid and fuperficiall,
grace
in
efliwation
and
ap-
pearance, grace
in
regard
of
outward
profeffion;
and
thus
a
man
may
bein
Chrift
in
the
fhape
of
Faith, that
is
not inwardly
ingraffed
into
Chrift: It
faileth
not
in
faving
faith.
Or if
they fpeake
of
true
grace,
they onely doe it
by fuppofition, not
affirming any fuch
matter.
Now
let
us
confider out
of
thewords thefethree
citcumftances.
a.
To
what
it
growech,
a Temple.
z.
A
holy
Temple.
3.
In whom, inthe
Lord.
Dell.
Firft
then we
fee
what kind
o
f
building
the beleeving are
, namely
,
a
Beleevers are
Temple
for
Gods
habitation,
a
heck
in wich
it
pleafeth him to
be
a
te-
a
Temple for
Goa.
:y
fidentary,r .cor.3.
r6.
Knowye
aot, that
ye are
the
Temples
of
the
living
G
ode