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VER.
at.
phefians,
Chap,zo
3I
poote
foule was
chainedup inchem,ufurping and triumphingover me:
but now though I
fee
fome
fcarres
of
them,
yet the Law
and
tyranny
of
them
is
ceafed, and my foule much freed,
I
thanke
God
it
is
fome-
what better ftablifhed
with grace
:
Bleffed are
thefe.
Secondly,
it
loth
teach
its,
whir
we mull
endeavour
to,
increafe
of
pre z.
holineffe;
Be ye
holy,
for,
your heavenly
Father
is
holy:
if
thole that
did
Follow after
beare any thing
belonging to the
materials
Temple;
were
to
be
holy;
;
`,e
rs.
much more
mutt
we
who
are
the Temples themfelves.
Thirdly
,
it doth
convince
many
to
have no
conjanêtion with
yf
Chrift,
forthey are the devil's Chappell
,
rather then Gods temple:
Many are the
they are
a
cage
of
uncleanneffe;
What
dwelleth
in
them,
but covetouf-
not
God
ye,
neffe,envying,ftrife, pride?Can thefe
filthineffes
have aboad
in
a
rem-
pie;
pie
of
Gode
Many
mock
at holineffe, at carefull refraining
their riot,
their fwaggering, their
loofeneffe; can thefe
be
in
Chrift
,
in
whom,
whofoever
is
builded
by Faith, muttgrow to
bee a
holy temple
of
the
Lorde
No
furely;for
what
Communion can there
be
twixt
light and dark.
4Cor.6.
r6.
neffee
Looke
as in
the 8.
of
Ezech.the
Lord
fpake
of
the type:
So
now
it
may be fpoken
of
living fpirituall houles
of God:
as
that
had thefe
two abominations
, the pictures of'
every creeping
thing,
which
though they
were
to
be pulled downe,
yet there
were
the Elders
offe-
ring incenfe before them: So it
is
with many that outwardly will bee
Chriftians and holy temples;
in
themare
all
unclean
pictures ,
their
thoughts
and imaginations
which
are
the
pi&ores and
portraytures
of
their mind, what
are
they of the
glory,
loft, profit
of
this world
:
And
whereas
by mortification,they
fhould
root
thefe
out,
it is
fare
other
-
wife,
for they
applaud
them,
and
after
a
fort
facrifice
to
them
,
taking
up
their
happineffe and
contentment
in
them
, thefe are Idols
tem-
ples.
In
the
Lord.] The
Taft
thing
here
to be
obferved is;That
it
is
the vertue
Doá.
of
Chilt
of
God
our
Lord,which
doth
build
up
and
increafe the number
of
beleevers.1
By the power
niif(faith
Chrifk)
build
my
Church*
is
net
the ftrength
of
men.Look
as
ha
a
orr
ws
It was
in
the type
Zach.4.6.
neither
by
an
army
nor
firength,
but
by
my
srowoio.
(pirit,faith
the
Lord
of
hafts:
Co
in
the truth,neither
can
it
be
other,tfinen
Math.
n4.
ìy.
will open
their
eyes
to
fee
the
enemies
which oppofe it;
notSanballat
and
Tobiah,
Neh.z.
ro.
not
flefh
and
blood,but
fpirituali wickedneffes.
And thisit
is,
that bath
made
the
Church
Rill
goe forward, notwith-
ftanding herefies, perfecations,
all fcándals
of
iife,all
the
gates
of
hell,
becaufe
God hath
been He
whole
vertue and ftrength undertaketh
the
building
of
this
fpirituall
temple.
To
teach us,
whither
we
mutt looke, even
to God,
becaufe we con
-
P is
curre and confpire
with God
as
fubordinate unto
him in
the worke of
k°°for
converfion and edification
of
his
elect.
God
indeed maketh us
Cowor-
ring
kers
with him, not
that
we adde unto
the
power
of
God,
but that wee
ally.
obediently apply
our
[elves
unto the working
of
God;
Wee
are mighty
i.Cor.to.
4.
through God:
and energeticall
, able
to beget
children
in
Chrift
Jefus
,yj,reìc7"4,7"
through theGofpell.
1.
Cor.q
.15
.Not
as
of
our
f
lves,but
our
fufficien-
ey
is
of
God; who
alfo
bath
made us
able
c.
iinitiers
of
the New Teffamern,
s.Cor._