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V
a
R.
6.
Epheliems,
Chapa.
r.
By
prayer,
Solomon
prayed
for the Spirit,and
he
had it
in
a
larger
vinfw.
meafure then
any
that went before
him:
fo
if
you pray for the Spirit,
Moa<s
co
ob.:
you
have
Gods promife for it, that
he
will
give
the
Holy
Gho/1
unto them
`a`nr
GodsIi,-
that
aske
him
,
and
this
bee
doth
fpeak
by way
of
oppofition,
if
you
Luke
,4.
which are
eviil
can
give
good
things
to
your
children,
how
much more
will
God!
&c.
If
a
man
or
woman will
be
importunate
for grace, and
the
Spirit,
as a
child willbe with
his
Father for bread, then
he
cannot nor
will deny
you.
a. Again,another
means
to
get the Spirir,is
to
be confcionable
and
conftant
in
dependance upon
the miniftery
of
the
Spirit,
and
private
exercifes,
in
hearing the
Word preached,
and
therefore
the Apoftle
fairh,Gal.
3.
3.
Received
ye
the
spirit
by
the
workes
of
the
Law,
or
by
hea.
ring of
faith
preached?
as
if
he fhould
fay,
you may know whether you
have theSpirrc or no
by this,ex
,mine
whether
you
have
gotten
Faith
by
the
preaching
of
the
Word.
Our
Saviour faith,
The
tree
is
knowne
by
the fruit;
if
we get
not faith
in
Chrift,
and bee
joyned
with
hirn, wee
(hall
never get
the
Spirit:therefore
if
you would
get the
Spirit,get
faith:
for faith
is a
knitting and
a
drawing
grace,
it will draw
the
Spirit
in-
to the foule,
and it
will
knit him fart
unto the foule, that
ha
can
never
depart away from it.
3. A
third
meane
is
by
a
Chriftian courfe
of
obedience;
Hee
that
keepeth
my
Commandements,
l
and
my
Father
and Spirit
wiH come
and
John,
.
23.
dwell
with him
;
as
contrariwife when
wee nourifh
filmic,
wee give
a
check
to the good
Spirit
of
God,we
grieve the Spirit, and caufehim
to
depart:
We
obey
the
Spirit
when
wee give him
good
entertainment,
when
you feed him
with holy
and heavemy
thoughts,
and doe
what
he
would
have you
doe.
V
ER
S.
6.
That
the Gentiles fhould
be
fellow
heyres,
and ofthe
fame
Vs x.
6.
body,
and partakers
of
his
promife
in
Chrifl
by
the
Gof
ell.
The
gaalicy
of
the myftery
opened
:
now followeth the
matter,
which bath
two
things
to
be obferved.
r. The
condition, to which the Gentiles
fhould be
brought.
a. The
meanes.
a.
The
condition
in
3
things
;the latter
ftill
the ground
of
the former.
r.
They
fheuld
be
joynt
heyres
with Chrifl.
2.
They
fhould
be
of
thefame
body
with Chrift and his
Church;
for
firft we
mutt become beloved children
in
Chrift the
beloved,
before we
can
be inheritors.
3.
They
fhould
be
partakers
of
the
promifi; for by faith
in
the
Word
of
promife,
we
come to havefellowfhipwith
Chrift.
2.
The
meanes,
by
the
Gof
ell.
The
fumme
is
thus much.
"
This
is
the thing which hath not
been
fo
knowne
heretofore,
this
"I
fay,
that
you Gentiles fometime without hope
of
inheritance
"
fhould
be joynt heyres
of
heaven
,
that you fometime without
"
Chrift,and
aliens
from Ifrael the
body
of
Chrifl,fhould be incor-
"
potato
with Chrift
and his
people, that
you
who
were without
C°
covenants
of
promife, should
by
faith partake
in
the promifes
of
Chrift,