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Vie
.
9.
8phefans,
Chap.3.
371
To
ftirre
us
up alwayes
to be fecking, for here
is
alwayes
fome
thing
new: no new
thingunderthe
Sunne.
We
are never
weary
of
looking
ongoodly rich things;
the
Angelis
doe
pry
into thefe things.
nme9xúT4ry
Here
learn
what
we mutt
feek
,
if
we will be rich ; fpirituall trea-
rip
`'
which
neither moth
nor canker can corrupt
;
enduring fubftance;
3'
an
immortals inheritance provided for
us in
heaven.
V
E
A
S.
9.
And
to
bring
to
light
to
all
men
what
ie
the
fellowlhip
of
V
E R
S.
g.
ofehemyfitry,which from
the beginning
of
the world
bath
been
hid
in
God, who
created all things
by
lefm Chrift.
Now
he
doth
amplify it from
the effea which
it had
in
the world,
the
inlightening
of
men
in
the fellowthip
of
the myftery.Obferve then,
What the
Minifters6.
Minifiery
re,they
arethe light
ofthe
World,Ph.a.
Doti.
15 .they
are bid
to
shine
6e
lights
inthe
world,the fame
word
there
ufed
as
htinig
°"
and
Minigery
'I'e
is
in
the Creation.For you muffconecive that without the
miniffery
of
i;gi
of
[?
the
Word
the world
is in
darkneffe;
re
were
once
darknrye,
bat
now
are
W.Ltdl
light
in the Lord;
they
were once
ignorant
of
their
estate
not
knowing
iohn
is.
;f.
what they did. He that walketh
in darkneffe
wotteth not whither he
goeth,
they know
not their
finfull
courfes, much
leffe
the
way
of
fai-
vation.
Now
when God putteth
his
Word
in
the mouth
of
his Mini-
tier, then
he
doth
as
it were
fet up
a
candle in
a
darke
place:
and when
Paul was
fent, he did
goeto
this
purpose
to bring them
from
darkneffe
to light.
But
yet for right conceiving
what hce doth,
you mutt know
that Chrift
is
light,thatthe
believers are
lights,
the
Miniffers lights:
the
Sunne,
Moone,
and ftarres,
they can but help him that bringeth
eyes, this light giveth
eyes. Some mens
light
is
like
to theeves
Ian
-
thornes
,
that
burne inward and thine,
though the world
bee blind,
like
candles fpending
themfelves.
This
rebuketh men
that have
no thine.
ïfi
r:
This
mutt teach men
to
affeét
plainnes, fluttering
like a nurfe
to
the
a.
underftanding
of
the
Pimple.
i
Cor.
3.
I.
It
teacheth how we thould
flock
about it,
as
the
Jewes are faid
of
3.
Iohns
miniftery;He
was
a
candle
and
ye rejoyced
in his
light for
a
fea-
fon.
This cbeckeththe
praétife
of
fuckas
affe&
to
deliver things
in
ob-
4.
fcurity.
wind
to
bring
to
light,]
inwardand
outward,
make
them
fee per-
formed
in effect
that the
Gentiles
with the
Jewes have one
Faith,
one
Lord,
one
Hope
,
which from the
beginning was hid in
God,
a
thing
which God kept
as
counfell,
which hee
within himfelfe
purpo-
fed:
Neither
must wee think much
that the
Gentile
is
brought
to
this
eftate by
Chritt;
for
God
is
the Creatour
of
the
one
as
well
as
of
the
other,
and it
is
the fitteft difpofition
,
that
he
who
created
both by
Chrift,
thould
bring them
both
by Chriff
to
one common falvation.
Rom.3.
29.
and
r
o.
t3.
One Lordofall,no
difference.
z. By
Chrift, to
thew the correfpondency and harmony
of
the di
-.
vine difpofition in faving us
by Chrift.
3.
To
take
ut
by
the
hand
+in
believing,
therefore the power
of
God
in creating is fuffixed.
K
a
4.
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