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VER.
12.
épI
efians,
Chap.;.
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forour towardneffe, but for
his
Naine
lake
according
to that
Ezek.
36.22.
Thus
faith
the Lord God,
I
doe
not
this for your
fakes,
o
houfe
of
Ilrael,
but
far
mine
holy
Name fake.
z.
We fie,
That
in Chrifl
we
may
fecurely
come
into
Gods
prefence:
Doff.
For by nature
we
are fevered
from
theprefence
of
God,
and
if
he ma-
I,,;ÿ
lr
«.é
`
nifeft
himfelfe,
he
is
dread
full
to
us,
that
we cannot endure the fight
of
come
into
him, for
feare and
trembling,
Efay
59.
a.
Tour
iniquities have feparated
Gods
Pre
betweenyou
and
your God:
and
your
flouts
have
hid
his face
from
you
,
that
be
will not heare.
And when
our
frrfl
Parents had
offended
God
they
hid
Gen.
;;
thcmfelves,being
afraid
when they difcerned the tokens
of
him ap-
proaching,for
his
wrath
is to
fanners as
a
confumingftre.Whcnce the Hy-
Dent. 4.
_}
pocrites
fpeak thus
in
Ef
y,
Who
(hall
dwell
with the
confuming
fret'
who
Efay
;
;.t}
may
abide
with
tho
fe
everlafling burnings!
But
in
Chrilt
we approach
boldly
before him, for
he
bath
taken away
our
firmes,
which are the
mountaines
of
reparation;
he
hath procured
Gods
favour,
fo
that the
Angels lung good
will to
men:
Glory to
god
on
high,
Peace on
eartb
;good
Luke
n.
t4ï
will towards men. Love is
his
banner over us,
fo that
we may
come to
Cane.
1.4.
the throne
o
race
with
baldne e: let
us
draw neere
With
full
a
rance
o
Heb.4.
xo.
Faith. When
people had
finned
they
muff offer
a
fi
ne.offering
to
!
LeY
t.g.l,s,
to take away their finne,'andafterwards they might bring their burnt 9'
offering:
fo
it
is
with
us
,
if
we have
by
faith
offered in
our hearts
to
God the
lambe
taking
away our
ftnnes,
We
may there prefent
our
felves
Iohn
i3
before him acceptable
facrrfices,
to be
fan&ified
throughout by that
fpirit
ofhis,
which
as
fire
confumeth our corruptions.
There
be
two
things
that
make boldneffe and
confidence, and
the
two
things
contrary breeds
fcare
and diffidence.
which breed
z.
Affinity
of
Nature.
confidence.
2.
Familiarity andacquaintance.
The
firft
is
the ground
and caufe
of
the latter:
that
we
be bold and
(
is
confident
with God:
fiat
our natures, hearts, and confciences
muff
be
purged
from
all
that
which
is
contrary to
God,
as fin
and
the guilt
of
fin,
and we muff be renewed after
Gods Image
and
Nature: therefore
Heb.
z
o.
22.
Let
us
draw
neere
with
a
true
heart, in
affurance
of
faith,
ha-
ving
our
hearts fprinkled
from
an
mill
eonfcievice,
and
our bodies
walbed
with pare water; firff
there
muff
be
a true heart , purged and
fanfiiy&cd,
partaker
of
Gods
nature andholincle', and
then followes
boldneffe and
affuranceof
faith.
Q
But
what
makes
the
heart true
and like
to
God!
Anfw.
z. It
mug befjrinkled with the
blood
ofChrifl
to
juflification and
pardon
of
finne. 2. Wafhedin
our bodies
with
pure water
of
fanEtificati-
on
of
the fpirit.
Acquaintance
and
familiarity
caufeth boldnefl'e ;
therefore
a
fheep
2;
feares
not
his
fhepheard,
whom yet the
Beare
and Wolfe
fcare;
what
-
foever
is
orange
and unacquainted
is
fearefull.
If
time
acquaint our
felves
with God,and
walke
with
him
as
his friends
we
fhall
have
bold-
neffe
with God;
elfe
he
meets
us as
a Beare
robbed of her whelpes,
and
as a
Lyon
in
fecret places.
Where both theft
are fully wanting,
there
is
no
accefFe
to God,
no
acquaintance nor communion with him,
L
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as