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VER:
lz.
éphefanr,
Chap.;.
;83
them
a
little from
their
fleep,
becommeth
defperate trembling.
In the fecond placewe
muff
reckon
of
this benefit,
as
no fmall
trey
fure:Ifonemay
but
have recourfe
to
the
chamber
of
Prefence,
it is
no
fmall
tiikter,
but
rG'goe
into rh
Holy
of
Holies, to convetfe
and
commune
with
God,
prefent
our
(elves
before him,
Who
can
rate
filch
a
prerogative
fufficiently
t
W
hen
theQueenof
Shiba
came from far
to
Solomons
Court
and beheld
the
beauty
arid
dory
of hi;
royal! and
magnificent
attendance;
fhe
breakethout;o
happy'art thou,andhappy
are
theft
thy
fervants that
they may
/bind
in
thy prefence!
How much more
may we
affirme
as
much
of
the
happinetfe
of
:fall
Gods fervants that
live
in his
prcfence
andheare hiswifdome
and couufcls
daïly
By
faith
on
him.]
Hence,
s. obferve,
That
if
wee
will have
benefit
by
Chrifi,
wee
muff
bee
beleevers
on
him.
Faith intitleth
a
beleevtr to the
fulneffe
of
Chrilts
merits
,
death
and
obedience,even
unto
all
thofe
treafures
of
graceand bolines which
are
in
Chrift
as
in a
common conceptacic,outofwhich we
by faith
fetch
for the
éontinuall fupply
of
all
wants.
By faith we dwell in
Chrift
and
Chrift ittus.
That
Chriftmay
dwell
in
your
hearts
by
faith.'
By
faith we
obtaine
righteoufoefTe
unto falvation.
In a
word,
nothing beginneth,
nothing continueth
Our
union
with Chrift but faith.
There
is
I
graunt
afecondaryUnion
"whereby
the
foule
cleaveth more
and
more to God
now
reconciled unto it,
as
by
the
affeftions
of
love, joy, &c. But this
prefuppüfeth the
former,
for were it not for
this
precedent
union
of
faith,
we fhould
fly
from
God
as
a
confuming
fire.
Though
a
man
bath
'maily''
members
in'hisbody,
yet
he
bath
but
one
by
which
hee
u-
feth
to
receive
aay
thirig,vq,
the hand;
and fo
though
our
foulés have
many graces
bertowed
on them, yet they
have
but one hand
of
faith,
wherewith
to
receive
Chrift'and
his
benefits unto falvation.
If
then faith
beefö
excellent
'a
thing
as
to
enrich the foule with
all
the
benefits
of
Chrift;
how
fearefull
is
their
finne
,
who
live,
not ca-
ring
to
get thisprecious
grace
of
faith,:
to lye, theeve,
or
whore, they
will
confer%
is
a
notorious crime, but to
live in unbeliefe,
they
neither
account ituncomely,,
nor
dangerous.
To
be
a jayle.
bird
or
a felon
condemned
to be
hanger!,
thou wouldit
think with
thy felfe, what
a
vile
condition am I
ine
Think with
thy
felfe
what
is
unbeliefe
then;
had
not
I
an
unbeleeving heart,
I
had never difhonouled God
by
thefe
pradtifes
if theft
be
bad,
infidelity
is
much, worfe ; this forrifiech
all
our corruptions;
thou
haft flolen fuch
a
commodity
,
by
unbeliefe
thou robbeft God
:
in
the
bafeneffe
of
all
finnes,
fee
infidelity
Litre
worfe. Mourne
and
figh
to
God
under
the
berthed
of
this
finne
,'
bee
importunate
w
itfh
God
above
all againft
this
finny
The
Prifoner maketh
a
paffionate
complaint
when
the
paffengers
goeby
:
fothou
art (butup underunbeliefe, look
up
to
God,
through
the
grate-of
',ell,
and cry
mightily
tó
the
Lord that bee would looke
froni
heaven
upon thee, Pity (good
Lord) an
unbelieving foule.
Tell
Chrift
thou art
a
Prifoner,it
is
but
a
word
of
his
mouth:
fay
to
an
un-
believing heart, reftion the promifes,
and itdhall fo
doe.
L
z
a. We
2:Cor.9.
q.
;
Doti.
To
have
bene-
fit by
Chrift
we
muttbe-
lieve on
him.
Infra
ver le 17.
fi
I.
A
woeful! cafe
iris
to live
in
unbeliefe.