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hp'he¡iag,Chapo3.
V
ER.
things,
it
cannotjudge
of
fpirit
and
of
fpiruall
things.
They
are.
ne-
ver.
fuchis wefeelethem
to
be, but
as
Gods word
and fpirit reveale
themtobe.
Yfe
3.
Let
it teach
us
to
provethe
truth
of
our faith
in
the
dotrine of
fal-
t`i¢a'Yaaf
:
vation b our
faithfulnefe to the
faithfull
Minifters
of
God
who
have
figneóftruc
- y
faith
when,
we
taught it
us:
Thus
did
Ebedmelech,
though a
man full
of
feare and infir-
re
give lers Gods
mity, yet
God.
profeffeth
that
he trufted in him and proved
it,
becaufe'
to (hike
to
he,
received,
countenanced and
proteâed
his
Prophet,
and was faith-
them in their
fúllto
him
in
all his
troubles.
.Such
pooreChriftians
as
feare they
trouale.
have
no
faith. in
Chrift,
becaufe they
feele fo much
feare,
doubting,
and
no fpark
of
faith
to their
fenfe,and
fo
no
partin
Chrift
and
his
Re-.
&caption, Chrift
affures
them
and upon his
oath,'that
if
they
be
faith-
full to bis Miniflers, and
love,
and
reverence
them, they
receive
him,.
and are faithful! to
him,
and
he
will be
their
faithful! Saviour.Iohn
i
3;
ao.Verily,verily,
i
fay
unto
you,
if
Ifend
any,
he
that
receivetb
him
re-
ceiveth me;
and
he
that
receivetb
me,
receiveth him
that
fent me:
mfr
4,
.$cuing
the
fame corruption
is
in us as in
wicked men and Hypo-
crites, and was
in
Chrifts
Difciples,
as
Chrift
witneffeth, though they
felt it
not,
and
would not be perfwaded
ofit,
let
us
walke
humbly
"
aG
pedingour
felves, and fearing changes
,by
our
flefh
, and prefume not
as Peter, upon
our
fenfe
of
never
fo
great
defires, purpofes and afc&i-
ons; but
know there
is
that corruption
and
flelh
as
can
alter
us in
a
mo-
meat. Labour for more
and
more
fpiriruall
ftrength dayly, knowing
we have the fame barke
of
the
flcih apt
to carry
us
downe
the
ftreame,
f
and we
havethe fame Oares
oflufls
and finfull
affelions,
and
unleffe
.:the fpirit
of
grace be our
Pilot
or water
-man,
and row
againft
the
'ftream,and
carry
us
by
an
infinite
power
againft the course
and fiream
of
the world;
we
cannot perfevere. This for the duty which
hee ex-
horteth
to.
The
Reafons
followithe
firft was
handled
in
the
firft
vette
of
the
Chapter.
The
fecond ftandeth thus:
That
which
is
a
glorious thing foryou
to doe,that
you mutt
doe.
But
to
Rand
by your
teachers;
and
truth
received from them,
is
a
glorious thing.
Therefore faint not.
I,
Therefore
when
hee
doth
draw them
on
by
telling them
,
it
is
D.E.
gllriow:
bee
doth
let
us
underftand, That
there
is
a
lawful!
4ec0ing
of
There
is a
fine
Phil.4.
8.
!Mere
be
any
vertue,
auy
pray
fe
, thinke
on
thef
lawful[
4'41-
things: there
is
a
holy ambition which may be
affeeced
and praótifed;
ing or
tome
glory.
though
the glory
of
the world
is
not to be
atfeeted,
yet the
glory whit!,
lrtmrq.
.
tohn
-
44.
if ofGod
mutt be
foughtafter by
us.
We
muff leek
it
by
fuch
things
and meanes,
as
are truly glorious,
r
z
sP
gin_
and give glory anfwerable
tothe nature,
ftate,condition and
dignity
of
elf,nor carnali.
Gods children,
thatis,not
a
flefhly,
but
a
fpirimall
glory,
to
be well re-
puted
of
not
for
natural!,
worldly,
or
any flcfhly
good or
excelletv,
as
wit, wealth,
learning; &c.
but for the Spirit and
fpiriruall graces,
as