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V
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R.
3.
Ephe/lans,
Chap.!.
29
to provoke
thee to
love
and
fear;
and be thaakfull to
the
Lord,
and
fo
fet
forward
thy
fpirituall
falvation.
Secondly;We
fee
here
that the
happineffc,that
the
riches
of
the
fpiritu
-
all
man, are not
known,
not difcerned
with outward
fenfes, and
carnali
reafon;for
fpirituall
things cannot be difcerned,but fpiritually;the
godly
man
bath
a
white flone,
in
which
is
written
a
name,that
none
can
read,
but himfelfe
;
he
is
abfolved from
finne, and accepted
to be
a
Sonne
of
YT'
s
1
tor.:.
Re,.et,t,tr.
God, through Chriff,
and heire
of
heaven
:
And yet becaufe
he
is
thus
made a fonne
of God,
through Chrift, the
world doth
not
know him
;
even
as
we know not the
fonnes
of
Princes,(were they amongft
us)
who
dwell
in
Nations
far from us. But this muff
not difmay
us
:
Some
men
that
carry
a
low
faile, being
of
great
wealth,
living at
an
under rate,
in
regard
of
that their
(late
might beare, when fome
of
greateft (how,
but
meane
wealth,
fcorne
them
as
poore
;
they
fmile at
the matter,
knowing themfelves
in
matter
of
efface,
not
inferiourto
the other,
and
they
pleafe
themfelves thus, that they
are
unknown
:
While
we
have hidden treafures the world knoweth
not
of,
weare
not to be
dejeéfed.
1n
heavenly
places.] Obferve,
Where
all
our
bleffings
are given us,
in
heavens
;
there they are
firft
framed, thencethey come which we have,
there being the
confummation
of
them
referved; our
hope, not
the
habit
whereby we hope, for after
all
things prefent, this
!hall have no place,
xCor.t 3.
but the
things we hope
fist
are in heaven,
our incorruptible
in-
heritance,
is
heaven, referved for us, where
Chrift
our head was
; there
t
10
ha 3.3.
DO.
g,
Saint Paul,
there
all
things may well be
faid
tobe,which
arc given us
in
him.
Now
when the Apoffle did write,
Chriftthe common
treafury
of
all his
Churches good,was
in
heaven.EarthlyParents
give andleave
their
children
bleffings,
there where themfelves havetheir abode
g
they
give
not commonly inheritances to
them
in
Countries they never
did
dwell
in
:
Our
heavenly fathers dwelling
is
in
the heavens,
and
there
he
giveth
us
our
blefïing.Againe,we
fee
that
is
the
place,
where
every thing
rcffeth,
that
I
fay,
in
which
it is firft
bred, from which
it firft
commeth:
fifh
bred
in
water,there they abide,they cannot
live
being
out
ofit;fo
the
creatures
in
the earth:
and
thus thefe fpirituall
benefits,the
place
of
them
is
heaven,
there
is
kept
the
fulnefie
of
them, thence theycome, thence
they
(hall
have
theirconfummation:In this regard,earthly things are
cal-
led things
below,heavenly,things above,where Chrift
frtteth;this
isour
advantage.
What
man
in
a
ftrange
Country,
as a
Sojourner
a
while,
would not
wifh, were he
to
receive
great fummes,
that they
were paid
in
his
own Countrey,for
his
ule,rather then tendredto
him
there,where
he
was
a
ftranger
±
So
it is
with
us,
under
fayle
toward our
Country,
where our father dwelleth,
it is
our
commodity
that
our treafures are
there referved.
The Ufe
is,firft
to
let
us fee
our fecurity,
in
regard
of
thefe benefits
:
Fr.
1.
Such
as
have
earthly
treafures,
they lovewhen
it
is
kept
in
fafety;fo
it
is
that
the treafure laid up
in
heaven,
is
fafethere, neither Ruft cankereth,
nor yet the Theefe breaketh
in.
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