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3.
Doti.
Doff.
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Ephefians,Chap.3.,
V
E
R.
15.
that
is
called
a
Chriftian
after
Chrift,
depart
from iniquity.W ho
would
difclaimehis
right
in
Chriftendomee
this
is
made
fufficient confide-
ration to oblige
us
to
all holineffe:
For
as
one
who
profefcth
himfelfe
the
Kings
fubjeét, acknowledgeth
himfel
fe
bound
in
all
things to
o-
bey
him fo farm
as
he may
with
his
duty
to Ged,
though
he be
net
fo
neare
his
perfon
as
thofe
of
his Majcfties
hcufhold
are:
So
we that pro-
feffe
our
{elves
Gods people,muft
yield our felves fubjeéts
in
all
things
to
him, though we have not that more neare refpcet which
is
found
in
others, who by
a kind
of
excellency
are called
men
of
God.
Men
thinke
that
unleffe
they
turne
Puritanes, they
are
not
bound
to
bee fo
precifc
as
not
to fweare faith or
troth, not to
game and fwagger,
yet
whofoever
will
but challenge
thus much,
as
to
be named
the
child
of
God,
muff
not bolfter himfelfe
in
any courfe
of
ungodlineffe.
It
doth
reach us
how that our
offences difhonour
the
name
of
God
which
iscalled
upon
us:
for when we
are
Gods people,
if
we
trefpaffe
in
the
eyes
of
the world, then they
fay
Loe thefe
are
Gods
people,
thefe are the holy people, looke Ezech.
36.23.
/will
fanllify
my
great
Name,
which
ye
have prophaned
among
the heathen, and
the heathen
fhaU
know
that
I am
the
Lord
when
I
Jha1
be
f
ànllilied in
you before
their
eyes.
So Rem.z.
zq
.
By
you
is my
Name
blafphemed
all
the
day
among the
Gen-
tiles.
Thisconvincethmany,whodoenot
thinke the more
precife care
of
duties
to concerne them, but
that Church
-men
only,
or
thofe
who
will not
keep
company
but
profeffe
more
forwardly then others,
thefe
onely
they
think tyed to
ftriétnefl'e in
their
coude. Challenge
them
for
a
ufuall
oath, they
flip
the collar
and
plead, why they
are no
preci-
frans,
none
of
thofe forward
profeffors:
But
when they will
beare
the
Name
of
God,
and call
God Father, who
is
fuch
a
Iudge
as
will
not
let idle
words
efcape him ,
they
profeffe
enough (were it
in
truth)
to
reftraine
all
fuch licentioufneffe.
Others'will
be on
the tops
of
their
brethren
if
they doe
offend never fo
little
in
thofe things,which them
-'
felves
pradife
in
the higheft degree:and why? they
are
profeffors,
as
ifthemfelves (were not
their,
vow forgotten)
make not profeffion
of
all holineffe.
This
fhould flirre
Us
up,
if
wee will
profeffe
to
beare the Name
of
God,
and
to have
God
our
Father, to
endeavour
holineffe
,
otherwife
we fhould difhonour
that glorious
name
of
his
which
is
named
upon
us:
What
thofe
are
who
are
not under our houfhold government,
mat-
ters not
to
our difcredit; but
the venues
and vices
of
our
children are
our praife, or our reproofe.
The
fecond
thing to be
marked is,
that
all
the
adopted
children
na-
med after
God,are
called one entire family
:
whence obferve,
What
lirait
coniuntllon
all believers
have,
they
are
all
one
hdulhold,
the
houJhold
of
God.
But this bath
been
handled
in
the 19. verfe
of
the
a.
chap,er.
Furtherfrom this that
we are
faid
tobe
Gods
family : obferve;
It
u
theglory,excellency
and
fpeciall advancement
of
Cbriflians,ebat
they
are