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ao
Ephefians,
Chap.
3.
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IT.
his faving
attributes,
wee mutt
dwell
in
houle with him,
forfaking
all
other
heufes
and Kings palaces,
as
c3Ytops
forfoke
Pharaohs Court, and
Pr
-t
Pra-t
t
`°.
David
Ssuls
Court,
and
chofe rather
to he a doorekeeper
to
the
houfe
of
the
Lord.
.
3
For
fuch
Gods
fingular providence, laving love
and
mercy
makes
fpeciall
provifion
of
all faving
good, which
he doth not for
others:
He feeds
his
Saints
with
that
hidden Mannah,that
fecret
fpiritual
com-
fort and peace
that
none others
can
talie
of
;
that
Peacewhich
paffet/
underflanding
: He will come
in
to
them
and
fuppe with them. There
are peculiar
commodities
of
Gods
houfe,onely communicable to God
and his
family, which partake
of
Gods
life and
Nature,
which no
ftrangcrs borne out
of
Gods
houfe
can
enjoy,
called
the Breadef
God;
Pí,t.gr.,y.
the
rftrhteoufnefe
of
God and
of
his
Kingdom. Oh
how great
is
thy
goodneffe
which
thou
hall prepared
for
them
that
lovethee
!
For
as
we
have
an earthly
body
of
an
earthly nature
and fubftance
in
common
with
all
other
creatures,
fo
we
partake
in
common
of
all
earthly good
things,
needfull for our bodies with
other
men and creatures
:
But
as we are
by
regeneration partakers
of
Gods nature,
life, vertues,and
that
nature
which
is
peculiar
to the
Saints, fo we enjoy
peculiar
light, food,
ap-
parel', and
all
things
proper thereto. And
as
the
providence, care,
love, and mercy
of
naturali Parents
is
feene
in
minifiring
and pro
-
viding all needfull
common good for our
bodies
:
So
is
Gods
fpeciall
fatherly care,
love and
mercy
icen,
in
giving thefe fpeciall
and pecu-
liar
good things to
us
his
children
and family
:
As we are fpiritually
borne from heaven,
and are
members
ofChrift,
children
of
God
and
not
of
this world:
So
we are bleffed
of
God,
the Father
of
our Lord
Jefus
Chrift,with
all fpirituall bleffings, with
all
plenty
and provifion
for the
foule
and for our new nature
,
as
we are for our bodies.
Of
the
fignifi.
The
word
in
the
originall
[,r-]
fome may
fay
fignifiett[
father-
hood,)
but
betide the argument which maketh
that
IefTh
fit
& the
mat-
ter
of
making one
Angell
a
fpirituall father
to another,
which
is
Con-
jedurall
Divinity, this word
as
Saint
Jerome
witnefleth anfwereth
to
mt/hphachatb, and fo was
tranflated by the
LXX.
Numb. z.
there it
is
not
fo found
now,but
Lev
25Jo.
St
Baftl
is
read
fo
to
have tranflated.
The
Taft
thing
is
that
he diftributeth in regard
of
the
place
all
Gods
houfehould
into heaven and
earth; which doth teach
us
:
DA:
That
the Scripture
knows
bui
two
places
for
the
receipt
of
all
belie-
The
Scripture
vers,
either
heaven or
earth
:
So when the Apoftle
will tell
us, where
'"
all they
were who were gathered under
Chrift,
as
their
head
and
re-
pt,ces ro
rc-
deemer, he rangeth them
in
thefe orders, things
in
heaven andthings
ccirebel,e,era,
in
earth,
the
Apoftle forgot
Limbo there,
and Purgatory here: As
heaven and
earth.
the Scripture
doth
know but
two
forts
of
men, fo
but two
places,
Eph.r. :o.
Heaven
for
the
Triumphant, Earth for the
Militant
:
and
therefore
here
they
make
the time
of
doing
good,
of
finding
the
race,
&c.
The
Papifts make 3. forts
of
men,
Perfta,
very
finfull,
men
of
mid-
11401 So
3.
places:
Heaven, Hell, Purgatory for their
middle
fort:
But
though
the Scripture make
of
believing men
two
forts,
Pcrfcá,
and!