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1
ephefians,Chap.t.
V
E
R.3,
r1/4.
z.
This
fhould ftirre up
our
hearts heaven
-ward,
for
where
our chiefe
treafure
is,
fhould
not our hearts be there with it
?
Were
Land fallen
us
by
the death
of
any,in
the remoteft
(hire
of
England,we would not
think
much
of
going to fee,and take
pofheflïon
of
it:
Thus it
(!could
be
here,we
fbould ftrive while
on
earth, to get
a
large entrance into
this heavenly
Kingdome,while
we are here on
earth.
Vf. 3.
Dill.
This
confidered,
is a
great ground
of
patience
:
We
fee men
on the
way, will content themfelves with
forty lodging,
and paffe
by little
dif-
eafements
; for they know
that
once at
home,they
(hall
take their cafe,
and
want no contentments
:
Here we have many wants fpirituall, we
are
incountred with
many
difficulties
; but at our home,
in
the
heavens,
we
have
all
kinde
of
bleffings
referved
for
us
;
See,
Heb.
t
o.
They
endured
with
joy,
the
,oiling of
theirgoads,
knowing
that in
heaven
they
had
a
more
enduring fubflance,
Again,that
he
faith,[ All,iritralbdefsings.]We
may
note,how liberally
God
dealeth with
his
children:
To
give
us
any bleffrngs,were
mercy,for
Donaff+iritrtafia:
we have juftly forfeited them all;
To
give
us
fpirituall bleffings
is
more;
d
ú
li4tctcr.
but thus to
give
us
all kinde
of
fpirituall bleffings
;
yea,
as
you heard
in
i
v,,,,.p.,_
the
laft
Doctrine, to
makeevery bleffing,
after
a
fortfpirituall,this
is
his
ffhoNe/aniti-
exceeding bountifulneffe:Heehathgiven
us
all things
that
pertaine
to
life
f
a
,
que
**stab-
eternal!,
in
the
world to come, and
to
live
godlily in
this
prefent world,
I
Pet.
z.
r.
We
fee
great
men on
earth, doe not
onely give their
Heires
efcfaAtrtóla-
nonenera
/'bt
earthly
bleffings,
but
all kinde
of
earthly
bleffings,
dignity,
offices,
they
conßaate 4aami_
take
them wives,beftow
on them
houfe,land,mony,every thing aboun-
wt
onespeuo
dantly;thus
Both
our heavenly Father
in
things fpirituall.To underftand
"`f
"'''`t'J'
cáß.
it more fully;know thefefpirituall benefits
areeternal!.
I
meane given
us
foreternity,
or,
in
time performed
to us.The
firft
are ourElection,
Pre
-
deftination,ofwhich hereafter.
Now
thefe
given us
in
time
are
double,fuch
as
we havefor
the prefent,
fuch
as
are kept
to
be revealed hereafter,s Pet.1.3.Thefe which
we
have
for the prefent,are Pcfitive,
fuch as
doe
conferre force good thing upon
us;or Privative,fuch
as
keepe evill
from us.Gods
pofftiv a
fpirituall bene-
firs
are inward or outward
:
Inward,
all
illuminations, infpirations,
gifts
of
the
fpirit, all moving and confirming
of
Grace once received
:
Out-
ward
blefïings,
Word,Sacraments,
occafions
outwardly moving
us
to
good,
all
the
gifts
of
grace
in
others, by which we
are edified,
they
are
our
fpirituall bleffings
whom they profit,not theirs onely
in
whom they
are
received
:
In
a
word,everything which
is
made
to
further
our falva.
tion,
is
made in this regard
a
fpirituall
outward
bleffing
to
vs.
Now
thePrivative bkffings,in not letting temptations come,not come
in fuch
ftrength,in
putting them
by,
in
defeating the
effefk
which
other
-
wife they
would have,they
are above
all can
be
fpoken
or cöprehended.
The
bleffings
to
be revealed
in
the
laft time,
which
refped both
the
foule and
body,
for
that
(hall
be madefpirituall, they
are fuch
as
never
eye faw,
nor
care
heard:And though we
have them
not
in
poffeffion,yet
they
are
ours;
we are bleffed
with them, though
wee are not yet
poffcffed
of
them;
as
an heire
bath right to
his
lands,during
his
Ward-
fhip.