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4..
Ephejans,
Chap.
4..
4"
tailed
it
was
Tweet.
What
followeth,
he
gave
his
fbaulder
to
beare
,
and
Gen
49. =s.
would part
with
his money
rather then forgoe
his quiet privacy:
So
it
is
with
us
as Gen.-13.
8,9
.
Let there
be
no
ftri
fe I
pray thee
between
me
and
thee,
&c.
ys
not
the
whole
land
before
thee? Separate
thy felfe
from
me,sf
thou
wilt
take the
left hand,
t
will
got
to
the
right,&c.Here
we fee
in
Abraham,
that
a
peaceable
affeEtion
will part
with
his
owne right,
ems,. s.
7.
rather
then
give place
todiffention.
Verily
it
is
a
fault
among
you
(
faith
the
Apoftle)
that
yegoe
to
law
one
with another,
why doe yea
not
rather
fiferwrongc
Two
hard things cannot make
a
wall,
but
a
loft
and
a
hard
thing;
no more
can
two hard
hearts
that
will yeeld to to nothing.
If
therefore
we defire
Concord,
getpeaceable
difpofitions,
a
blef-
cf.
fed
thing; and
if
any
loft to
he
contentiows, remember
that
we
have
no
[itch
Gepo
doneecoa
s.
ete
enflame nor
the churches
of
God.
But
how
(hall we
get
and maintaine peace?
Loeb
i.
Take heed
of
giving offence,for
asafparkecaufeth
fire,
fodoe
"Inf.
offences cattle
(bile
,
Prov. tS.
Grievowa words caufe
/(rife,buta
Mi.
an-
ax
n
d
co
g
nc
fiver paciffesh
wrath.
It
is
the Apoftles exhortation,
Let the
peace
of
Peace.
God
rule
in
your
hearts, and
be
yea
amiable,
that
is
the
way
to
have Peace
coi
.,5.
rule,
in
your hearts.
2. As
not to
give,
fo
not
to
take
offence, for
wee cannot live
a-
mong men,
hutthere
will
be
occafions,
but
we
muff learne to paffe
by hm.;.=.
offences and injuries,
and
follow the
rule of
the
Apollo,
Be
peaceable,
gentle,
eafe
to
be
entreated
;
ready
to
accept conditions
of
Peace with
our
brethren.
3. Take
heed how we begin
any
contention
,
for
when
it
is
once
let on
foot,
it is
hardly
compofed,as
fire and
water
if they
get
a
little riot,:7.4.
paffage,
are
hardly flopped or quenched, but
run
with violence.
The
beginning
offirife
is
as
when
one
letteth
out
waters.
4.
To
keep
Peace,
get pure
hearts:
A
heart
full
of
tuft
is
alwayes
turbulent;
mares,
as
he
was pure, fo he was peaceable
:
The
devill on
the contrary,
as he
is
an
impure and uncleane fpirit,
fo he
is
the father
of
all
difcords and diffentions
in all
places,and
whofoever
are
hereunto
addi&ed, doe moll
lively
refemble him.
VERSE
4.
There
is
one body,
and
one
Spirit,
even
as
yea
are
called VERS.
4.
in
one hope
of
ygur
vocation.
Now
the
Apollo
(becaufe this
is
a
thing which the
nature
of
matt
lulling after envy,
brooketh not, which
Satan
that
envious one migh-
tily
oppugneth)
doth
enforce the duty by diverfity
of
reafons.
r.
From the things wherein we
are
one.
a. From this,
that
every one
hath
fome
thing
fingular and
proper
to himfclfe:
For
both
thefe (as
(hall
be
opened)
are
forcible motives
to
keep
the fpirituall Vnion above named.
The
fide kind
of argument
bath
leven
branches layd downe
in
the fourth, fifth,
and
fixth verfes.
The
fecond
is
layd downe
in
the
feventh verfe
,
and
is
profecuted to
the feventeenth verfe
of
this
chapter.
l
irft then
the
Apoftle reafoneth thus.
Thofe
that
are
one
body,
they mull be at
one.
-Wee