477 / 808
VER
.
4,
phefianr,
Chap.
4.
447
let
there
be
no
ftrife
amongft
us, we are one
body
,
fellow-members
pre
with another.
We
muff be wife
therefore
and
doe
in
this myfti-
call creature
as
we doe
in
our naturali
men:
if
we
be
fuch
as
have
a
member
out
of
joynt,we
feek
while it
is
green
to
have it
fet againe
with
the fellow
-
members:
So
if
our
affections
be alienated from
any
ofour brethren
and lifters, we are Ihot
out
of joynt
, we muff
betime
knit
againe
by
the bond
of
love
with that
fellow-
member fromwhom
we
are
fwerved.
Who
ever
in
his
right
fenfo hated
his
owne
flefh? But
if
we
that
are
members
of
one
body
fhould neglect
one another, bite one
another,
we fhould defpightfully intreat
our owne
fiefh,
which
is
ex-
ceeding monftrous.
vend
one
Spirit.]
If
the formermotive
be
not
fufficienr,
here
is a
fecond. Obferve;
Thu
ought
greatly
to
move
we
to
love,tothink
that
all
of
us who
doe
be-
lieve,
live
by
oneandthe
felfefame
spirit.
What
Spirit
is
here meant?
Gods
Spirit which
doth
quicken and
fandify
every beleever.
r Cor.
rz.
t r,
one and the
fame
Spirit
worketh
all in
all.
It
may be asked,
how
this place
agreethwith that,
Bevel.
t.
4.Where
grace
is
trifledfrom
the
Father,
Son
and
[yen
Spirits!
The
place may be confirued
of
the untreated Spirit, or
of
the An-
gels
:
if
of
the
fiat,
it
is Paid
feven,
not
to
multiply the
effcnce
of
ir,
which
is
one, but to
note
the
manifold works
and graces
of
ir.
Second-
ly,
it
may
be
conftrued
of
Angels, and
that molt
fitly comparing it
with
the
fifth
chapter
,
verre
6.
where
S.
John
faith,
l
beheld
,
and
loe,
in
the midfl
of
the throne
and
of
the
feure beafls, and in
the midfi
of
the
Elders
flood
a lambe as
it had
been
faire
,
having
(even bornes,
and
feven
eyes
?,
which are the
fevenf(iirits
of
God,
fentforth
into
all
the
earth.
This
Both
not eftablifh the idolatrous doctrine
of
Angels,
nor
calling
on Saints
departed;
for
though grace be
wifhed from
them,
it
is
not
wifhed
as
from autbours or procurers by their merits
and interceffions,
but
as
Minifters
fent
forth
for the good
of
them who
[hall
bee
heires
of
falvation.
It
eftablifheth
not
calling on Saints, becaufe
the
fpirits
ofjuft
men departed
are
not
fent
forth
to
minifter
among
us.
To
rcturne
now
to
the
ufe
of
the
dodrine.
We
all
of
us
mutt from this fo ftrait
conjundion, that
we
have one
fpirit
in
us,be moved
to
live in
unity.
The thing
is
manifcft
that
we are
thus,as
r Car. r
z,
r
3.By
one
spirit
we
are all
baptized
into
one
body. So we
have
been
made
to
drink
the fame
[pint nalldrink.Wchavethrough
faith
drunk
that blood,through which
the quickning
fpirit
commeth into
us
all.
We
have
not
every one
a
diverfe fpirit,as
every man hath
a
diverfe
foul: But
look
as all
the members
of
the body
have
the
felf
-fame foule,
though each
of
them
a diverfe
operation: So
we have all
of
us
one and
the
felfe
-fame fpirit
,
though the
operations
of
it bediverfe.
And this
is
a
confideration,
which,
if
any
other
may prevaile
with
us,
that
all
of
us are fo
many men
that
live in
a
manner with one foule:
Though
in
deare
friends
,
the heart
of
one may cleave
to the otherby
an
inter-
courfe
EphcC.g.t9.
Doff.
A feconel
mo-
tive
to Con-
cord
, it
to
confider
how
we live by
one
fpirit.
Jeff
vinf
kuofl,'
v1nf:
What the re;
ven(pirits
are.
Revel.
f.6.
Heb. 4. z4.
v¡e.
Let irprovoke
usto
a
tirait
conjundion.
z
Car. to. 4.