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V
E
R.
7.
Ephe/ì
ns,
Chap.
4.
469
As the
lea
rccciveth the
whole body
of
waters, fo
that it imparteth
How
we
re
to
all
rivers,
which
ferve
for the more commodious watering
®f
cave
the
earth:
Now
we receive
not grace thus, but
by
meafure,fo farra
as
our
veffclis are
capable
ofir;
for
as
God
doth proportion our
capaci-
rie,
fo
cloth
he
replenifh
us
accordingly,
as
if two
bottles
be
throwne
into
the
Sea, each
of
them doth
receive fo
much
as
it
can con-
raine.
a. Wee
all receive fuch
a
proportion
as is
convenient
to
fit
us
for the calling wherein we are.
Thus
then it
is
with
us,
that
none
of
us
have
all
grace for kind, yea
that
which we
have
is
but
in
part.
W
hich fhould make
us
walke
humbly,
according
to
our meafure,
pre
T.
not
above,
to
undertake things within our compaffe.
For
as
men
that
We
muff
not
over
-rent
themfelves, when they have
but
fiftie
pounds
will live
at
a
na,e
Ye
ou-
the
rare
of
a
100.1.
cannot hold out
:
So
a
man may
over-lay the
mea-
mearure of
Cure
of
grace which
he
hath received,prefuming
on things
for which
grace.
they are
not
fitted.
Again,it
Ihould
perfwade
us
to
peace in
as
much
as
every one
of
us
fe
Z,
ha
but our meafure; for
if
all men had
one meafure
of
knowledge
And live
in
with
me,
I
might
feparate my
felfe
from
him
that
would not thinke
as.
peace with
my fella, becaufe
I
might know
he
did
it
malicioufly, convinced
in
his
`hCC,.
confcience
;
but when
men have
knowledge according
to
their
mea-
lure,
tome more,
Come
kffe;
I mutt therefore
bfare,becaufe they
have
knowledge according
to their
mcafure, God hath
not
as
yet
revealed
that to
them
which
he
bath to me.
Again,
it
theweth the molt
wife
diftrihution
of
grace, for things
Yfe
3,
which are done
in
meafure,
number, weight,
are all
exatly
or-
dered.
The
laft
Circum(tance is;
That the Author
of
this
gracegiven
us
is
Cbri
115
Whence
we
frame,
That all
grace
is
received
from
Chrifl. Iohn a.
16.
of
his
fulneffe
we
Dea.
allreceivegrace
for
grace.
He
is
the head,
full
of
grace,
diffufing it
into
All
grace
is
all his
members;
fo
that
our
whole
grace
is
given
us
according
to
his
Choi&
from
good.
pleafure,
Mar.
i
1.
25, 26.
Grace
and
truth
come
by
lefus
Chrift,
loh.
i.
We
are Meted with
all
fpirituall
and
heavenly
blefsinQs
in
Chrift,
Eph.
i.
3.
Fie is
made of
G'od,Wi
fedome,Righteoufnefe, Sanaiftcation
and
redemption,
1
Cor.
i.
3o.
No
man
can
challenge any thing
'as
due
to
him,
becaufe he
is
better by
nature,
worke, labour, or
defers
then
others
:
but
Chrift
as
free
Lord
meafures
forth
his
gifts, giving
to
everyone feverally
as
he
will,
and he Rands
not
bound to
any man
for
the goodneflc
of
his
nature, labour or worke
:
Chrift
is
an abfo-
lute
Lord,
and
all
men,
pore
baggers,
his
almefinen equally depen-
ding upon his
grace,
to
give them more
orleffe, according to
his
owne
Will
and Free
Grace. As
all ftarres
f
,ine
in
the light
of
the Sunne,
fo'
all the Saints
of
God
by influence
of
grace received from
Chrift;
what
elfediflinguifhed
Iohnfrom
Iudas,
Simon
Freer
from
Simon
t9v(agus;
but
onely
Chrift who
fhined
with
his
grace up& the
one,
not
upon
the