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How all yet
are
imperfeet.
How wc (hall
be
perfeft.
a
TheÇ.3
.
Dcii.
We
are
here
but
children,
and
in our
minority.
Vfr.
We
molt
ex-
pedt
correftib.
2.
And
to
receive
but
foute (mall
portion
of
our
inheritance.
Ephe
/amt,
Chap.
4.
V
L R.
13
r.
If
every
member be
not
prefent
in ir,
it
is
not perfect.
2.
Ifevcry
member
bee
not come to the
perfcdt
growth ofit.
So
we who
are
the members
of
Chrift,
are
not yet
a
perfedt man,
becaufe
many
of
our fellow-members are ungathered.
Againe,all
of
us
that
are
brought home, whether
the triumphant or militant
,
wee
have
not
our
perfedt
growth
:
The
fpirirs
of
the
jut}
(though
in
corn-
parifon
of
that they were)
they are freed from
all iinperfedtion
,
yet
compared with that they
Thai
be,
they
are
not
all
out
perfedted
;
for
they
walke
now partly by fight, partly by faith
and hope
in
regard
of
things not accomplifhed
:
When
now perfedtion
Thal
come,
faith
and
hope
fhal ceafe.
Againe, for their
bodies
they
are
unglorified
,
their perlons
there-
fore
are
not come to the
ful
growth
of
glory.
Now
filch
members
as
are
militant, they know imperfedtly,
they have the
old
leaven
in
part
with them
:
their bodies fubjeet to
weakneffes, fzcknefiq
death,
&c.
This
then
wil lead
us
to
fee
the
frate
ofa
perfedt man
to
which
we
Thal
come.
For
itftandeth
in
thefe
2.
things.
z.
That
all
beleevers
Thal
then be brought together
,
who
are
the
feveral
members
of
this
body.
a. Upon
every beleever
Thal
bee
put
in it
the
ful meafure
of
glory
in
fouk
and
body.
In Soule, perfedt
knowledge, righteoufneffe, holineffe,joy,
&c.
In
body,perfedt ftrength, immortality,
fpirituality,
glory,
&c.
For
as
a
candle
in
a
lanthorne, doth
make the
home
(dine
:
So the
foule glori-
fied, Mall
by redundance
affcdt
the body
wich
brightneffe
and
glory.
Thus
you
fee
what
it is
to
come
to be a
petfeft
man.
This
ferveth
to
let
us
fee
how
true
it
is
that
it
dash
not
yet
appease
what
we
Thal
be, and
to
frirre
us
up
to get our
felves
more
and more
builded by the Gofpel,
that
we may attaine this perfedtion
and
to
long
till we meet Jefus
Chrift
in
the
clouds
,
which
fhall have going
with
it
fo
glorious
a
condition
:
The
Lord
guide
you to
love
God,and
wai-
ting
fir
the
appearance
ofJefes
Chrìff.
To
the meafure
oftbe
age
of
ehe
fulneffe
ofChriff.]
Obf.
What
is
our eflate
,as
yet,
wee
are but like children inminority:
we need
no great proofes
ofit;for
while
the
Miniftcry continueth
ro
this
body,
it
is
an
argument that
it
is
not
of
full age,
as
here he fpeaketh
:
for the
fchoolemafter, tutor, guardian, when one commeth
ofyeeres,
they
then give
over
:
So fhould this
tutorfhip
of
the
Minifterie furceafe,
if
we
were perfedt.
This therefore may give
us
to confider for
infrrudrion,
if
we
weigh
what
is
done
in
them, or
by them
:
For
firft we
fee that while
we are
not adulti, we are
fubjt&to
corref
ion
;
and
fo
ir is
with
us,
wee are
fubjedt
to the corredting hand
of
the
Fatherof
fpirits,
to many tribu-
lations.
We
fee
that though they
are heires
of
faire
hopes, yet they
are
kept
ftraitand
made goe neere
the winde
in
the
yeeres
of
their nonage,
as
the