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the
Apof
{le
fpeaketh,
Gal.
4.1.
A Son
while
he
u
if
under
Tutors,little d
3
fereth
from
a
fervant
:
So
it is
with
us
,
though
wee
have an eternal!
weight
of
glory which belongeth to
us
,
yet
here we
get but the
firft
fruits, we get
the
Spirit very fparingly.
Now
looke what great
fiches
Long
for
en-
wil
do that
are
not
at
yeares,
they
willong
til
they come to age
,
that
whoié
she
they may have
al
in
their
own hands,they
wil
beare many things pati-
ently, becaufe they know they
(hall
come one day to another conditi-
on
:
So
mat
we lift up our hearts
to
think
of
this time, takethings
in
good part,
as
folacing our
felves
with
thefe hopes.
Other
things
that
might
be
gathered,
you may
fee
chap.'.
v.alt.
VERSE
14.
That
we
henceforth
be
no more
children , wavering and
VERB.
14.
carried
about
with
every winde
of
doctrine,
by
the
deceit
of
men, and
with
craftine
ffe, whereby they
lye
in
Waite to
deceive.
Now
followeth the fourth
point,
the
fruit
of our
being
built
up
by
the
Miniftery
:
it is
laid
downe,
r.
By
that which we
muff
avoid.
2. By
that which we
muff
doe.
The
1.
in
this v.
The
thing we
are
toavoid,is
inconftancy
in
profef-
Pion
of
the truth
,
which
is
laid
downe by
a
double amplification;
a. Drawne from comparifon
,
that
we
be
not
as
children
carried
about.
z.
Taken from the
caufes
of
inconftancy
:
the one inward ,
in
thofe
words,
through
the deceitofmen
,
which word
fignifieth
the
caft
ofa
dye,
in
tatting
of
which,
becaufe there
mtay
be legerdemane, force
put it for craftineffe
,
in
the hazard
of
which,
becaufe there
is
great
uncertainty,
force
put it for inconftancy and uncertainty
in
the nature
of
man;
and this feemeth
the
belt,
becaufe
that
craftineffe
is
expreffed
in
the words
following.
The other
cuff
outward,is the
craftineffe
of
falfe teachers
,
which
is
let downe from the
end it
tendeth
to,
trea-
cherous circumvention or feducing
a fcontlike kind
of
feducement.
The
fumme
of
thewords
:
"
Seing
God hath
givenfuch
to build
us
up, we
muff
not
be
"like
things without
foundation,
waving and whirled
up
"and
dowse
with
every
winde ofdoólrine
,
as
children
;
"
which commeth partly from that inbred
inconftancy
of
"our
natures;
partly front
that
wilineffe
of
falfe
teachers,
which
lye
in
ambu(h for
to
deceive and feduce
us;For the
"
wordisbeft
a
&ively
conftrued.
.
Then
marke,
what
is
an excellent
meant
of
keeping us
from wave- Doti'.
ring,
the cleaving
to
and
attending
on
the Pallor
and
reacher.
What
It
keeporh
us
doth
keepe
the
fhcepe from
the
Wolfe,
but their following the Shep-
heard
e
Paflors.
And therefore
it
doth
teach us,that
if
we willbe preferved from wa-
Pfe,
veriagby the fuggeftionof
falfe
teachers, then
wee muff cleave
to
thofe that
are given us
of
God for teachers.
If
a
woman will be
fafe
from luftfull
perlons abroad
,
the muff
live
at home. And
this
is a
great prefervativeto
us
againft the poyfon
of
all
feducers,when
in
our
hearts we
give
good allowance,and
take
good
liking
of
our owne
tea
-
chers.