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R.
15.
Ephelians,
Chap.
4..
50I
though
they have no found reafon, yet they have fophifticall fhowes:
and falfhood
hath
fuch a
colour fometime,that
the
feemethtruer then
truth
it
felfe.
Let
us
whet
up our diligence,
and flye
to
him
who
bath
treafures
of
wifedome
and
knowledge, that he would
keepe us in his
nigh,
and
make
us
defcry things
that
differ.
Let Paftors
and
Teachers out
of
a cautelous feare
be carefull
to
keepe
their
people
out of there
huckfters hands. Every bad leaven
which
fuch feducers fpread,
doEtrines
of
licentiouftïeffe and
riot under
the name
of
liberty or
fuch like; we muff
encounterthefe
wolves,
and
keepeour flockes untouched
of
them.
What
a
pity
is
it when
they
doe by
life and
doctrine
udificare
adgehennam,
that
none
is
found,who
hath
courage once
to
barke
at
it
Laftly, it
niuft
teach
us
a
godly wifedome,
and
by learning
the
flrength
of
thefe
men,their
engines, to be
forewarned
againft
the
dan-
ger
of
them.lf
the tongue
of
Angels
should
withdraw
us
from
Chrift
or
any
of
his
truth, theLord
give
us
power to
accurfe
themand turne
from them
as
molt
dangerous Syrens.
VERSE
15. Bat
let usfollow
the
truth
in love,andin
all
things
grow
up
into him whichis the head,
that
is,
Chri
ft.
Now
followeth what
we are
to
doe;
we
are
to
grow
up
:
for this
is
the
principali duty,
the other
is
but the way, or
meane
by which
wee
may
grow
up. But
to
open
the verfe:
it
mutt be knowne
that this
phrafe
may be otherwife conftrued,
Let
we
be
true
in
love,
that
is, love
truely, without hypocrifie
:
but
feeing
the word
fignifieth
to
fpeake
truth, doe
truely, follow
truth, the
laft
fenfe
is
here fitteft.
I.
Becaufe
of
the oppofition,
Let
us not
be
led with
every winde
of
Dottrine,
but let us follow the
truth.
2.
Becaufe the
Word
of
truth
is
the
meane
going before our grow-
ing up.
r Pet.
2. 2.
Is
new borne babes
deft
e
the fineere milke
of
the
Word,
that
yemay grow thereby.
In
Leve.]It
may be underftood either love
in
regard
of
the
truth,or
love mutuall
of
one
to
another
:
the latter
fenfe
is
here
to be
taken,
both
becaufe
itis
fpoken abfolutely
[in
Love:] not
in
love
of
it
:
and
the
next verfe
doth
film,
that
this
is a
grace
that doth
build
or
increafe all
the
body,
and
therefore
fitly fet before
our grow-
ing up.
It
may be asked
what
it is,
to
grow
up
in
all
things
?
4nfo,. That
as an infant
groweth not
in
one,
but
in
every
member
:
fo
we thould
grow
every
way,
in
every member,
in
every grace
that belongeth to
the new creature.
What
is
it
togrow
up
in
Cbrift?
Anew.
To
have more and
more
union
with
him
and fellowfhip in his fpirir.
The
film
is
this.
"
Let
us
not be led withwinds
of
doûrin,
but follow the
truth,
"
yea
let
us fo
follow the truth,as that we
may
remember
to
keepe
"
the bond
of
love Inviolable, and
by this
meanes, let us
grow up,
"
not
(land at
a
flay,
in
every part
of
the new creature, further and
t.
furthergetting
Union
and
Communion with
Chrifk.
X
x
3
In
rfe
2.
VERS:
I
(.
What to
grow
up
in
all
things.
What
to
grow up
in
Chtifi.
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