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Ephefians,
Chap.4.
s
R.16.
=
cor.r.3o.
ù
made wifdome, righteoufneffe,
fanti`ification, redemption;
They
leave
Ter.
:r
;.
the
fountain
of
living
waters,
and
betake
them
to
dry
Cifierns.
They
will
fay;Why,we
truft on
Chrift too.
Nnfw.
No,any
thing
joyned
with
Chri(t
in
matteroffalvation,
overthroweth Chrift
:
and
Col.
a.
18.
When they
held the mediation
of
Angels,
on the
fame
ground the Papifts doe,
the Apoftle faith, they forfooke
,
and did
not
hold the
head.
Chrift
Jefus.
Pie
a;
We
muli be furred
up
more andmore to know and
affe
%
our Sa-
We
rout
to
viour,
to
get him
living
in
us
by
his
Spirit
; Wee
mutt
fo
oft
as
by the
end
ogre-
Word
or
Sacraments,
God
reneweth the promife
of
Chrift,
or Coin-
°
"v
our
fai
mandement
of
beleeving on
Chrift,
we
muttrenew our faith
;
If
God
fay,Grow
up in
Chrift,
our hearts fhould anfwer
with
an
Echo, Lord,
thy
fcrvant will
grow
up
in
him.
When
would
an
ambitious Cúurti-
er
be weary
of
being graced by
his
Prince!
When
would
a
worldling
be weary
of
having
the
world come
in
upon hime of
growing
in fub-
fiance! We
fhould
be
heavenly ambitious and
covetous,
we fhould
never bee
weary
of
infinuating
our
felves
by faith
and affeetíon into
Chrift,
of
getting
the
rich gifts
of
his
grace from him;
he is
the Head,
that
anointed
of
God
,
who hath
the oyle
of
gladnefíe above
his
brethren, that
we may receive
from
his fulneffe.
yfe 3.
This
fhould
exhort
us
to
walke
on without
fainting,
hold
on
in
The
more
we
Chri(t,
this will bring
us
further and
further into Chrift. What if
walk
to
t
thou
ftandeft not fo firme
a
What
if
little windes feeme to fluke dime
we
(hall
go on, thou
(halt
grow rooted
in
him thou knoweft
not
how,
yea,
be
rooted in
while thou doeft
thus,
(
though thou fhakeft) thy roote doth
ftrike
him.
lower and lower into
Chrift.
Many
are
moved to think how
weakly
and loofely
they
are
fattened,
how
fienderly
they
are rooted
in
him
:
But
to
be
rooted,
is
not every
believers
flare,
I
meane thus
deeply
rooted;
this
is
the condition which
they
attaine,
who
have long
wal-
kedin
Chrift.
o6jctl.
But
what
then!
if
Chriflians
bee
not at the
firft
rooted,
a
weak faith may
be quite overthrowne.
vinfw.
True,
if
it
be
not rooted
in
any
manner, but
this
they
are
Degrees
ofta
from their
firft fetting
into
Chrift by
faith,
yea
fo
rooted,
that they
king root in
(hall
never
fall al
together;
but this
is a
higher
degree
of
rooting,which
Chrift.
doth not
oncly
Phut
out falling, which the
other
doth
allo,
but
even
that
fhaking
and more fearfull tottering for the molt part, which
trees
may have
and(rand nevertheleffe,
to whichthe
former
degree
is
fub-
jeét on feeling every wind.
I
fay,for the
moll
part,for
fuch
may be
the
ftrength
of
temptation
and
defertion meeting, that rooted David
may
fhrewdly
totter.
VERSE
16.
VERSE.
16.
By
whom
all
the
body
being
coupled
and
knit
together
by
every
jeynt,
for
the
furniture
thereof (according
to
the effetiaall
power
which
is
in
the meafureofevery
part)
recei'veth increafe
of
the body, unto
the
edifying
ofit
felfe
in
love.
Now
having mentioned
Chrift ,
he joyneth
a
defcription
of
him
from
his
relation
to the Church,and
efficacy in
it
:
For the better
con
-
ceiving