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Ephefians,
Chap.q.,
V
E
a.i6.
Do.
Chrift
is
the
beginner and
encreafer
of
our grace.
Chrift wor-
kerh
grace
in
us.
As
God.
As
man.
z
Peti.
Yfer.
nourifh
and encreafe
every beleever according to
his
condition,
to the
end
that
all
of
us
at
length
may come to
his perfection.
The
words therefore
defcribe
Chrift
our Head from
this
effecì
of
augmenting
his
body
:
The
effed
of
our
encreafe
is
fet
downe,
a. From the antecedents.
z.
From the
meafure.
3.
From the end.
I.
The
antecedents are
two:
a.
We
muff have
conjunction with
Chrift,
and one with
ano.
ther,
all the
body
knit,
&c.
z
.
We
muff have fpirituall
nutriment
of
grace from
Chrift.
This
is
to
be marked
in
that
he faith
joynts
offurniture,kmt
by
ioynts;
that
furnifheth
the body with new
fupply
of
grace
:
for before
the
naturali
body
can
be increafed,
it muff
be furnifhcd
:
So before the
fpirituall man
is
increafed,
it
is
coupled and furnifhed,
as
you have
ir,
Col.
2.2.
2.
The
meafure
of
increafe
is
fet
down
in
thefe words,
according
to
the effeíluall
power
in
the
meafure
of
every
part.
3.
The
end
in
rhofe
words,
to
the edifying
of
it
[eelfein
love
;
that
it
may
thus come,
yea help
it
felle
forward to perfection.
a. Then from
this
that by Chrift
we are laid to receive
increafe
s
obferves
Who
is
the
beginner
and
increaír
of all
grace in us,
even
lefus
Chrifl;
as
he
is
faid,
Heb.
22.2.
the Author and
finifhtr
offaith,
fo he
is
of
every
grace,the beginner
and
augmenter
ofit
in
us,hc
is
the
head,
we
the
members, he
is
the
vine,
we
are
the
branches,
all
our
life and
growth commeth
from him. For the
better
clearing
of
this,
we will
Phew
3.
things.
a. How
Chrift
is a
quickning head.
z.
What
this
encreafe
is.
3,
The
Ufe.
To
the
i.
is
anfwered, we
muff conceive
of Chrift the worker
of
this
life
of grace
and encreafer
of
ir, as
God
and man.
r
As
God
he
is
the
fountaine
of
life,
the
quickening Spirit that
dotti
create
it in
us.
z.
As man he
doth
give
and
encreafe grace inftrumen-
tally,
he being
to
himfelfe
God,
fuch
an
inftrument
as
the
body
is
foul
to the.
a.
Becaufe he
hath
given
himfelfe
a facrifice of
a
fweete finel-
ling favour for
the
abolifhing
of
finne and
death.
z.
Becaufe heas man
maketh
intereeffion, procuring
it to us.
3. He
as
man
doth
by
minifterieof
men
exhibit
ir.
4.
Becaufe we
come
to have
communion with God through
the humane
nature
in
which
he
tooke part
with
us.
For
if
God
were
not
Immanuel,
God
made
manifeft
in
the
flefh,
he were
a
light to which
we could have no
aceeffe.
-
2. For the
2.
This
increafe
is
nothing but
a
further
degree
and
ftrengthening
of
the divine
quality in
us,
or
nature
as
Peter calls
it.
Now
fceing
our encrcafeis from
Chrift,
it
mull teach
us
to
be
no-
thing