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R.16.
Epbefianf,Chap.
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thing
in
our
fives,
out
of
himwe are nothing,
yea we
confeffe
that
it
is
not we, but his grace
in us
which doth
make
ús
grow
úp.
Againe when
we finde lacke
of
this
or that
grace, we mutt looke
to
Chrift by faith,
as
who
onely can augment it
in
us; the fpirit
is
with-
out
meafure on
him,
that
we
from
himmight receive grace for grace
.
in a
meafure
convenient.
This mutt
make
us refs
onely
in
Chrift,
caring
to know
nothing bat
Yf
2.
him, taunting all things dung and
droffe
in
compari
fen
of
him;
fill
your
Cori.
x
felves
with
Chrift,
and
there will be no roome for ought
elfe.
If
a
v
e'fi
Dicta
womans
heart be
full
of
her husband, the bath no roome
for other
feeke
to
be
lovers,
as
before
I obferved ; fo
(hall it
be with you,
if
you
fee
by
aai
of Chrift
faith
that
your eftate
is
full in
Chrift,
lacking
nothing, what
will
you
care
to
looke further
t
This
fhould invite
men
to Chriff,How
is
the
cafe
altered,
if
a
poore
Yfe
3.
woman
fhould
marry
a
Princes
the !hall
be no
leffe a Queen=
theft he
aking
:
Soif
we
blind,
naked, beggerly
things, marry
this Prince
of
glory,
our
poverty
shall
be exchanged
with
riches.
a. That
he
faith,
the
body
knit together]
with him, fay,
and
one
with Doti.
another,
receiveth
increafe
:
this
doth
teach us,
That
before
we
can
have
we
mull
be
anything
in
Chri
jI,
we
be
coupled
to him
: if
a
member be cut
of
joh
e
before
d
from the body,
it cannot receive any
thing from
the
head
:
fo
if
we be
we
rón
etc
not joynted with Chrift,
we cannot have
the
influence
of
that
life
of
ggrace
from
gracewhichcommeth from him,
a
lob. 5.
i
i.
This
is
the tefimony,
God
bath given
us
life, and
that
life
is
in
the
Sonne.
But
how
come
we,
or when,to
have
-its 1*
that bath
the
Sonne
bath
this
life.
But it
may
be objected,
our being
in
Chrift doth
nit
bring
-us
to'
objea,
this life, for there
are
branches.in
Chrift
dead and fruitleffe.
There
is a
double being
in
Chrift
and
knitting
with
Chrift;
the one
in
a
folabe
is
bythe
external!
bonds
of
profeffion: the
other by
an internal!
bond
ing
=brut,
of
atrueand
lively faith.
Now
our knitting
in
the
firft kinde
doth
byy
rofefiion
not
helpe,
but
in
the
fecond,
if
we be coupled
with
him our head,
nwaydor
ii.
we (hall receive increafc
from
him:If
a graffe
betyed to
a
ftocke with
a
thread,it
receiVeth
not the
fappe
of
the
ftocke, neither
is
it
fruitful!,
but
if
it
be
engraffed,
then
it
liveth
in
the
ftocke: fo it
is
betwixt Chrift
and us,
if by
a
lively faith we
be fet and
engulfed
into
him,
we
then
fhall live in
him.
Wherefore
as
we
would
live
with the
life
of Chrift,
fo we
mat
get our
Union with
him
through
a true
and lively faith. For
by
faith
Gerwe
rhie]
we
are united with
Chrift,
fo
that
we come
to
have
Communion
in
°n`on
wich
,him.
all
that
is
Chrifts
:
for even
as a graffe fet
into
a ftocke ,
partaketh
with
it in
the
fappe and life
of
it, and
as a
woman
now truely and law-
fullymarried
to
a
man, commeth
to
have promotion
in
him and
joynt
poffeffion
of
all
good thingswith him,
thuswe being truely one
with
Chrift,
have all
our debts anfwered by him, haveright
in his
righte.
oufneffe,
yea we receive
that
quickening Spirit
filing
into
us,
from
him
our head.
According
to
the
efficacie
which
is
in
every
pat
t.]
Obfetve,
Haw
that
Y
y
Chrift.
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