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Doff.
Chriltworketh
in
usaccording
to the
place we
have ìn the
body.
Vfe 1.
Vfe2.
Doe.
We mull
in-
creafe
our
grace
we have,
and build
up
others with
it.
Meaner ro edi-
fie
one
ano-
ther.
Hcbao.u4.
i
Pet.;.z,t.
tiebto.
i.;'.
Ephefians,
Chap.q..
V
g R.
16.
Clsrift worketh
in
us
according
to
that
place
we
ruftaine
in
his
body.
So the
foule
worketh
in
the
body that
it
giveth
each member
that
encreafe
onely which
is
proportionable
and
fitting
to it; both
in
refped
of
the
neceffities
of
our particular callings, and
as
is
agreeable
to
the
capa-
city
of
every one, being
fuch
and fuch members
in
the
Myflicall
body.
The
which confideration that
we have increafe
but
for
one member,
muff
make
us
carefull
and
tender
of
keeping communion
with
all
our
fellow members, for
if
the eye
can
but
fee,
if
it
will have the hand
handle for
it, the foote
goe for
it, then
itmuff keepe
with
the
hand and
foote.
It doth
comfort
us
that whatfoever
wants
be in us,
yet we
(hall re-
ceive
that growth
which
is
fit
for
us
:
for
as
if the parts shoote out
be-
yond
meafure, fo
if
they
be fhrunke
in
more then due,
it
is
a blemish
and
imperfeetion,fuch
as (hall
not
befall
that body which hath
neither
fpot norwrinkle, but
is
every way perfect.
Receiveth
encreafe
to edifie
it
felfe.
]
Obf.
What
we
mu;
doe
with
the
grace
we
receive
from Chrift,
we
mull
increafe
further,
and build
with
it
grace in
our
feelves,
and
others.
He
that
bath
moll
muff fo
ufe
it that
he
muff make it
more
:
and
everyprivate Chriffian
is
bound to
impart
the grace he bath to
the good
of
others.
Edje
your
flves
in
your
moft
holy
faith,
Jude
ao. Which
is
fpoken to private
Christians,
teaching
them what they
are
todoc
one to
another.
Of
this
3.
things,
r.
By
what
meanes
we
are
to
edifie
one
another.
2.
Ho'
this canbe
a
duty belonging
to
private
Chrilians,fee-
tngthey
are
the building, the
Ministers
of
the Word
are
thebuilders.
3.
The
Ufe.
r.
The
meanes are
the
duties
which
tend to edification,
and
they
are
of
two
forts
:
Either
fuch
as
prepare us.or goe before;
Or
fuch
as are
joyned with the
effeét it felfc.
The
thing that
prepares us,
is
the diligent obferving
and marking
one
ofanother.
Confider
one
another:
for though to
pry into others,
that
we may have
a
hole
in
their
coat;
and
know how to
take them
downe,
is
a curious playing
the bufie.body; yet
for good purpofe
ro
marke one
another,
is a
frutte
of
Chrifrian love.
The
duties
bywhich
we helpe
forward
one another
are
in
deede, or word. For
by
good
example we build one
another,
yea
thofe that
are without. Hereupon
the Apoffle
exhorteth wives
to
be
in
fubjetlion
to
their
owne
hrubands,that
if
any
obey
not the Word, they
may
without the Word
be woo
by
the good
couverration
of
the
wife.
By
Word,
partly by inffrueting, admonifhing,
by
provoking, exhor-
ting
one
another,by
reproving,
Levit.
19.
17.(..244t.
18.1$.
by comfor-
ting,
r
Mel.
4.
ult.
And by
these we
doe not oncly
increafe and
con
-
firme grace
in
fuch
as
hand,
but
rejlare
fuch
asarefallen,
Gal.
6.1.
For.