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Epheflan.t,
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513
The
fecond thing
that
he
faith, he teftifieth
in
the Lord, i.
e.
with
ftrength from
Chrift,as
in
the pretence
of
God
:
Obf.
What
we
#eak, Daïl.
we
mull
doe
it
as
in
the
fight,
as
from
God
enabling
rts.
So
the Apoftle,
W,00áóo
s
Cor.2.17.
As
of
fincerity,
hot as
of
God
in
the
fight
of
God.,
fleake
wee
infhe
Lords
in Chrifl; for
all our
ability
to
the
leafb
thing,
is
from
the
Lord,
we
cannot
power.
think
agoodthought;
and
the
letting
of
our felves
as in
the
fight
of
Chrift,doth
make
us
fpeake in all fincerity,Speake the
word as the Word
s
Per.4.
rr.
of
God.
We
mull therefore labour to
fee
that
all
our help
and fufficiency
Pfc.
ilandeth
in
the Lord, and
our (elves and
others
mull
therefore intreat
the Lord
to
enable
us
for thefe
things,
for which who
is
fufficient
.
forfake our owne
wifdome
and
become fooles, that God
may make
us
wife
through
faith
:
Goe not
to
any
duty
of
godlinefi'e
in
thy owne
ftrength, but
in
fenfe and
confcience
of
thy owne utter
inability,
let
upon it
in
and
by
the power
of
God.
Be
flrong
in
the
Lord and
in
the
Fph
6.m.
power
of
his
might.
That yee]
who
are
members
of Chrift,
would not,
&c;
this
word
yee
is
emphaticall and infinuateth from their prefent condition
in
the
slate
of
grace.
Obf.
To confider
who
now we
are,
muff
perfwade as toleave
our
Dolt
old
courfes
:
Our condition
to
which
faith
bathadvancedus,
is
a
great
me
wOhiehf}ehave
tive
to
avoid
the
evil
way
of
the world.
If
we could
hut feriouhyweigh
in Chrilt
mfe
and ponder with
our felves fpiritually and
powerfully
,
that
wee are
avale
with n:
members
of the
body
whereof Chrift
is
the
head,
that
wee are
the
old
way
:
:.r
temples of the
Holy
Gholl,
that
we are
a
peculiarpeople
,
a
royall
Priefthood, the Sons
of
God,
heires, even
joynt
heires
with
Chuff,
these
things would cloth
us
with new fpirits,
if
we could heartily dif-
cerne
them.
Every
one
that
ealleth
on
the
name
of
the
Lokd
Ufa
Chrifl,
a
Dm.,.,..
let him depart
from iniquity;EveryChriftìan
profefferh enough
to bind
him
to all holineffe.
If
yee
call him
Fat
her ,n'
ho
without
reJfrel?
ofperfons
a
Per.
:.rr.
judgeth
all
men,
pap
the time ofyourfojourning
here
in
feare.
To
fee
the
children
of
Nobles to
confort with
bafe ones,it degenerates
from true
Nobility,
and [laines
their
birth
:
So for
a
Chrifti
in
whofe defccnt
is
from heaven, borne
a
child
of God,a
member
of Chrift,
and an fiche
of
everla[tingglory, for fuch
a
one to
live
otherwife then becommeth
his
condition
to
which
he
is
advanced
in
Chrift,
is
moll
unbefeeming
his
holy profeffian.
Let
us
carry our
felves
anfwerable
to
our calling
and
condition
in Yfe.
Chrift,
let
us
beare
up
our
felves, take
upon
us
an
holy
flee
and place,
agreeable toour
birth
and priviledges we receive
in
Chrift
our head
:
not behave our
(elves like
beafts ;
They
that
are
Ghrii
is have
crucified
the
f
e
fh
with
the tufts
thereof.
That
ye
henceforth.]
Obf.
That
we
mull
not Mend
the
time after grace,
Doti.
as
the
time
before.
Or
thus
:
The
confederation
of
the time
pall mull
move
We
mote
not
us
unto
helineffe;
Thus
much the Apoftie giveth
us
to
confider, when
raPfecea,d"
.7
7
he
telleth them, that now
they
mull not doe
as
before they
had done
:
we
die
before.
But as
he
that bath
called
you is
holy,fo
be
ye holy
in
allmanner
of
cover-.
Per.r.s4,1t.
fatten.
The times
ofthat
ignorance
gad
winked
at,but
now
commandeth
ad
Alts 17.3o.
Y
y
3
men