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Tit,a.t
t.
Eph.z.
Ephef.5.8.
We
tuft
reco.
ter our loft
time.
I
net.q.et3
Doïl.
ch
asare
called
to
faith
mull
not
be
sets
e.+o,
Jam.t.
ts.
y
fi
I.
Micter,
muff
call
off
the
ogodnforly
fmirom
n
cg
to
the world.
Ephefianl,
Chap.4.
V
II
R.
17.
men
to
repent. The
grace
of
God
bath
now
appeared
to
oilmen
,
teaching
us
to deny
all ungodline/Je
end
worldly
lulls ,
and
to
live
righteouJly
andfo-
berly
in
this
prefent world.
Reafón
I.
For firft, it
is
more to Gods
difhonour, and our own
dan-
ger,to
fin
after grace, for
God
will be
fandified
in all
that
come
time
to him,or
he wil
by
his
judgements
fanEtifie
hitnfelf
in
them,the
times
of ignorance
God
cloth
not
fo ftriétly looke
to.
z.
Wee
should
be worfe fervants to
God
and
holineffe,
then wee
were to
finne and
the Devill; for when
we were
in
the
flefh,
we
walked
after
the
Devill, and were
free men
from righteoufneffe.
3.
The
time
of
graceit felfeincludeth
aperfwafion,
for
it
is
a
day
wherein the
Sun
of
righteoufneffefhineth in our hearts,as the
time be.
fore our converfion was
a
night;now the
day
is
not for
works
of
dark
neffe,
but
of
light,
walke therefore as
children
afthe light.
4.
It
is
great injuftice
to
fpend
thetime after
grace in
the
tufts
of
our owne hearts:forwould
we
not
think ourfelves
wronged,if
having
hired
one to
work here or there
,
hee should goe
loyter
or fwaggerin
this
or that
blinde houfe
e
So
when we are called
by God
to know
him effeftually,
we
are
then hired to worke
in his
vineyard ,
to
worke
out our owne
falvation
with feare
and
trembling;
Now
what
injury
is
this
toftand
idling and yeeld our fervice
to the
Devill,
being
hired
with hilt'
!
The
ufc
therefore
is,
that howfoever
we have
fpcnt
the
time
here.
tofore, yet
we
would
not
henceforth continue any
finfull courtes
:
if
a
good husbandhath loft
an
bower or two,
he
will think
that
enough
for
that day,
he
will
ply
the remainder
of
time for the
finifhing
of
his
bufineffe,
fo
tuft
we
;
Let
it
fulfice
(faith
Peter)
that
the
time
pall
of
your
life
was mifbent
after the lullsofthe
Gentiles ova/king inwantonne
ffe,
in hills, in
drunkenneffe,
in gluttony,
andin
abominable
idolatries that
henceforth
we
live
after thewill
of
God.
Teewalke not
as
other
Gentiles.]
Obf.
That
wee
who
are
brought
to
faith
mull
not
live
like them
that have
not
fellowlhip
in
the
fame
grace.
Rom.I
a.
I
,a.
I
be
feechyou
by
the tender
mercies
of
God
that
you would
not
conforme your
felves
to
thefa/hions
of
the world.
And
Peter,
Ads
z.
biddeth the Chriftian Jews now converted, take heed,
and
favethem-
felves from the
other, who though they
were outwardly the
people
of
God,yet
he calleth
them
a
froward
generation.
And thus here
the
Apoftle doth
bid thefe Ephefians,
not
to
profefl'e as
others
profeffed,
nor to walke
like
other
men
of
the
world,
wholly
taken
up
in Peeking
and
following the
profits , pleafures and vanities
of
the world, inaf-
much
as
they were
chofen
out
of
the world
,
and
regenerated
by
the
word
oftruth,
that
they
might
be
as a firfi-
fruits of
his creatures.
This therefore
we mutt warne you
of,
that
ye walke
not
as
thofe
hat have no fellowthip
in
the
grace
of
God
:
What if
fome
live
brea-
king
the
Sabbath!What
if
they
negleâ
private exercifes
and
dutiesof
prayer
in
their
families
! What ifthey
make
no confcience
of
their
gaine
a
What
if
they jell
and
mock at better things
then they
will
imitate!