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Doff,
&inne
is
an
unfatiable
thing.
Dem.zg. tq.
rye
r.
2.
Ero.14.3
z.
Rom.
6.
VERS.
20.
Doti.
True
learning
of
Chrift will
not Rand with
worldly con
-
verfarion.
n
Pct.
L.
t0.
Tit.z.
11,1z.
Ephefians
Chap.
q..
Vaa.2o.!
an unfatiable
thing;
r, draweth
men
at
length
to
be
greedily addit1ed
to
it
Efay
5.
18.
They
drawfinne
forward
with
Cords
of
vanity,
Jer.6.8.They
went
to
their
courfis
ao
a
horf
to
the
battaa.
This
is
threatned
under
the
termes
of
adding
drunkennes
to
thirfl;for
it
is as
a
dropfe that
the more
we drinke
of
it, the more we thirft
after
ir.
Therefore
we
mull
ferve it
as
we doe
agues, give it not that it
cra-
veth,
for
that
is
the next way to be
rid
of
it.
Seeing finners are thus
hot
in
following
finne,
it
muff
teach
us
to
take occafion
to
purfue diligently after
righteoufneffè;
then wee
make
good
ufe
of
viewing the
fieldof
the
fluggard;
if
they
ferve the
de-
vil! in
fo
ill a
worke,
and
for
fo ill
wages, how then fhould we ferve
God
in righteoufne
fe,
ehe
end whereof
is
everlafting life?
VERSE
2o.
But ye
have
not
fo learned Chrifl.
Now
the
Apoftle
removeth
thefe things from thefe
Ephefians
to
the 25.
verfe.
r.
He denyeth them
of
thofe that
had learned
Chrift.
2. He
excepteth
orputteth
in a
caution,how he wouldbe
con-
ceived
of
whatkinde
of
learning he
would
be
underftood;
if
you
have learned Chrifi
as the
truth
is
in Chrifi,
that
is,
as
the true being, or
as
thofe
have learned him
who
are
truely
in
Chrift,
not
in Phew
and profeffion onely.
3.
He
expoundeth what he meaneth by this
kinde oflearning,
viz.
fuch
learning,
as
goeth with
true fanétification
of
us;
which hath z.
parts fet
downe.
t.
Our
Mortification.
2.O
ur
Regeneration.
Firfi we
fee in
this 20. verfe, he
doth oppofe the learning
of
Chrift
to the
blindneffe, hardneffe
of
heart,
Tufts
of
the Gentiles,
as
a
thing
which would
not ftand
withthem;
which doth
let
us
fee;
That the
knowledge
of
Chri
fl
will net
hand
with
worldly converfation
:
you
have
not
thus learned
Chrift;
as
if
he fhould fay,
if
you have
learned
Chrift
as
you ought, you
have
not to doe
any
more
with
thefe
wayes,
z
Pet.z.2o.
this
is
made
an
effeEt
that followeth
on
knowing our
Savi-
our
Chrift,
We efcape
from thelilthineffeof
the world
:
and he
that
lear-
neth that
the grace hringeth
salvation,
it
will teach him
to
denyangod-
lineffeand
worldly
lufts,
and
to
live
godly
and foberly
and
righte-
oufly
in
this prelent
world. For looke
as
when the
funne rifeth,
the
darkeneffc
is
difperfed; So when
this funne
of
righteoufneffe
doth
rife
in
our
hearts,the
darkeneffe
of
finne
will be difperfed
in
us.
Wherefore
fuch
as
with their
learning
let
no lelfe on
the
fcore
of
luft
then
heretofore,they
have
not
as
yet
learned
Chrift
as
they
ought;
What
communion hath
Chrift
and wickednef
a
if
ever thou hadit
rightly
learned
Chrift,
it
would teach thee
to
abhorre
thy former
finfull tufts,
they would not
have
that
vigour
and
ftrcngth that
was
ufuall,
but the power
of
them
is
weakned and over- ruled. And thou
(halt
find
fomething
now-that
was
not
in
thee
before:
So that
though
thou
deeft
evill,yet not fo much
as
thou didlt before,and thou dolt the
good thou didit not before.
Thou
wilt be
of
another
mind thenhere-
tofore