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Ephefians
Chap.
4.
Vs
R.22.
Pr.
Wee inufi
la-
bour
for the
fpirituall.
Doe.
Chrift
oncly
can
teach us
inwardly by
his
Spirit.
Afts
x6.14.
41at.z;.8.
Yfe.
er.31
S.f.
VERS.
22.
Deli.
They
have
truly learned
Chrift who ate
truly
fandi-
fied.
Gal
r.aa,
z
Cor.
r.
r
r.
Phil,;,to.
This
therefore being
fo
, it
behoveth
us
not
to
content
our
felves
with
every learning, or
knowledge, but to
get this lively knowledge.
What
good
doth that knowledge which
affeeteth
not the
heart
to o-
bedience+ it
maketh
us
be
beaten with many ftripes,
as
who
know
the
will
of
our Mafter and doe
it not. Let
us
knowheavenly
things
as
we
doe
earthly, for the
end of our
knowledge
in
them
is
adtion;If
I
know
this
or that to be
good
forme,
I will get it.
If
I
know
fire
touched
will hurt me,
I
will
not
come necre
ir.
Here alto
muff
be marked,who
doth
teach
us
this true knowledge
;
If
yee
have heard
him and have
been
taught
by
him, i.e.
Chrift.
Whence
obferve,
Though
we
have
many
leachers
, yet
it
is
Chrift
hirrifelfe
that
teachtth
us
inwardly and
(lethally
by
the
Spirit
:
Thef
e
Ephefians had
Paul
and
other ordinaryTeachers, yet
he
that taughtthem that
effetfuall
lear-
ning
is
laid
to be
Chrift
t
The
voyceofthe
Son
o
f
God is
it
that
doth
?wife
us
up
from the death
of
fin,
to
the
life
of
righteoufncffe.Chrift opened
the heart
of
Lydia,
that
is, did reach her
inwardly
,
when
Patel
did
teach
her outwardly. And
Luke
24.32.
He
opened
the underflandings
of
his
Di
fciples,
and
made
their
hearts
to
burne
within
them.
We
are but
pety
Ufhers,
it
is
Chrift that
is
the chicle Scheolemafter
in this
fchoole,
he
is
the
Doelor of
the chaire, whom we
muft heare,
before
we
can
learne any thing
to
purpofe;
One
is
your
Dotlor,even
Chrift.
Paul
may
plant,
and
Apollos may
water
,
it
is God
taely
thatgiveth
en-
creafe.
Wherefore
this
doth
warne
us
whom
wee
fhould feeke when wee
come to be taught, we muft
feeke
Chrift
in
the Temple. And
becaufe
that
men
feeke
not
this
Teacher,therefore
they
are
Idoli
hearers,
have
eyes and
fee
not,
cares and heare
not, for they lift not
up
their
foules
to
have him teach
them, who
is
the Eye
of
the blinde, the
tongue
of
the dumb, the
care
of
the deafe. And the rather
we
mufifeeke to
him
becaufe this
is a
thing promifed to
us,
ve
fhall
be
all
taught
of
God.
,
Wherefore
we muff fay
to
Chrift with the Church,
when
we
come
to the
Aflembli
s,
Lord
letasfee thy
face
and heart
thy
voyct,
for
this
voyce
is Tweet,
thy voyce
is
plea
faut.
VERSE
22. That
le
%
that
ye
cafe
of
concerning the
eonverfation
i,
time
paft,
the old man, which
is
corrupt
through the
deceivable
lofts.
Now
hee
commeth toexplaine who they
are
that
have
learned
Chrift
as
thetruth
is
in
Chrift,
Poch as
are
fanBtified,
that
is,
mortified
in
regard
of
fin
full
lufts,and quickned
to
righteoufneffe
and holineffe.
Whence two
things are
to
be marked
in
general' before
we come
to
the particular
confiderations.
I.
Who they
are
that
have truly learnedChrift,
they
that
are truly fan-
Rifted through the
Spirit
of
Chrift ;
They
whofefinne
bath
received
a
deadly
wound,whofefoules
are
regenerate.
Gal.
5.22.
They
that
are
Chrifis, have
crucified the flelh
with the lolls
thereof.
And
as
this place
fheweth death to
frnne
to
follow
upon being
in
Chrift,
fo
the
Apoftle
tclleth
us,
that
whofoever
is
in Chrift
ti
a
new
creature.
And
the Apoftle
maketh
this
the true knowledge
of
Chrift
to know
experimentally
the
vertue