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.24,
é'phefiana,Chap.4.
535
a. For the words,
What
it is
to
pat
on
the
new
man
?
Anfw.T
o
get into
the
divine
nature,
and to
grow
up
in
the graces
of
the
Spirit
to
perfection.
a.
Which
is
created
according
to
God
that
is,
whichby
no
lefTe
then
a
creating power
is
glorioufly framed
in us
after the
Image of
God,
Cal.
3.1o.
3.
It
may be
asked,What
is
meant
by
righteofneffe
and
holineffe!
Anfw.
Some by
rightcoufnefe
underftand
the quality
of
juftice in
us, which maketh
us
doe
whatfoever
is
juft
toward the creature.
And
holineffe,
they
take
for
a
divine quality
whereby
we exercife and
per
-
forme
religious
offices
toward God
:
But
the
Scripture
is
not favo-
rable
to
this diftinEtion,
for
Rom.
r.
r
8.
this
is
made unrighteoufneffe
in
men
that
they praife
not,
and are
not
thankfull
to God,
and therefore
by Law
of
contraries,
righteoufneffe
is
to be extended
to the Creator
as
well
as
the
Creature,
as
the Scripture putteth
holineffe
as
well
in
doing
things
one with
another,
as
in duties
about
God.
That
you may
learne
to
poffeffe
your
veffelr in holinefe
and
honour.
I take it therefore
that thrfe
vertues mutt be taken
in
their latitude
and full
extent, righ-
teeufnefe,
noting forth
a
divine
quality whereby wee performe what-
foever
is
our duty to
God
and
the Creature
:
Hauneffe,
is a
divine
qua.
lity which
in
our felves,and our
duty to God
and men , excludeth
all
fpot
of
corruption ;
It
is
auniverfall purity
,
which taketh away
and
denieth
the
leaft
mixture
ofluft;
and
it
is
as
generall
as
the other.
It
is
further
faid
holineffe
oftruth;
which might
be taken
as
noting
theinftrument begetting holineffe,
lohn 17. 17. Sanllifie
them
with
thy
truth,
thy
word
is
truth
: But here
it
mutt
be
taken for
foundneffe
for
as
righteoufneffe and holineffe are
oppofed
to
lulls
:
So truth
is,op-
pofed
to
deceicfulnefïe.
The
fumme
of
the words
is
:
Tom
that have
hectic
trulytaught Chrifi, and have learned Chri
fi
,
fo
as
to
put
off
cor-
ruption,
fo to
get your
felves
throughout cloathed with the
divine
quality, with the grace
of
the
Spirit, which
is
by
the almighty power
of
God,
framed after the example
of
God
himfelfe , and ftandeth
in
noexternall things
,
but
in
righteoufneffe and holineffe, and
not
in
every kind
of
there, but
in
fuch righteoufneffe and holinefi'e,as
is
found
and fincere.
Here
therefore,
1.
We
muff
confider
;
That
every
one
that
is
a
true
fcholar
of
Chrifi,
muff
put
on
the
new
man
,
muff more
and
more
get
him
-
felfe
cloathedwith the grace
of
the
Spirit,
which
is
a
anew creature
in
the
heart.
To
amplifie
it
by the fame coafiderations wherewith wee did
illuftrate
the puttingoffthe
old
mans
1.
We
muff fee
what
it
is.
2.
By
what
meanes
we come
to
put it
ofd.
3. By
what degreesthis
is
done
in u<.
For the
firft ,
It
is a
borrowed
fpecch from
bodily putting on
of
garments, in which three things
are
to be marked
:
a.
There
is
the body cloathed.
a.
The
garmentcloathing.
Aaaa
;.The
Concerning
the
differ
ente
between
righ-
reoufnelfe and
holineffe:
í
Thcf.+.4.
What
h
ho-
finds
of
truth:
D.11,
Chrifs
Echo.
lar mutt put
on the new
mais.
What
it
is to
put on
the
new
ctedture.