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5;S
I.
The
means
whereby
we
get
increafe
in
the newcrea-
ture.
2.
z
Pet.s.4.
Mat.zf.
}y.
The
degrees
of
putting
oath:
new
creature.
,Epbefians,
Chap.4.
V. a
R.24,
3.
The
adtion
whereby the cloathing
is
applyed
to the
body,
viz.
the
putting
on.
So here are
three
things anfwerable.
2.
The
cloathing with
the
divine quality
or
hidden man
of
grace.
2.
The
foule,which
is
the thing
principally
to
be cloathed.
3.
The
fitting upon
us,
Or
the applying
of
this
to
our
foules,
by thofe
means
which
in
the next
place we are
to
reckon
up.
So
that
to
put
on
the
new
man
is
,
to
get
fetkd
upon
our
foules the
divine
qualities which
make
the
manta new man,
that
is, touching
di-
vine qualities
throughout renewed.
We
muft
fo
grow
up
into Chrift,
that not we, but Chrift
may be
every
where
from top to toe
fcene to
live
in
us;
this
is
fembled by the
adtion
of
putting
on,
which doth
fo
cover the
body,that
notthe
body,but the
rayment only
is
difcernable.
Now
for
the
fecond,
Wee
come
by
three
meanes
more
and more
to
be
cloathed with
this
garment.
I.
By
feting where we
are naked,
efpying where our foulesare uncovered.
2.
We
mutt come
and
buy
thefe things: Itevel.3.
t
8.
I
count-ill
thee
to
buy
of
me
goldtried
by
the
fire,
that
thon maifl
be
made
rich,
and
white
Payment,
that
thou maieft
be clos.
thed,&c.
Now
we buy
of
God without money,the
thing
is
thus,
God
fetteth forth thefe things
in
the word ofpromife
,
when
wee by
be-
liefe
reach
them and apply them
to
our
felves, then
wee
make pur-
chafe
of
them.
If
we will give
God
any thing, then hee
dealeth by
way
of
exchange with us; he
doth
with
us
to furrender to him ourold
robes, and for thefe he giveth
us
new
rayment, we
are made
partakers
of
the
divine nature,
having
fed
from
the corruption which
is
is
the world
through lufi:
the foreskin
of
thefe Philiftims are the oncly
current
money with our
God.
We
come
by
exercifing our felves
in
well -doing
to be more
and
more cloathed with the grace
of
the
Spirit
:
for
he
that bath (that
is,
that
fo
hath grace that he
doth
husband it)
be
(hall have
more,
but
hee
that
path
not, (that
is, fo
hath
it,
that
he
doth not
ufe
it,
like him
that
hid
thetalents)
even
that
he
bath
/hall
be
token away.
For
the third thing, we doe put on this new
man
:
I.
By
beginning
to
be new creatures.
2.
By
proceeding in it.
'3.
By
receiving it
perfet
ted
in
us,
when
we
(hall be
filled with
the
fulnefle
of
God.
The
ufe
of
it
to
us
is,
that
as
we will have
affurance
that
we
have
truly learned Cbrifl,
fo
we
muft put on
a
new
nature
;
if
we havebeen
fierce,
covetous,
fenfuall, we
mutt put
on
us
meekneffe, laying afide
wrath, we mutt put
on heavenly mindedneffe, contentation,holinetfe.
We
can
never
look that our
foules and
bodies
fhoúld be
clothed with
glory,
if
here
they put not
on
the clothing
of
grace.
2
Cer.5.4.
We
would
not
be
uncloathed
but would
be
cloathed
upon,
that
mortality might
befwallowed up
of
life.
And this
fpirituall
cloathing
of
grace
fhould
dwell with
us
continually, we fhould lying downe
and
putting off
our
cloathes,