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Ephefian,r
Chap.g..
V
gR.3t,
rfe
2.
Outward
mat-
ters
cannot
af-
fure
us
of
Cal
-
vation.
Rom.1. ag.
e
.
We
mull
feeke
and keep the
holy Spirit
with
fpeciall
care.
Doti.
Our
redempti-
on
is
not
here
fun.
Prov.4, 18,09.
Luke
11.18.
VERS.
31.
that teacheth
us
that
we may
lofe
all
grace,
it
doth
make
our
falvati-
on
as
uncertaine,
as
if
it were
not
indeed and effectually fealed; when
I
am
molt
necre
it
,
it
is
but
a
peradventure
,
fall
of
doubtful!
uncer-
tainty.
Again,here we
fee
that
no outward
thing
can fo
affure us
that
we
may
reft
in
it,
it
is
the
Spirit
of
God
which
doth
feale us, and
afl'ilre
us
of
our full
redemption,
we are ready
to
'cane upon
reeds
that
will
breake
and
faite us. Numb.
t 6.3.
All
the
people
of
God
are
holy ;
the Temple,
the
Temple.
we
are thechildren
of
Abraham.
Thefe
outward matters
men
have alwayes prefumed
onto
their deftruttion
:
For it
is
notCircumci-
fion
without,
but
it
is
inward, that
is
Circumcifion before
God;
it
is
not our outward profeffion, nor our external!
fervices
,
nor our
being
baptized,
but it
is
the Spirit
of
God
in
us,
enlightning
us,
and
fanttì-
lying
us, which
onely can give
us
affurance
that
wee
are
Gods,
and
heires
of
falvation.
Rom.
8.
t
ç.
The
Spirit bearethwitneyewith
our
fpl-
rits,thas
we
are the children
of
God.
This
doth
let
us
fee
with what
carewe fhouldkeepe and
feeke
the
Spirit
of
God,
for wee do keep
our
leales
boxed
up
that they
may
not be broken:
and
if
we have
Deeds
of
any
moment
drawn
that
wit
he
very beneficiali
to
us,
we will
not be quiet till the
Peale
be
paffed
:
So fhould wee feeke
the
Spirit
by
prayer
,
by
comming to
his Ordi-
nances,
by
careful! and diligent
obedience, that
wee may
have our
confciences fealed, fully
affured
of
our full redemption.
Suppofe we
were all malefactors, and
the
King fhould fend
word that
at
the
Afii-
fes
all
of
us
that had not the great
Seale
to fhew,
fhould fuffcr, but
the
other
fhould
be received
to
grace,
and
rcltored
to their liberty: foit
is
with
us.
Laftly, that
he faith,[To
the
day
of
redemption,]
It
doth let as
fee
that
we
have
not our
full
redemption
as
yet: our
life
is
fuch
that
the belt
is
laft,
the
deeper we goe
in
itthe
Tweeter. The
way
ofthe
righteous
is
like the
Sun whichdoth
Thine
brighter and brighter
to
full
f
rength,
whereas
the
way of
the
wicked
is
like
to
travailers
that
have
a
timely
fhine when
they
are
letting forth, but
when they are
a
little gone
on it thickens,
andturnes
to Clouds
and
ftormes
;
though
it fmoake a
little
awhile,
we fhould
comfort
our felves
in
this,
we
!hall
have a blaze
anon
:
Re-
joyce,foryour redemptiondraweth xeere.
V
E R
S
E
3t.
Let
ad
bitterneffe,
and wrath,
and anger, and
clamour,
and
eviläfpeaking
be
put
away
from
you
with
all
malice.
Now
followeth
a
Precept forbidding wrath particularly,
amplified
by another
commanding
the contrary:
the wrath
is
double, that
which
is
lefib Browne,
in
the
firft
part, or that which
is
fctled, in
the
tail,
with maliciaafnefe.
The
firfl is
fee
slowne
as
it
is
in
the
affection.
The
fecond
as
it
is
in
the
Word.
In the affection
a threefold di-
flemper,
1.
Bitternefîe.
2. Fierceneffe.
3.
Wrath.
In