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Ephefiafht,
Chap.5.
E
tt.2.
VERSE
2.
r
Iolm;.c6,
them
fuch
a
heart
to
feave
me!
after the
afflietion
was
over, they
con-
temned
holineffe.
So many
in fickneffe and
troubles will
be godly
and imitate
God,
& leave
the
world, but
after
as finfull
and
like Satan
and the world
as
ever. You
(hall fee
flattering Parafites
that
will ferve,
honour
and
imitate
Kings and
great perfonages,
and
conforme'totheir
mindes and
wills,morethen their
naturali
children,but
not
with child.
like
hearts,
but with
bafe fpirits, for their bellies fake,
for
honour
and
profit
fake;
children doe fincerely,heartily, and naturally
affeíi to bee
like
their
parents,
and
love
their
fimilitude fimply
for it
felfe fake.
Had
we
faith to remove
mountaines, could
we fpeake
with
the
tongue
of
men and
Angels, were we
never
fo
much enlightened,
and had
ta-
fled
of
that
heavenly gift, and were made partakers
of
the Holy
Ghoft
and
of
the
powers
of
the wórld to
come,
if
we have
not
thole
vertues and graces communicated to
us
by regeneration,
as are
the
ftampes and impreflions
of
Gods
fatherly attributes regenerating
us
and
conforming
us
to
his divine
nature, all were
of
no
ufe for
any good
we
(hall
reape
by them.
The
ftrot geft reafon
to perfwade to
this
con-
formity with God
,
is
this,
becaufe he
is
Gods
childe and beloved
Sonneof God, not
his
Creature
alone
as
all
other. For
we mutt obey
God,
not
as
beafts, or
as
llaves and fervants,
but becaufe
wee
judge
our
felveshis
children
and
him
our
Father.
VE
R
S
E
z.
And
walke
in love, even
ao
Chrifl hath loved
ea,
and
bath given
himfelfe
for
tee,
to
be
an offering
and
a Sacrifice
of
a fweete
finelling
favour
to God.
Now
followeth the generaliexhortation,
Walke
in love,
that
is, let
love be
in
allyourdeedes and
workes
which God
bath prepared for
you to
walke
in
:
the
reafon
of
it
or
manner of it
is
fet
downe by
ex-
ample,or from comparifon
of
Chrifts
love
which
is
firft
propounded,
Who
lovedus.
z. Amplifiedfrom the
effe&,
andgave
himfelfe
for
us to
be
an offering
and
Sacrifice
of
a
fweete
finelling
favour
to God.
The
latter
words
are
fomewhat
difficult.
z. It may be asked,
What
it
is
to
give himfelfe
an offering
e
vinJia.
To
give himfelfeall to
death for
us
:
For giving
himfelfe
for
us, fignifieth
dying for us,
Gal. 2.
zÓ. Who
loved
me
and
gave
him-
felfe
forme
:
the
Scriptures make
Chrifls loveto
Rand in laying
down
his life.
Hereby
we
perceived
love
that
he
layd
downe his
life
for
ea.
Again,the Scripture knoweth
no giving himfelfe to
be an
oblation
without
fuffering,
Heb.
9.
25, 26.
z.
It
may
be
asked
of
the
difference
of
oblation and
Sacrifice!
Anfw.
The
firft anfwereth
to the meat.offering, the other to the
holocauft
:
the
firft
being
an
appurtenance
of
the other,
which was
the principali Sacrifice, and
therefore cannot be
a
type
of
the Popifh
abfoluteunbloodyfacrifice,
Icing it was
not
a
folitary
Sacrifice,
but
an
accefiarie
of
a
bloody
facrifice.
2,efl. Why
doth
he
rather
fpeake
thus then fay,
Chrift
loved
us
and dyed for
us
t
nfw.
Becaufe
he might
thus point
forth
Chrift
as
the body
and
fubftance