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Ephefians,
Chap.
g,
V
2.
rfe3°
V
E
R.Z.
confumed by the
fire
of his Spirit,
that they
might
live
to
God;
thus
we are
exhorted,
Rom
I2. I.
I
befeech you
brethren
by
the
mercies of
God,
that
you offer up
your
fouler
and
bodies a
living
facrifice
acceptable
to
God.
We
fhould be
affedied like
Mofes
and Paul,
with our
¡elves ana.
thema
for
Gods
glory.
If
one fhould
ranfome
us
from the galbes, wee
would hold
our felves his
fervancs
for ever, fo,&c.
It
doth teach
us
that
we
muff
in Tome
cafes lay
downe
our lives
one for
another;
love
like
Chrift,
who
gave
his life
for
us, this S.
labn
inferreth, I
Ioh.
3.t6.
Hereby
we
perceive
love,
that
he
layd
downe
Ins
life
for
ass,
there
fore
ought
we to
lay
downe
our
lives
for
eur
brethren;
if
we
fee
their
foules in
jeopardy, we
may
with adventure
of
our bodily
life
reach
them the hand,
as in
the
plague
time,
when more profitable
members
are
indangered, we may
refcue them
from
evill
with
the
perill
of
our owne lives. Saint
Pawl
witneffeth
this,
Ram.
x
6.4.
(pea-
king
of
i.4quila
and Prifcilla, he
faith,
which for
my
life have
layd
downe
their
owne
necke.
So
in
the
naturall
body, the hand,though
it be
ftricken
quite
off, will put it felfe up
to
fave
the
head
:
for the com-
mon
good
likewife Heller went and put her
life
in
her
hand_
Yet
this
mutt be
knowneby way
of
caution,
that
though wee lay downe
our
lives,yet
it is
in
farre
other
manner
then Chrift
did
:
He
as a
mediator
prayed
and
dyed,to
fatisfie
the
punifhment which wedid owe
to Gods
Juftice.
2.
To
procure
all
good things for
us:
now
we doe there things for
fubffance,
but the propertie
is
altered, we pray
not
in
our owne wor-
thineffe,but
in
Chrifts; not
as an effct1
of
mediation, but
as
a
fruite
of
love;
we doe
notto
fatisfie
and redeeme and merit,
but
to
ftr.ngthen
the faith
of
others
in
him
who
hath made fatisfaâidn for them;
thus
Peter was
crucified
and
Paul
was
beheaded,
and
for the Church
in
this
laft
fenfe,
Col.
5.24.
But
in
the
firft fenfe
we may fay,
Was
Peter
or
Paul crucified for
you?
r
car.
r.
13.
We
mutt then imitate
Chrift
in
laying downe our
lives one
for
another, though the quality
of
the
aétion
is
farre
other
in
us,
then
it was in
him. It principally concer-
neth
Paltors
and
Teachers, this
being the property
of
a
good
fhep-
heard,
to
lay
downe
his life
for
his
flocke.
This dothlet
us
feeto
our comfort how
we may
gather whether
we
are
beloved
of
God;
viz,
if
we feele our felves intereffed
in his
death.
z. That
he
is !'aid
to give himfelfe unto death
:
Obferve
hence,
How
Chrift
lefts,' our
Lard did
willingly
and
readily fnbmit
to
his
fife-
rings;
he laid
downe
his life, it was
not
taken from him by violence,he
faired
becaufe he
would, he humbled
himfelfe
to the
curled
death
of
the
croffe.
For though
he knew
of
his fufferings
before, yet
hee did
not withdraw himfelfe, or
feeke
places
to
lurke
in,
but
went
to the
garden
as
he
was accuflomed.
2.
The
ftrong voyce he
gave
immediatelybefore
his
death,
did
fig-
nifie
that
there was more
then
a
naturali
power
yeelding
up
the
hu-
mane nature totafle
death.
It