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Éphefians
Chap.5.
VER.S,
he may
(ht
hopes)
have
both,
Tooke
after
both
well enough.
!tnf.
None
can ferve
two
mailers,
fuch
as
command contrary
things,
as
God
and
covetoufneffe
doth: God faith,
Commit your
wayes
tome, in
Philip.
4.6
Nothing
be
careful!,
either diftruflingly, or with
Inch
double
diligence
as
caufeth
to
refl
in
your
own,:
praétifes, looking
no further: Cove-
roufneffe fai.th,you
cannot make things too fare. God biddeth, Ftrfl
Mat,
6.;;;
feeke the
kingdom of
God,Leve
God
with
ally
our
beart;Give
to the ponte
plentifully:
Covetou(neffe injoyneth the contrary.
We
cannot
have
both;he that
followeth two
Hares
catcheth neither:
and
filch
we
fee
that
grapple
coo
much,
let fall all.
If
heaven will
not
fill
your
hearts,
take
heede you lofe
not both
heaven and
earth.
P.
Thinke now
and confider
what
you do
that thus
moyle after
earth,
what
good husbands you are; Are you not penny
wife and
pound
foo-
lifh,
when you get
a
little fading
fubftatwee
and lofe
your
everlafting
inheritance
e
What if
you could get the whole world
and
lofe
your
fouler
Sothinke,whatdoe
your voluptuous,
uncleane delights
and
carnali merriments get
your
they put you
by the delight of
Angels,
that
fulneffe
of
joy
in
the fight
of
God. How
like
Elam
you arer
for
pottage
you part
with birth
-
rights
:
thinke
not this
a
little thing,
to
be
flint
out from
Gods
Paradife.
Oh
it will fling
worfe
then hell.
We
fee
it
is
more
irkefome to
us
to
fee
our
felves
Phut
out for wranglers
w'c,en
others
are taken
to this or
that,then
to
fuftaine
great
punifhmenr.
What
thorne then
(hall
this be to your eyes, when you
fhall fee
men
that you
mocked for
precifeneffe, becaufe they
would not
fpot
them.
felves
with
your filthineffe,
taken into
the
everlafting
kingdom-,
and
your
felves
debarred
r
VERSE
6,7.
VERSE.
6,
7. Let
no
man
deceive
you
with vaine
words;
fir
becaufe
of
thefe
things
commeth
the wrath
of
God
upon
the
children
of
difibe.
dience.
Be not
therefore
partakers with
them.
Now
he
commcth to goe over with the
reafon againe, preventing
all
that
falfe teachers whifpered
to
she
contrary:
the
verfe
layeth
downe z. things
:
r. The
meeting with
all
fuch vaine
words
as
might
beare them
in
hand, the matter
was
otherwife.
2.
The
furtheraggravating theformer
denunciation.
There
is
nothing needeth expofition
greatly:
a
vaine
word
is
every
word that
excufeth finne, or fecureth
us in
regard
of
Gods
judge-
ments
:
the Apoftle therefore cutting downe with the !word
of
the
Word,thefe
things
that
liftthemfelves
up againft
the power
of
God;
doth
give
us
to
confider
of
the power
of
the
W
ord,Fleb.4,
r
z.Ii
is
/har-
per then
a
two.edged
fword,and divideth
between
tbejoynts
&
the marrow,
and
is
adi
f
errer
of
the thoughts
and
intents
of
theheart,
z
Cor.
t
o.
4.
It
rafts
demise
all high imaginations and
every
fang
hold,
&c.
A!ain,
giving
warning
of
falfe
teachers,
he
dothjet
us
that
are
prea-
chers
an
example
of
fidelity. But
the things to
be marked
principally
are
thefe.
r.ThatI