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V
E
R.
9.
Sphefians,Chap.
5.
For the
new
quality (which
Peter
calleththedivine
nature)
is
the
tree
of
right eoufneffe, and
our works the
fruits:
We
fee
then,
s.
That
where
DIET,
ever
the
grace
of
God
is,there will
be
works or
fruits
of
grate;
and
a.
there
will
be
the
particularfruites
here named.
For
the
firft
grace;
as
finne
is
a
law
in
the
unregenerate man, fo
grace
is a
law that
doth command
fubjeCtion
to
it. Againe,
it
is
like-
ned
to
a
leaven:
to
a
tree which being
good,
cannot be fevered from
the
fruit: it
is
the
life
of
God, ifyou
live in
the
fpirit: now while
the
life
of
the
body
is
in
the
body, there
will
be breathing,moving,
&c.So
in
the
foule
thefe cannotbe fevered, therefore he faith,
if
ye livein
the
fpirit,walkin it.
Wherefore
this muft be noted againft fuch
as
doe
deceive
them-
yf
r',
felves,thinkingthey have the Spirit
of
God,but
yet they
have no fruits:
It
is
well
if
many
of
us
doe
not
mock our
felves
this way,for weper-
fwade our
felves
that
we have
theSpirit,yet
no faith,no temperance,no
patience,meeknefl'e,love,
joy,c&c.
S:cing the
grace
and fruites
cannot be feparate, it
doth warne
us,
aï
that
we
would br
finites
forth the
u
of
grace ,
if
we will
affure
our
confciences
that Gods
grace
is in
us; if we
be true
trees
of
rightouf-
nef
ï'
e, we will belike
good trees, which though they have their
win-
tering,
yet
when the fpringcommeth
that
the fanne fhineth favoura.
bly,then
they
will
bud and bloffbme
:
fo
let
us,
though
in
time
of
temptation grace may gather
to the roote
more, yet let
us
with the
fira
occafions
of
Gods
favourfhining
to
us, bee
ready to
!hew
our
finites.
We
are like
the
vine
in
Fray,
our
grapes
are fourre,
or
we
beare
nothing,
an
Empty
vine.
It
is
a fearefull
thing not
only
to
be
taken
With ill
finite,
butto
have nothing but
leaves and
without good
fruite;
God
(hall
ferve us,
if
we
fo
continue,
like
the
figcree,
cut
us
downe
in
difpleafure. And let
us
nor
thinks
we have flood thus
long, we
have
had no hurt
yet,
for
this
is
a
token God
is
comming
againft us;
for
when
he had
forborne the
figtree
three yeares,
and had no fruite,
then
he
faid
not,lt
bath flood thus
long,
let it ftand still,
but
becaufe
I have
Keene
patient thus
long,
and have
no fruir, therefore,
I
will
cut
it
Luke:
ì:
downe.
2.
By
the
way from this,
that
workes
are called
[fruite,
]
we may
note how
acceptable
they
are
to God
:
for we
fee
how,
when we plant
a
thing, we expect
the
truite long before, and accept it, and
it
is
fweete
to
us,
when
it
commeth.
Forget
not
the
workes
of
mercy,
for
with
flab
Neb.
i;.
:6.
things
God
is
well
?leafed.
The
ad.
thing is,that
the
Spirit
path
there
fruiter in
particular
werkes,
D.
,
full
of
all
goednef: To
open
them.
Goodneffe
is
a generall
Word
that noteth
all
kinde
of
vertue, compare Exed.33.
t
9.with Exod.34.6.
But efpecially
let
it
note here
meekeneffe, bountifulneffe, pureneffe,
againft
that wrath,
againft
the
covetous with holding
the
finites
of
mercy,
againft uncleanneffe;
RighteouJneffe,
noteth jufticein
our dea-
ling
with
all
men, again('
that
covetoufneffe
:
Truth,
either the
truth
!offpeech and promife,
or the
truth
of
things ;
againfi
the
deceitful
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