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Doli.
Ephefiaru,
Chap.
5.
V
E
R.25.
we
muff
fay,
it
was fo indeed ,
but
fence
by
faith
we gave our
hearts
to Chrift,
he
is
to
anfwer it. So
if
a
woman
will not
doubt but
the
fhall
findefavour with her husband,
though
fix
hath made fome little
default ;
fo
we
much more while
we
play not
falle ,
but
keepe
the
loyal] faith
of
our
heart to
him alone.
Laftly,
if
the can
comfort
her
felfe
that
her husband
doth
bears at one
end
of
her burdenwith her,
howmuch
more muff this refrefh
us
that
we have fuch
a
husband,
as
knoweth how
to
be touched with our infirmities
Now
he
doth
Phew
this love
of
Chrift to
his
Church
from the
e1
fed of
it,
He
gave
himfelfe
for
her;
Obferve then
,
How
thrift
as
he
lo
veth
not
with
the love
ofa
husband
any but
his Church
;
fo
bee
pate
bimfelfe
for
any but his
Church. Men were
wont to
give down.:
their wives,as Saul had for Micall, and men
doe not
give dowries. no
make
joytrturesbut to her they marrie
:
So the Lords
downs
is
him-
f
elfe, his
joynture
is
the kingdome
of
Heaven,the one given,the other
made
fure
to
none butthe
wife
of
the
Lamb, E
fay
8.
Luke
r.
Mat.
r.
his
people,
loh.3.
believing
ones ,
¡oh.,
5. his
friends,
vlíis
zo.
his
Church
redeemed with
his
blood.
Two
things will clears this
truth.
I.
That
the Commandement Chriff
received from
the Father,was
notto
doe
that
which might
be
fufficient,
but todoe that which might
raife
thofe to glory
who
were given
to
him,and this he
did according-
ly,
loh.6. 39.
14.17.4.
for
their
fins
werefatisfied, all
fpirituall
blef-
fings
porcured,
and
the
thing prefently
and
infallibly
to
be
applied,
as
if
it had
been
done already.
2.
He
that
did
not
let all come
in his
prayer
, did
much
felfe
let
them
have
part
in
his
Paffion,
now loh.17.9.
Chrift
did
not
pray for
the world.
Exceptions
are made
two
wayes.
objell.
Firff,
to
the fecond part, he prayed not effeétually,
as
for
his
owns,
elfe
Luke
23.38.
and
Efay
53.uíí.
he prayed
for them.
t.
nfw.
r.
This
is
to be
mifliked
thatthey
give
Chrift
an ineffeéfu-
all
prayer,contrary to that
is
teftified,loh.
Ih.
2
2.
What
ever thou askeft
thou
received.
z. He was
heard
in
that
he prayed.
2.
The
inffances are
falfe, for
Chrift
prayed not for the
world,but
for thofe
who ignorantly did
that which
was
done,
whom
bee
taw
might
be
converted;
and
if
Chriff
had
not prayed
fo gracioufl y,Peters
Sermon would not have
beene fo
fruicfuf
l
:
and
in
Efay
,
the
fume
fioners he died
for
,
the
fame tranfgrcffors he prayed
for. Againe,
Chrifts prayer
muff
be
for
them that they
might bee
faved
ifthey
would
believe
through theirowns
free
will,
or
his effedfuall
working
offaith.
Naw
the
firft
werehereticall, thelatter
is
effeluall.
Some
except againft the
firft
part, thus
:
It
followeth not though
he
prayed
not for the world, that
is
fay
they,worldly
men while they werethus,
thatthererefore
he might
not
offer
for
them to
the
end
they might
be
converted from
the world.
But here are
threeerrors
in
this anfwer.
a.
Itmaketh
the
Sacrifice
of
largerextent then
the
Intercefïion.
2.
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