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R.26.
Epfiefians,
Chap.5.
48i
fhip in
the power thatdoth work
it
; but this
would
dcifie
the
creature,
andwhen
Chrift
faith, Mae.r
5.18. that
no creature can defile the foul;
we may
fay on
the
contrary,Nor
we,but
Jefus
of
Nazareth
-hath made
this
man
to
walk, Ails 3. In the
pooleof
Shiloh
there
is a
refemblance,
for
a
man
by going into the
poolc
was
cured, yet
the water
had no
virtue,
nor
was
not
lifted
up
to the
Angell to
doe
the
cure,
for
then
it
could
not but have
healed
two
as
well
as
one:
naturali
caufes
cannot
fufpend
their
actions,
when there
is
fit
matter,
as fire
cannot but burne
if
you put
onoyle,
or
call:
on wood.
The
Sacraments though
they
have no power
tocreate
grace
in
the
inner man ; this
though
Patel
faith
of
the
Word
preached,
it is
no-
thing, r
Car,
3.7.
yet
Rom.
r.
16.
bee
faith
that
it is
the power
of
God to Salvation, that
is,
a
powerful! inftrument.
To
underftand it,
you
muff
know
a
man,
or
a
thing
may be
a
caufc
of
that which
he
Both
not properly worke
:
for
example
:
I
come
and tell
you there
is a
poore man;
pray
you
to
relieve him,
you
go
and give
him fome-
thing, I
caufethis
aimes,
and
yet the matter that
doth
properly work
it,is the inward compaffion
which flirted
up
doth
move
you
to doe
the
alines
:
foEzech.
16. 57.
Wicked
luit breathed, men did by pitture
grow
to
be filthy, the devill flirting
up
their
luff, was
the proper
cafe, though the other
were the inftrumentall
:
fo
the Sacramentsby
reafon
of
the
Word
of
promife,
and
the proportion
of
their
effects
tothat which Chrift worketh, who
is
fignified
by them, they doe tell
us
that
Chrift
is
ours,
given
us,
his
blood
fprinklcd
onus,
they
goe no
further
:
now the Spirit ftirreth
up
faith,
and fo
maketh
us
finde
that
inwardlywhich they
fpeake
outwardly.
God
therefore fantlifieth,
the blood of Chrift
fandifieth,l
am lehova
your
fanfifier,
the blood
of
Chrift
purgeth from
finne,
the Word fanuifieth, Joh.
57.
Yam
are
pare
by
the Word
:
the
Sacraments fanttifie
:
God by
his
Almighty
po-
wer doth immediately from
him
felfe
alone
worke,
Chrift
his
blood
doth
procure it
:
the
Word
and
Sacraments
Phewus
this
blood, that
we beleeving on
it, might
have
the
Spirit
of
Sanctification.
Though
God
ufeth thefe things, yet he
doth
it as
pleafeth
him, to
whom
and
when
he rhinketh
good, for
he
doth
all
after
the
pleafure
of
his
Will
; it
pleafed him,
r
Cor.
1.
zr.
we
muff
not binde
God
to
the fount: Hence fome that
have
the
figne never have
the thing,
as
Simon
Magees, ltedus,
&c.
tome at
that
prefent receive
both
:
force have
the
effeet
of
Baptifine long
after.
But one may fay,
then the
figns are
emplie
figns,
if
they work not
at all,
or not
for
a
long
time, that they
lignifie. Anfv.
Thus
we may
fay,
a
good
medicine
is no medicine
if
it
work not
in a
body irrecoverably
obftrutted
:
or the
feed
is
no living
feed,
becaufe
`it
fheweth
not the
fruite all
the winter.
obi. One
thing
here
is
to be anfwered
:
How
it
can
be fäid,that
God
fanfifieth
us
by baptifine,when we
muff have faith and
fanûification,
before
it
can
be effctluall
in us,
as
was manifeft
that
Cornelius
had.
Anfv. Things
are
faid
to
be
done, when they
are manifefted and
more fully
performed.
i
will chafe
lernfalem, Zach.
2.
The
Conclut.
z.
Concltef.
3.