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Ephefian.r,Ghap.6.
VE
R.3.
obj. 2.
obj.
3.
It
is
faid
that Gods
children often neither have great wealth nor
good health, norlong
life.
Anfiv.
Their happy
conditionfiandeth
not
in
abundance, no mans
life,
the profperity
of
life
:
A midling little
Nag
performeth
a
journey
as
well
as
a
great Demie- launce.
a. Gods children wanting thefe things
muff be diftinguifhed into
a
threefold rank.
T.
Many
there
are
that
as
yethave them not,which
!hall feafonably
in
this
life
be
made partakers
of
them.
Now
if
I faythe
Sun fhal rife
to
morrow,
it
is
true,
if
it rife
at
noone, or
a
little before the evening
:
So
thofe promifes
are made
true,
though
a
great part
of
the
life
be over
-
fpread
with clouds
of
poverty
and
infirmities, and this
is
no
unufuall
thingwith God, who trieth
his children
that
he
may
dogood tothem
in
the latter end.
a.
Many
of
Gods
children havenot thefe things, not becaufe they
are
not
given
to
godlineffe ,
but
becaufe we fall into
ungodlinefFe ei-
ther after grace, or havebefore
we knew
Gods
grace done
that which
God
fecth meet
thus temporally to
correEt.
Looker
Cor.
jr.
as
God
may forgive
that
fin, and
not releafethe temporall chattifement
which belongeth
to
it,
and
the molt
are
in
this
order
:
They
mutt
not
therefore difenable the
godly
courfe to
which theyowe
all
that
bief-
fing
they have, but blame their owne
ungodlineffe ,
when
they
reape
that
correction which themfelveshave
fo
wed.
3. But
thirdly,
it
will
be
faid,
that
tome
in
whom
there
is
no fuch
particular offences are foon
taken away.
Gen.
5.
Enofh
, and may live
miferably;
L4,ersee, He6.r
r.
Azfiv.
Thefe are
rare,and
have
thefe wants recompenfed
in
a
more
ample
poffeffïon
of
things heavenly
in
that
life eternall
by
which
way
God doth
pay
them with
ufe
whatfoever outward thing might
be
expeâed.
It
may be faid, be it fo
that
keeping
the Commandements
would
bring
us
to
bleffedneffe
here,
yet
all
the craft
is
in
the catching: for
the Law promifeth nothing but to
perfe& fulfilling
of
it,
which
wee
cannot.
vexfie:
As we
fcape
the curie
of
the Law
by
believing on
Chrift:
fo we
attame
the
promifes
by
believing
on him,
in
whom
all
the
pro
-
mifes
of
God
are
yea and
Amen. Forour works
are covered accep.
ted,
rewarded
through
faith on
him,
as
our perfons
are
by the
fame
accepted, grace freeth
us
from the rigour
of
the Law, thereforethe
fame promifes are renewed
to imperfect indeavours which
wee are
able
to
make,
Mar.6.
and
t
Trm.4.8.
A
ue
ff. But
doe our works procure thefe
things,
as
they
fhould un-
der
the Law
have done
e
Anfo.
No
they
were motives and
caufes
procuring, nowthey
are
rewarded
as fruits
of
a
perfon who
is
received
to
grace
in
Chriff
, and
therefore
an
heire
of biding
,
they be conditional) correquifits,
not
caufes.
VERSE
4.