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V
E
R.
7.
Epheflans,Chap. t.
fpeaking
of
Chrift
:
Sometime
we arefaid
to
have things
in
him, fome-
time
for him,
as
Phil.
2.
To
you
it
is
givenfor
Chrifi
his
fake, not
onely
to
beleeve, but
to
fufer
:
fometime we
are
faid
to
have things
through
him,
as
I
Cori
».
5.
Rom.
7.
Bleffed
be
God,
who
high
given
MS
viFfory, through
Chrifl.
Now
the reafon
of
the
firft is, becaufe
that
in
Chrift
as
a com-
mon
ftore-
houle,
every thing
is
firft
placed, which afterward
is
to be
imparted
to
any
of
us
:
As in
,4
dam
our
bring naturall, our
hopes
of
life
and
death,
and
in
event
our condemnation,
was
received, before
ever
they
came
to
be
applied and received
afually
into
us.
The
fecond
is
laid
that Chrift
doth
by
his
obedience obtaine every good thing,
which
intime
is
communicated to
us:
for
as
Adam
hath procured
all
the
guilt,
condemnation, mifery, which
in
time we know;
fo
Chrift the
fe-
cond
Adam
in regard
of
the contrary.
The third
phrafe
is
fpoken in re.
fpef
that C
hrift
is a
mediator, not onely ofimpetration,but
execution
;
that is,not onely obtaining
and
receiving from grace all good
for
us,
but
executing,and
by
efficacy
applying
the
fame
in us:as
the
firft Adam
doth
effe&ually
propagate
his
being,finne,guilt,condemnation.
The
Vfe
of
this
Doctrine
is
to
fir
us
up
to
feeke
this 'above all,
that
we may be
by faith
in
Chrift.
We
love
to thruft amongft them with
whom
we
may
finde
benefitand profit
;
yea,we mutt
ftrive
by
faith
to
grow
up in him
:
the more neerely weare
united
with any thing, the
more we partake inthe vertue and operation
of
it
:
Thofewho
are nee-
reft the fire,partake
in
the
heat
of
it
more then thofe who
are
further
re-
moved
:
So
it
is
here
;
alas,men
feeke
to be madeone perfon
in
Law, to
be
molt
neerely joyned
to
fuch
as
may
bring them
in
wealth,
Allies be-
neficiall,
but who doth
feeke
by
a
fpirituall marriage
to become
one
with him
in
whom
is
every good
bleffing
C
See
above
the end ofthe
third
verfe.
Obferve fecondly
from this
,
that
he
faith
, We
have
redemption
in
Chri
fi
;
what
all
of
us
are
by
nature,
vq.
no
better then
in
a fpirituall
captivity
or bondage.
Were
we
no way taken or held captive,
there
could be no place for ranfoming
or
redeeming
of
us.
Now
captivity
or bondage
is a
flare oppofite to
liberty,
wherein men live under
the power
of
hard
Lords,
deprived
of
liberty,
and grievoufly
intreated
many
waies.
The
bondage
of
captives
is
in
this
;
firft,that they
are
in
hands
of
fuch
as
rule feverely over them
:
fecondly,
they
have
not
free
-
dome
to
doe any thing which formerly they
might,
when they were
at
liberty
:
thirdly,they
are
forced to endure many things moft grie-
vous
:
Thus it
is in
the
fpirituall confideration ,
which
I
will briefly
unfold.
What
Lords
as
it were teigne over
a
man, they
are
of
two
forts,
the
principal],
or
minifteriall
;
the
principal)
is
the molt
juft
God, whole
jufice
we havewronged
by
finne, ergo,we are laid
to be
redeemed from
under the
Law,thatis,from
under
the revenging
juftice
ofthe
Law
:
Looke
as
fubjeis
taken
in
murder,robery,
and
committed,
are the Kings prifoners
principally,not
his
who
keeps
them;fo
it
is
with
us.
Minifteriall,the
Devil,)
and his angels
,the
confcience accufing and
condemning for
frn.vs
as
.2.Menare
faid
before their converfionto be
I
under
Yfe.
D
oo.