Sa r. V'III. 363 :Seas s stria Z 2amerei l2 2 2i? 2 s SECT. VIII. Treateth of the Nature of ConvertingGrace, under the Notion of VVafhing, or Sanctifying, SERMON LIX. To undeceive e`len that think, Though they live Wickedly,yet they(hall dye Happily. eílndhorn it comes topat that men are f prone to Deceive themfelver. C o it. 6. tr. And fah were fame ofyou; but ye areWanied, but yceare Santfifted, but ye are jultefredin the Nameof the Lord Yefus Chrft, andby theSpirit of our God. H a firti words of the Text caufe us to look back to the Verfes beforeit. The Apoftle in the beginningof the Chap- ter, reproveth a finfull and unwarrantable practice a- mong the Corinthians of going to Law one with another. Not that it is abfolutely a fine to demand our tight before aMagifirate; as theAnabaptitts would infer from hence; for than the Apofile would not have permitted them to ute fuch judicial decifions among themfelvs, to which he dire8s them ; but the grounds of this prohibition are, partly becaufe they impleaded one another before Heathen Magiftrates ; and fo Chriftianity was made a reproach; partly they wanted a preparation ofmind to fuller wrong, rather than finfully con- telt in inferior matters ; partly becaufe they did wrong , and were full of injurious carriages, and that to their brethren : from which wickedneffe he deterreth them by that thtreatning ; Know ye not that the unrighteous Jhabnotinherit the ICingdome of heaven ? and to confirm this the more, he layeth down a more general) propo- fatiun, enumerating feverall kindso,f finnes; and leati they thould chink their Clad- As a a liian
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