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The
excellency
of
the
rightecnfr,ejf
è
,Fees
a:fcatiorr,
289
himfelfe,
the
foule
now comes
into relation, into neere
union
with
the Father, when
God
made
man at
tirf,
he
did
not
only
give
him
a
body
and
a
foule, but he
put
a
principle
of
enjoying
communion
with
him, for herein
lyes mans
happinefle,
that
he
is
made capeable
of
enjoying
communion
with
God,
but now
this
happineffe
is
loft,
man
by his fall is
now
become
a
Granger
unto
God,
and when
God converts the
foule this
is
reftored,
at
the
firft worke of
converfion
the
foule
is
made
neere
unto
God
who
was
before
afarre
off,
he that
is
joyned to the
Lord
is
one
Spirit,
and
now
the
foule comes
to be
fitted
for
Com-
munion with
fo higli
a
good,
for no
creature
is
fit for com-
munion with
God
but
Angels and
men;
now
there
muff
be
a
futablenetfe
of
lives
in
thofe
that enjoy
communion,
there
can-
not be communionwhere
there
is
an unfutableneffe in
living
:
As
a
man
cannot have communion with
the
beafis,becaufe
they
live
not the
fame
life,
and
the
beats
cannot have commuuion
with
the plant,
becaufe
they live
a
contrary life,
a
naturali man
cannot have communion
with
God,
becaufe he
lives not
the
fame
life that
God
doth,
but
a Saint
comes
to
enjoy communi-
on with
the Lord
by
vertue
of this righteoufneffe,
before thou
wandredft
from
God
and foughteft
after vanity,& never
knew
what
it
was
to enjoy
communion with
God
:
Communion
with
".
God it
was
but
a
light
thing
to thee,
before thou
didel+
looke
upon
it
as
a
thing
that
had
not
much
in
it,
is
was
but
a
notion
to thee,
thou
dideft
heare
of
firth
a
thing,
and thou
couldefi
re-
late it,
but
there
was
no worth in
it
to thee,
thou
didft not
Prize
it;
but
now
the
foule comes
to
enjoy
that
which is
more
worth then
a
thoufand worlds
to
it,
and the more righteouf-
ne(}e
the
foule
bath, the more
communion
it
bath with
God,
and
this
is
the
reafon
that the
foule hungers and thirfts
after
more righteoufneffe,
for
the more
it
enjoyes
of
God
the
mö;
fw,:etne.ffe
it
finds.
Eleventhly, This
righteoufneffe
is
that
which fan;,tifies
all
our
aCtion3
unto
God,
and
puts
a
worth
upon
them,before our
anions they were not accepted, they were look't
upon
as
fil-
thy polluted things
:
To
the pure
all
thins
are
pure,
but
to
the
de
led
and
polluted,
all
thtu
s
are filthy,
fo
God
looks
upon
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