Chap.31.4n Expoiftion upon the Book! of J c) B. VCd. 29, 6oi hated by all ungodly men; Theyare enemies to him in their mind by wicked Trorkes ( Col. a. 21.) and fo they are te all thofe who beai-e his image. The Apoftie puts thefe two together ( a. 3Q. ) Back:biters, haters ofGod ; No wonder if they hack bite men, who hate God. And as Cheill bath forewarild ( -AITstb.r ) If they hove called the Afafier of the hoeefeBeel-bute, how much morejball they call them of hes botefhold. All nue Believers are of the houfhold of Jefus Chrift; yea they are his members. Chrift our herd was_hated by the world; and thereforehis mem- bers muft looke for hatred while they are in the world. Thisen- mity brake forth intoad as early as it could ; The fecond man that ever was borne in the wórld was hared by himwhoin nature was the Firit- borne,Caine hated his Brother, and his hatred con- cluded in the murder ofhis Brother (Gen. 4 5, S.) The Apoftle 74n fheweth us ofwhat linage Caine was, while he exhorts to love ( i eptfi: 3. 1, 12. ) This is the meßage that ye have beard from the beginning, that we fhould love one another. Net as Caine who was of tkat wicked one and flew hie Brother. Caine who hated and flew his brother, was not fo much Adams fonas the Devils fon ; and that he was fo,is cleare by the rea`onwhich the Apoftle affignes whyhe flew him, even becaufehis ovine werkes were evil, and his Brothers righteoue. That was all the reafon which be had to hate him; and no other appearing reafon had `lob given any man to hace him, but becaufe he was perfofl and ueright, a man that fearedGod and efchewed evill. As the He ill which is in a 132- fiever hates ( wherefore elfe (loth it luft againft and continually oppofe ) the Spirit ( Gal. 5. 17. ) fo they who are only ficfh, luft againft thole who are 1pirituall, or who (as'tis fayd of ¡Rae in oppofition to I(Maul, who was borne after thefiefb ) are borne after theSpirit. For thefe alto are contrary one to the other, ( which is the reafon given by the Apoftle in theother text, why there is fuch an endleffe ware between fief') and Spirit in a Be- liever) yea, There is a five-fold contrariety between a Godly and a wicked man. Firfl, They are contrary in their nature ; unholynes (by reafon of fin)is the nature ofawicked man,and holynes(through grace) is the nature ofa godly man; He not only efeapeib the corruption which k in the world throityle 4, but is made a partakfr ofthedi- vine nature (2. Pet. 1.4 ) H h h h condly,
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