3 4 Reafors mailingvs to the diligent hearing o fGads word. and therefore without it, there being no other ordinarie tdteancs ofreconciliation,we retnaine fillGods enemies.It is EpbeC,6.*ç. called theGofpell ofpeace,Ephef.6.z 5. without which wee haue neitherpeace withGod,nor the peace ofconfcience ; It Aft.t4.;, is called the word ofgrace, A6i.z4.3. and 2 8.3 2. becaufe it is the meaner whereby the Lord deriueth vnto vs his grace and mercie, and all the fpirituall gracesofhis fan6iifying fpi- Phil.1.t6 rit; It is called theword of life, Phil.2.16. and the word of Acî.r;.l6. faluiation,A& &.z3.26.becaufe itis themeanes whereby wee are faued out ofthe hands offpirituallenemies, and are cer- tainely alluredofeúerlafing lifeand -happineffe ; It iscalled Matth,33.g4.,, the kingdome ofGod,Matth. z 3.44, becaufetherebywe are brought, firft into the kingdom ofgrace,andafterwards in_ to the kin rdoe ofglorie ; It is that heauenly feede where- bywe arebmegotten vnto Gods in which refpc&l the nn)nifers 3.Cor.4. i 5. thereofare called fpirituall fathers,z .Cor.4,:z 5.and therefore without it we can neuer be regeneratedandborne vntoGod; It is the foodofour foules, euenmilke forbabes, and frong s.Cor. ;.z. . meate formenofripeyeeres,z.Cor.3.a.Heb:5.i2. whereby Hcb.5.zz we are nourifhedvntoeuerlafing life; and thereforelet vs not refufe this heauenly food like waiward children when our heauenly father offereth it veto vsforfo ourfoules being hunger-ftarued,_nothing can follow but eternall death and defru6tion; It is thephyfick ofour foules,wherbybeing fick in fin they are cured andrefored. for asChrif is our heauen. lyphyítion, fo is his word thepotion which hee: giuethto purge vsfromour corruptions, and the preferuatiue which confirmeth vs inhealth, and preferueth vs from the leprous infe6tion of finne, yea this phyficke is fo foueraigne, that thoughwith Lazaruswee haue lien dead in our graues foure daies, that is, continued long in ournaturall corruptions,yet thisphyficke being applied willraifevs vp to newnesoflife; and therefore thofwho negleét this diuine phyfick, are fub- ieCl to all info&ionoffinne,and being infe6tedcanneuer at- taine to their health againe. It is the fquare and rule ofour liues, from which weemuf not decline neither on the right Detitf.3$.< hand nor on the left, Deut.5. 2. and thereforewithoutit ourworkes trtuf needsbe crooked inGods fight. It is a lan- thorne-
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