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fors
mailing
vs
to
the diligent hearing
o
f
Gads word.
and therefore
without
it,
there being
no
other
ordinarie
tdteancs
ofreconciliation,we
retnaine
fill
Gods
enemies.It
is
EpbeC,6.*ç.
called the
Gofpell ofpeace,Ephef.6.z
5.
without
which
wee
haue
neither
peace
with
God,nor
the peace ofconfcience
;
It
Aft.t4.;,
is
called
the word
ofgrace,
A6i.z
4.3.
and
2
8.3
2.
becaufe
it
is
the meaner whereby the
Lord
deriueth vnto
vs
his
grace
and mercie,
and
all
the fpirituall graces
of
his
fan6iifying fpi-
Phil.1.t6
rit;
It
is
called the
word
of
life,
Phil.2.1
6. and the
word
of
Acî.r
;.l6.
faluiation,A
&
&.z3.26.becaufe
it
is
themeanes
whereby wee
are
faued
out
of
the hands
offpirituall
enemies,
and are
cer-
tainely allured
of
eúerlafing
life
and
-happineffe
;
It
is
called
Matth,33.g4.,,
the
kingdome
ofGod,Matth.
z
3.44,
becaufe
thereby
we
are
brought,
firft
into the kingdom ofgrace,and
afterwards
in_
to
the
kin
rdoe
ofglorie
;
It
is
that
heauenly
feede
where-
by
we are
bmegotten
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 regenerated
and
borne vntoGod;
It
is the
food
ofour
foules, euen
milke for
babes,
and
frong
s.Cor.
;.z.
.
meate formen
ofripeyeeres
,z.Cor.3.a.Heb:5.i2.
whereby
Hcb.5.zz
we
are
nourifhed
vnto
euerlafing life;
and therefore
let
vs
not
refufe
this heauenly food like waiward children when
our heauenly
father
offereth
it
veto vsfor
fo
our
foules
being
hunger-
ftarued,_
nothing
can
follow
but
eternall death
and
def
ru6tion;
It
is
the
phyfick
ofour
foules,wherbybeing
fick
in
fin
they
are cured
and
refored.
for
as
Chrif
is
our
heauen.
ly
phyítion,
fo is
his
word
the
potion
which
hee:
giuethto
purge
vsfromour
corruptions,
and
the
preferuatiue
which
confirmeth
vs
in
health,
and preferueth
vs
from the leprous
infe6tion
of
finne, yea
this
phyficke
is fo
foueraigne,
that
though
with
Lazarus
wee haue lien dead
in
our graues foure
daies,
that
is,
continued long
in
our
naturall
corruptions,yet
this
phyficke
being
applied
willraife
vs
vp
to
newnes
oflife;
and therefore
thof
who
negleét
this diuine phyfick,
are
fub-
ieCl
to all
info
&ion
offinne,and being
infe6ted
can
neuer
at-
taine
to their health againe.
It
is
the fquare and rule
ofour
liues, from which wee
muf
not
decline
neither
on
the
right
Detitf.3$.
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hand nor
on
the
left,
Deut.5.
2.
and
thereforewithoutit
ourworkes trtuf
needs
be crooked in
Gods
fight.
It
is
a
lan-
thorne-