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Comfortable
Perfcrmatiuet again];
defperation.
Oliue tree,
we the
fciences
which
are
grafted into.him,
as
it isRorn.i
i
.
he
is
the
foundation,
wee
the
building,
as
the
Apoftle affirmeth,Ephef.2.2o.
z
i
.
By reafon
of
which
neere
union, it
commeth to
paf
e,
that
thole things
which
apper-
taime
vnto Chrifl belong vnto
vs,
and
ours
vnto him,
for
as
the head deriueth
fenfe
and
motion
vnto the
members;
and
as
the Oliue
tree and vine doe communicate
their
ver-
tue,
fatnefre, and
lap
vnto their
branches
and fciences,
by
which
they hue and
bring
forth fruite,and
as
the
foundation
doth
futlaine
and vphold
all
the
building;
fo
doth our
Si-
ttiour
Chrifl our head, roote
and
foundation
communicate
unto
vs
his
members and branches, the
venue
of
hismerits,
and the
iuice
and
rap
ofhis
precious
bloud,whereby
wee
are
quickned
and rcuiued who were dead
in trefpaffes,our
finnes
wafhed
away and
purged
,
and
wee made fruitfull in
all
righteoufneffe and holineffe,
as
in
that
his
imputed
righ,
teoufiteffe
whereby
wee
are
iuflified
before
God,
and
that
inherent
righteoufneffe
begun
in
vs
by
his
holy fpirlt,where..
by
we
are iuflified
before
men,
And
as
hee
bath bellowed
and
communicated vnto
vs
his
righteouft2eIre,
death and
obedience,
fo
hath
he
taken
vpon
him from
vs
all
our finnes
originall and
a6tuall,
of
comtniflïon and omiffion,
and
in
his owne
perfon
hath
füffered all
that punifhment,which
we
by
them had deferued,fo
as
now
he
hauing
taken
vpon
him
our
limes,
and
indued
vs
with
his
righteoufneffe,
merit
and
obedience,
wee neede
not to
feare
the
exaél
rigour
ofGods
iuf
ice,for by him
and
in
him
we are
without
finne,,pure
and
vndefiIed, and
perfeóllierighteous
in
Gods
fight. Neither
(hall wee neede
to
fearc
the
violence
ofall
our
fpirituallene-
mies,for
our head
Iefirs
Chri
it
is
God
almightie,
and there-
fore none
fhall
bee
able to
placke
vs
out
ofhis
hands
againfl
his will,and
we are
as
dearc
veto
him
as
the members
of
his
body,and
therfore
looke how loath
any carefull
head
would
be to
have any
ofthe
members pulled from it by
force and
violence,
fo
loath and vnwilling
will
our
Sauiour
and
head
be,
to
haue any
of
his
members plucked from
him. And
therefore
feeing he
wan
teth
neither
wil nor
power
to
defend
.
vs,,:
vac
necde
not
feare
the
raging
malice and cunning vio-
ienc