CHRIST'S 91Rrf3f of Saints, be an Article of our faith,yet we let it die. We fee in nature, if we fling any meat to a Hen,prefently fhe clucks fòr all her Chickens to have part : So, look what graces we get, we fhould impart what we can : the Lord Lath appoin- ted mutuall- giving good example unto oneanother, edify- ing one another,exhorting one another,admt nifhiog one a- nother, comforting one another, conferring one with ano. ther,fupplicating one with and for another.As it is faid,Luk, 5.10. That Simon, and James, and John were partners in theirftfhing, looke whatffhes they caught, they divided a- mong one another ; fo Chri ians fhould bee partners. What they get at a Sermon , they are to impart ; What they get in Prayer, or at Sacraments, or in affliliions; there be others that fhould be partners with them : as the Apoltle fayes , Looke not every man on his ovine things , but every man alto on the things of others, Phil.2. 4. O fayes hee, if there be any fellowlhip of the Spirit, thus it mull bee, that is,the Spirit would breed this fellowfhip and communion among you. Now, beloved, where is this holy Spirit to be had but in Chrift ? 1 fay, we are without excufe, if we doe not get the holy Spirit of God, becaufe Chrilt hath -him for us, if we would retort to him, and therefore we can have no plea. Firft, Wee cannot plead, wee have no need of the holy Spirit of God : what need we have him, as long as we be- leeve there is fuck a one ? Is it needfull wee fhould have him ? I, that it is ; why elfe did God make his Sonne to be the difpenler,and the drltributer, and communicater of him? O, beloved , the Lord hath done this becaufe wee cannot be Paved without the Holy Spirit of God : would wee bee regenerated and born again ; we cannot without the Spirit: That which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit,Joh.3,6. We can never be fpirituall without the Spirit of God : none but fpi- rituall men and women (hall enter into the Kingdomeof God. Drunkards, and Adulterers, and Ly ers, and Muck. worms, and better men than they, are carnali men. Now to be carnally minded is death , but to be fpiritxatly minded, 'this
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