to the EPHESIAN S. every godly inans heart when he firll turns him, as he teacheth him the ruies/o ~ he imprints the habit of skll; a fpmtual w1fdom to manage his heart! .to be able J'~rm. IJS. to pray, to believe, to do all thmgs acceptably, this 11 prudence; tlus 1s that ho- ~ ly ski!; for God undertakes to teach us; he takes no Apprentice but he teachetll Objerve, him his trade, this is my Covenant,faith he, they (bait at/ know me from the leaft to thegremejl, the;•fbuUh rtlt taught of God; i~ is part of ou~ Indenture and his Indenture with us, as Pft!, 2). 12. He Impnnts a holy siHl m the heart,that guides a mans feet into the way ot peace, as the cxprellion is, Lttk. 1 ;79• It is,my Brethren, expounded m that parallel placeI quoted but now, Co!.i. 9, 1 o; He prays, that they may be fiUed wttb aU wijdom and JptrJtual ttnderi– flaJtdiNg; for what end? 1hat they mtghtwalkworthy of the Lord, u11toa/J weUple!ljillg,bei"g f'ruitjttl ill .verygood work, Now,to have that skill as fhall fo guide and frame tile heart to the Law and will ofGod, that a man ihall be able to walk worthy to well pleafing, to do that wluch IS acceptable to God m fome mea– fure, this is this fpiritual prudence which is put for all fanctification as wifdom_is put Jor Faith. So that here you have the two parts of converfion, here 1s Wif– dom which is put for Faith, here is prudence which is put for that principle of fanetification which cloth change and turn the whole man,make it obedient to the will and law of God. And now I have opened it, I will call in but this, Here you fee Four particu– lar blellings, (for now I fhall fo rank them in this 7 and 8 verfes,) here is Re– Jemption, In whom we have Redemptto11 througb hu 6/ood; here is .! uf/Jfication or J<orgtvmejs of Sms,that's a Second; here is Wtjdom, which is put for Fmth, believmg fpiritual truths revealed in the Dodrin of the Gofpel; here is Prtt– dence, which is put for that principle of light which changeth a mans heart and makes him holy, and fanctiries h1m, and fo it is put for Smt{fijication. Well then here you have the fame Four blellings which Chrill is made to us, reckoned up, I Cor. 1. j O. Of him are ye i1J Chrtft .!eft~<, who is made unto us of God , H,.tjdom, there is.one. 2. Rtgbteot•[nejS, there is}ufttjicati01t or Forgivmejs of S111s. 3· Here IS Srm{ft{icatw11wh1ch 'Prtidmce IS put for. And 4 Redemptio11 1 And fo I have done with the opening of the words, You will ask me now, why doth the Apofrle exprefs the work of Grace,Faitli, ·and Sanctification by Wifdom and 'Prtidence? One R.eafon is th~, becaufo he ufeth feveral phrafes in feveral Epiflles, fame– times he calls it fpiritual Wtfdom and Knowledge, fometimes Wtjdom and 'Pru– dence, fometimes he tails it Sfllje, ;£,,&,,.as I remember he exprelfeth Sanctifi• cation fo, that light that fandifieth a man, it is a fpiritual fenfe, whereby a man taller~ the goodnefs of fpiritual things; fo he calls it in the 'Philippimu, as the other IS m the Colo.J!imu. Th1s IS one reafon, he ufcth feveral exprellions in fevcral Epi!\les. . Secondly, he wrote to the Grecimu, and to the .Ajiaticki, tothofe at Epht" {tu, who were all for Wifdom, they liked nothmg but what had wifdom in ir; the .!ews humor was to feek for a fign, the Greeks were for wifdom, and there– fore they refufed the Gofpel, becaufe to them it was fooliflmcfs, it had no wif– dom in it. Saith the Apollle, here is wifdom,feeing you prize wifdom fo much, I will fpeak to you accordmg to your own defires; mark,what a blelling God hath bellowed upon you, he bath made you wtfe to falvanon, he bath made you able to keep the Law, and to obey the will of God, which prudence doth change your hearrs,faah he, therefore he exprelfeth fanctification by wifdom and prudence· he fpeaks~o them in_their own language. ' A tlurd reafon IS th1,, becaufe (the truth is) that the work of grace it lies in ~vorkmg upon the underflanding of a man, it lies in working fpirirual knowledg In a man, (however men !mle tluilk of tt,) 1t IS a light let imo the heart, that l~veth aman, a different light from that wicked men have, Eph. 4 .23. he bids them put ojj theoldmallmzdput Oil the 11ew; how mu_fr they do that?. 6t r~11ew·ed ( fwh he ) 111 the Jpmt of ; •our mwd: If the fp1rit of a mans mind,. 1f the underllartduJt; be renewed, it changeth the whole mati prcfently. Therefore becaufe the mmn of the .work of grace, or at )call the firft of it lies in working urron or renewmg the mmd, therefore it is exprell here by wifdom andprudence. You have the hkc, Colof!. ~- 10. The Image of God it is rmewrd; it iHenewed Q.1. in
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