H11...-"--'-..,..*"":... h 3 ap.4s c.4C.mment. rievpon ageoftheLambe. Theft duties arc all notedby Paul, when hs faith,:hat heprepared the Corm:htans that heWright prejen: them as a pure virginuntoChrifi.2.Cor. t I.2.Andbecaufe this charge and office is laid vpon the ApafLksand Miniiflers : therefsrc theyare laid to beiclosca. This Icloufic (lands in three things. The firfl is, to lout the Church, indecde and truth, for Chrtff s fake. The fecond is, to fears leafl by reafon ofweakncs, andby means of thetempta- tions ofthe deuill , the Church and they that beletue, fhould fall away fromChrift. The third is,after the fall of the church, to to be angt ie withholy anger and indignation, for Chrifis fake. Thus Mofes was ielous, when the Ifraelitcs worshipped the golden calfe : and Elias with like zeale flue thepriefls ofBaal. Thus is Paul faid tobe ielous in this place, andAft. 14. Iithe Apoillebe thus ielous,how much more then is Chrift 15 himfelfe ielous , who bath efpoufed lumfelfe to hisChurch ? This plainly thews, that he cannot brookeeither Partner, or deputie. And therefore his facrifice on thecrode mull fland without the facrifice of themaffe,his intcrcelfion without the interceflionofSaints, his merits without the meritof workes, 28 his fatisfaelion without any fatisfaelion of ours. He will haue the heart alone, and all theheart, or nothing : and he will not glueany part of his honour to any other. This Icloufie in the Miniflors muff teach all faithful) fen. cants ofGod , that theykeepe themfcluesas pure virgins for 25 Chrift , and fct their hearts onnothing in the world , but on him. Therefore they mutt hunger after Chrift : they mull ac- count all things dongue for him :.theymull haue their con- netfation inhcauenwith him and lone his comming voto the bydeath.Plal.4r. r o. Contrariwife they that let their hearts 30 any other thingbefidehim, are laid togee a whoringfrom him, and therefore they are accurfed. Pfal. 73.27. Thus many Pro. tenants doe in their prattife , whatfoeuer they profeffe. Thus 1 loth theChurch of Rome both inword and deede.Forbefide Chrifl treebath many other loners :,and Theegoes, a whoring; 35' after themwhen fhee worfhipsAngels and Saints, the images ofGod,andChrift,with religious worfhip. Avine, by this we are put in minds toyeeid an rniuerfall fubietlion toChrift : for this is the dntie ofthe efpoufedwife 1 v -- LaftlyzA to her husband.
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