44. ( Chap.S: si4 Comancntarievpon as hauebin doers, but filch as arc doers. Thoword lignifies a prefent and á continuedat ofdoing amilte. The vie. Hereis, the difference the godly min, and the vngodly. Thegodly man faIlsinto the workesof the Hefh, and beeing admonifhed thereof , he repents and recoucrs! himfelfe: he dothnot Rand in theway offinners,thoughfome time he enter-into it.Pfal: t, r,Thevngodlyman,when he falls,) lies Hill in his finne, and hcapcs finnevpon finne , andmakes a praetife of cadi. I. Warning. They which are priuie to themfelues ofany tC ofthe - former workes oftheHells ,mule bewaile their oftcnces,, and vtterly forfakc them. For if we be founddoers ofany one worke ache flelh, there is nohope of faluation. I I. Warning . They which haue turned vnto God from the works ofthe fle(h mitt be confiant, and take hecticof go. ingbacke,leaft theyloofe the kingdomeofGod. 2Z But the fì'.úit of the Spirit, is,' lótie,ioy peace,1ong-fut ering,gerl- tlenes, goocines, faith, z; M.eeknes,temperance: aginft ft_ach there isfno law. Forthebetter obferuing , and the more eafie vnderftanding of the rule in the 16. v. Wake in thefpirit, Paul here fets downe a Catalogueof the works of the fpirit. In the Catalogue,I con filer three things., the propertie of the workes of the fpirit, u, thefe words, Thefruit ofthefpirit; the kinds ofworks, and they are nine: the benefit thatcomes by them, in thefewords,agaiafl filch there it no law. The fruit of thefpirit) -It is thepropertieof theworkes of Gods fpirit invs, to be called théfruits cftisc_f irit.And by this; much is:fignified.: namely , that the Church is the garden of God. Cant.4. 16. that teachers are planters and fetters. t. Cor. 3.9. that beletuers art trees of righteoufnes. Ifa. 61. 3. that the fpirit of God is the fappe andhie of them : and good workes and verrues, are the fruits which they beare. In that the works of-the fpirit,are calledfruiu thhtóf, hens :t lò 35
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