~----·~---·- Js'""'fmh~-~----=-- ____- ---tfi~-,-.[hap.;~tbe H~b;.--- --r8# · [Parents did t!itis, it o .nnot bee cxptdfC'~i A l li~hmcs ::lit_d incon{~:lllCiC) as ?Y :he ~~.·Ot!hii1fs I what blcHing will come thereby eo Church & ot tl1c pan1c .prom111Dg. VVc icy 111 this \\Od\l; J Commonwealth. . . "'" hao rat het hauc fomc ll~c:ns ,.,Qt(l, then o.: I Thirdly and bnly., .let Vs hetc knO·.\'C 3,1)(1 I thtr mens bond: lnd r:uhct hauc a!inle rlro- : Icarnc, that this holy l\'btrOn; ~arah, figuri.:tlt I rTI!!Cd of fotl1C, thcri much of6thcts.Nu-..-.· fMh I \rmo vs m¥1l!cally the fpiritu:ill. Hi~.i·uf:~.km,.thc ! \\'JS t~1c ~llilgcnH::nt th~r Sarah ~clrl of_:litil r~1n: i Church ot Gvd.A!legotieJ arC chanly .and !paI pro:n1fcn: namcly,Cod: Shcc :~tdgedhtmf.orh.. ringly to be t::mght;ds much vrifoufi~ ddChinc fid/.1vhch hadp'roriJifed: . . , ,. I may cumber mens confcienccs: but .this·iS J."'.lirh,Full: that is, {hcc iudgttl hiti1 h~!e; ~nd found and fmc; for it is the ApoHlcs, Gal.+ tvilling to accompJifh whdtcuc~- he promlfcd tO l z1. &c. BJ Agar and Sarah, other things are her. ~o that the Grounds of our faith in Gt1C.1~ !meant, for, the{c fll'l} motherI drc two 1'cfhr.:. ahd ;-~ll his promifcs, muH be a iUrc apprrhcn:, mem.r: '.Agt~r,jl,ewhichgen~reth vntobondagr.l lio1i aJJd knowledge of thcfc twO things id Sm·.1h Hiem[al&m, whtch u free, andf'om aGbd • · · 6out,-andM the mother.of"vs all, Now, there1,. His alnliiJ, to m:lke good ·wh::tt-eHCt l femblance bet..,vixt natura.ll Sarah; the .witC of • .paffed1 him in word. j Ahraham, and myft,ca/1 Sarah rhc fpoufc of B 2. His c.Ji·cf4n~!]c ro doe i:, when hclmh I Chrifrthc'Churrh of God·, fiands in this; that Gid it. as fl1CC not by powcr.in her fr!fc, &u:t by-Gods Some \\Ill vromife:my thing, though the:ir po.,vcr, m1dfaith in his promifebare l[aac: So, abihrics llrctth not ro prrformc: others :uc the Church our mother, bringcth fonh chilable enough, but h:;.uc no care of rh.eir word. drctlto God, oncly by tht power of-Gods I ' Butbochrhefcar~inGod;all-fufficicnrabiUtyJ word and fpirit.And thcrcforcris/fi.---ac i~ called ::md mofi carcfull willingnd1C;SoS.1r,rh iudgCci the childe ofPromi(c, a.nd faid to beCorn'el'] ofG od)'lnd therefore f11ec bc!ce::ed ::~ga:ntl: rr:l~ Promifo, Gal.4.Zj. SQ, men regenerate and f(lll:-:md fo muft wc<Joc; if vvec will belc~~1c I borne to the Chmch,.arc faid not tohe.6ornr!o[ Gods ~vord aright. We may r.cadt, and hca~·e, Mood-, nor o_{thc wtl! of. t~cftc/b; norofthe rvi/1 Of and kno_wc Cods wOrd; and haih: the points man, hut of God, Ioh.r. 13•· And S.Jlmcs f.1.ith, therein fwiriJming iti our hcdds: but if we will t. I 8. God, ofhis tJ'w.ne.wi!l, bcg;tt VI with tbc con!lamlybcleeuc, with nui- heartS, his bidfcd wordof rnerb. Thus the lflord ofGodoand the promi(cs, & in our confdcncc fcare his thrc~t1 will, that is, the Cf,irit of God, thcfe~two togenings,wc mufi be ful1y pcrf..,,·adcd ofirhc.Jc nvo ther beget children to the Chur.cb. robe in hi1n. ~ · • The vfc is, to ,tea-ch vs all "to h•n•ur the So arc we taugilt by Chtifl (rhc 11ifJomc of Church as our mother; bucco-wo;/bipGocl •- C God) iH the Lords Pr~yer ( at"brc wee pray for lonc,who isthc fathCI_ofour foJJlc.l.:hc church any thing) to be rcfolucd of Gods p•wer and cannot make her felfc our mother, nor vs her will tb he-arc and hdpc vs. Hec is-Our Father, children, when Q1c will:but it is GO\;l that mull: therefore carcfilil and \\.!lllmg: hee u mhnmcn, I fpeak_tthe word 1 tbeJt arc we~ made: bee mull: nPd therefore able to hcarc vs,and to glUe vs al bcgctvsbythc power of hi's ftlir.it,a.nd mini.. thmgs, M:-mh.6.9. fierie of his word.' And further, let vs Icarnet" And the farhe commCnC'htion htrc ginen to\ here wh:ltaccount v<c.arc·ro make 9fGods ho S.1rah, is alfo glucn toA61.aham, Rom. 1· 21. lyy.rord, which is the1mmortalhfc.eJcoLour , Heedoubrcdnot, hut 6decut"d abo•u hove, (;J:...c. rcgencration>whercby we arc mad6.Gods chil;. b~cmg fldly ttfj~trcd, th.:lf he ~'hrchhad p'romifcd, drcn.,lndbciresofimmortality. ~ : .. JPtualjo ablc_rodoctt. 1 I Thus much of tlic two firfl,~f!ictls of her Thcvfc hetcof vmovs is double: fatth. . . 1 • 1 I, Fufi, ro adU!fc and'g\llde YS fbr om prorm- ~ The third JS lau.l downc 111 th~ next vcrfe: fc s;not to bC too reckici;as fome arc,v. hat\\ c will eh bcc:aufe lt Js much flood vpoo by the (l jlfom1fc: but to confid.er~tOrch:md,and tf~t be 1 holy <;JhoH; we '•\ rU put Jt off[lll tben, bcemg ID bc;yond ourpower 1 1lOtto fpeakc the ,\ ord,(fot I I therefore wonhy our deeper confider:mon. · I Ch'n{han mtnSwords muU oot be vam:) and if And now follo ...\•eth 111 th~ <:ntl ?ffhisvcrfc, we haw: p1 ?mJfc,cl :my tlvng l:mfull;lnd mot.1 1 the fift and la.fi p01~n, \\hlcn J$, tne~Grtr.-4ndof po•;\cr, t'o be carcfttll ro petformc 1t: Thusrb 1 I herfmth. . .. '" ... . 1 •• 1 1 d,oc, Is, to ~cc a fmthfit!l mtm, ~nd is agood uBcca•fo {b_e tttdg,diHmfdztlifidiwhzchh•dpru-- fig ne or'a hofy :nanand G '\ds child· prouiJcd mifod. l 'b'<b•fl?) \ \ ,, ·' • , I ] The foundation, V\ hcreqn l11clbualt tlw; her Ftrll of all tow::trds God, thtit r', c m:\kc con- {3tth, that (he !ho11Jd hauc a fonne,bcJngbtwl fcicnceof pcrfonmng rhc great VOV\ \\ co~naCJIC' 1cn a,f4_ pafl nge, wn:~ not the bltCpro1llllc 9f 1111 our /Jap!Jfnr, ~nrlrall other fca1od~ and hol~ God, fQ much as the concea or opm1on fh ec rurrotCsof Ol•r. heart.ip-:lde ro God. fo1, o- 1 hac\of,hlmthatplom;~d. Fol,pfOtnlfcsarcnot thcrwt(t', f,~cthm breakcs h1s VO\\CtoGod 1 of v:tlll(', fo much by the lhing~.·pto1hifcd; ca 1 c1c(ly,by Juungpro~~\-Jy ,he m~~y 111 ,_., otld1 though ncucr (o gr~at or e-:-;c-.e.l!cpt ( fot:thc;y. l ly pojiyv k~~pc his v.•ord, but\hc cannot cloc it maypro1ni!·c mttch,.._, ho t:::tn pc:-.formc nothing: in (onJ,icllCC·. ·, or thou.$~~ they ca~,,;I:r~~~·~=~~-c~l~~or~~~~ -..,,-.-._The_tht\tchof R~me:_~h,::}2' faul~y_ in rh is ---~- -~ . . --r-- lt 3 . p?2_1~t:_____
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