• NEvv CovENANT. ~ · .more : For, this is a very fure Ruie, the;e is not a new notion that a Man gets, there is not a beame of new truth, there is .not ·a further enlargement of knowledge -and illumination, but it brings fome riches of Grace .... Note. with it, it comes not emptie, but it comes loa· ded with fomething, it bath fome power and .ftrength, and it gives·a new vigour to the inward man: And therefore if thou wouldeft abound in Grace fiudy the Scriptures, much attend to them,much meditate in them day and night, labour frill to get fome new fparke of knowledge, fome new light outo(them, and thou fhalt finde this, that Grace will follow, as it is the Apofiles exhortation to Timothy, faith he, Give ttttendance to reading,and to lettrning,fo Mlt thou_fave thy folft ,&jJMlt IJe ah!e ttlfo tofovt othtrs. The meaning is, the way to get that Grace that will fave a man, is to give much ().t– tendanceto reading and to learning: Foro, Be~ loved, \vhatfoevf'r it is that bege.rs aMan, the increafe ofrhat likewife edifies and builds him" . up furdier. Fi rfi, weare tegotten hJ the word of · Th;wo;d be. tritth: It is the revelation ofthe truth of G 0 D. gets&builds _to a .M a? at r?e fi dr,thatr~n:wes him.in ~he jj.irit up Chrifiiaq• Djhummde,ttchangeth h1s Jtidgernent,tt makes . .him thinkeofrhings; in a cleane otherf~thion t.hen he was wont to ,doe: : Thus he is begotten toGod, and made a new Man, .a new creature: Now tne increafe of· the fame truth · is it that buildsus upfurther: :Forwhatfoever begets, the increafe of that alfo edifie_s, and J' . hence
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