va the MetropohtanChurch. e.........................IS Waw.....00.1{ 101.1.401...01.1...ROM 1 -.........- dowesofthe Church ? How earneflly fhould wee con- tend for this rruth,the CU (Iodic whereof he 'lathhonon- redus withal'? How fhorild we reime our repentance, and remember our firfl workes, lea fo excellent a privi- ledge be removed from us. There is no wrath that is wrath totheuttermol, but that which depriveth a peo- ple of the Gofpell, and taketh away their Candleflicke / from them. Thirdly, it notes unto us the Jiff rence ofthe twoco. vaunts, theone out ofSimaisand the other outofSian. At firft the Law proceededout ofSinai, wherein though the end were merciful,yet themanner was terrible,and cher- fore the effeCt nothing but bondage; but "after it was Cent out ofSion withthe Spirit of grace, and adoption, obferved with cheerefulneffe and libertie, as by thofe that knowGod will (pare them, as a man fpareth his childe thatferveth him, for inmy bond-flave I looke to the perfeCtionof the worke, but in my fon to the affe- &ion and difpofitionofthe heart. Laffly,it notes unto us, that the feat of laving truth, the Ctlaodie of the promifes, and. Gofpell offalvatioo, dothfill belong unto Sion, to the Churchof God. Out a of the Church there is no Gofpell, and therefore out of the Church there is no falvation. The b Apailk faith ofchildren which are borne out of Church,tbat they are uncleane: unto the Church (above all congregations ofmen) belongeth this excellent priviledge to be the Treafhrer of the richesofChrif, and c to holdforth the Word of lifeunto men. In which fenfe the 4pofile faith, d that it is the pillar and the ground of truth ; not that which giveth being to the Church, for the LawMull not faile nor perifh ; nor that which giveth authoritie, impofeth a fenfe, canonizeth and maketh authenticall,is a judge or abfolute determiner of the truth; for in that fenfe the e Church is held upby the Word, andnot that by it, for f the Church is built upon the foundationofthe. T Prophets 273 VERSE 2. Hebr. i 2.16-z2. a .Quomodo pa- teft effe cum Cbrilio qai cum ffronfa ati, in qui. Ec- clefia noneft? Cypnlib.z.ep.8. c 0,4 epiff.z. ad ,Inton. & lib. de unitat. Ecckalug.to.r. devera Kehg. b t Cor.7.4. c Phil z 16. d p dkiNa '67,P c ivaitg7 0,4 ay s4h0, `ei:ptdo- pss. Chryroft. boom fEphcC2.20.
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