356 VERSE 3. TheBeauty qf Hohnefe.. el=1M fpeake ofa total!, and conflant neglea) is undoubtedly an Hypocrite anddifobeyes all, 14m. 2.10,11. As D4- Vid with a little none flew Goliab becaufe his forehead wasopen; fo can our enernie eafily Beale with us if he obferve any faculty naked and negle&ed. The aCtuall and total' breach of any one Commandement,(Totali,1 !mane, when the whole heart doth it, though haply it execute not all the obliguitie which the compaffe ofthe fifine admits) is an implicite,habituall,interpretative,and condttionall breach ofall; His foule thudsalike dif-affe- aed to theholineffe ofeveryCotnmandement, and hee would undoubtedly adventure on the breach of this, if fuch exigences and conditions as inifguided him its the other fhould thereunto as firongly induce him. He that bath done ousyONO of thefe abominations, hath done all there abomination in Gods account. Ezek. 8. to, 13. Therebeing then in a Chriflian man a fdreablelife and vigour of holineffe in every part, and a mutuall confpi- ring of them all in the fame wages andcads, there mutt needs likewiire be therein an excellent beauty. Thirdly,growth and further Progrefe in thefe Propor- tions : for it is not onely uprightneffe and Symmetricof parts,which caufeth perfeabeauty and comelineffe, but nature likewife. Now Holineffe is a thriving and growing thing. The Spirit is feede, and the Word is raine, and the Father is an Husbandman, and therefore the life of ChriU is an aboundinghfe,loh. to. t o. The ri- vers ofthe Spirit of Grace fpring up unto Eternity, Ian 7.36. As Chrift bath no Montters, In neither hath hee any Dwarfer in his mynicall body ; but all hisgrow up unto the pitch of perfaionwhich it becommeth them tohave him,evenunto the?mature ofthefixture ofthe falneffe of ChrifiiEpheb+t 2,13. Themeaning of the Apofile is that Chrift iL not alwayes an infant inus as when he is firft formed, but that he doth Grandercere in Santhe,asAlnico/He wellexpreffeth it,that he groweth up
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