TheBeauty ofHo4tie up dill unto the mature ofa man : for wherefoever there isfaith and holineffe there is ever ingenerated an appetite for augmentation; Faith is off growingand Charitieof an abounding Nature, z Thef. 1.3. By the Word of truth,as by incorruptible feed wee were begotten, and by the fame Word asby the fap and milke are we nou- rialed,and growup thereby.This affeaionholineffe ever workes, as it did in the Disciples, Lord, increase our faith, and in David,Stremgthem, 0God, ihAt which,them hafi wrought for o u. Fourthly ,befides the Reaitude, Harmonic, and Mar turitie which is.in Holincffe, there is another propertie, which maketh the Beautie thereof furpaffe all other Beautie,and that is Indeficiencie. ThemeafureofChrifi mutt be theRule of our growth, but Chrianever was overtakenbyoldage or timesofdeclining,He never faw corruption: fo wee mu(/ proceecle from flrefigth to tirength, like the Sunne to the perfeaday, but there is no finking or fetting of Holineffe in the heart. They that are planted .in Gods Houk doe Gill bring forth fruit in their 014 age, and are even then fat and flouri- fling. As our outward man decaieth, fo our inward man groweth day by day. Our Holineffe is a branchof the lifeofChria in us vvhich dothnever of it else runne intodeath, and therefore is not apta nata of it felt to " decay : far that is nothing but an carnefl, inchoation, and affurance of death. that rvhscb waxethold, faith the Apoffle, is ready to varofb away, Fid).8.1 3. Fourthly and laffly, if we confider the Operations of Holineffe, that likewife will evidence the Beautie there- of, for it bath none but gratious and honourable e Weeks. It filIcth the Soule with Joy, Comfort, and Peace. All joy, unfpeakeable, and glorious joy, Face, quiet- neife, affurance, Tongs, and everlafling joy. It maketh the blinde fee the deafe time, the lame 'cape , the dumbe fing,the vvilderneffe and parched ground tobe- A a 2 come 357 VERSE 3. Per.r:23. Lt. LuIra 7.5. Pfal.68.23. P51.92.14. Roma 5'.r3 Pet. r.8. Efai.35,5, to.
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