The Beautie ofHoline e. sterrammes ..,IRINI tOwsmoserrag. Secondlyfromthemetaphoricall allufion(as it is u fu- allyunderaood ) it notes unto us likewife, that all the peopleofChrifi are Priejls unto rod, to e offer up facri- fices acceptable unto him by Iefus Chria. They haveall the priviledges, and theduties ofPriefls. To approach untoGod, £wee have libertie to enter intothe holitli by thebloudof lefus; to confult and have communion with him, to be his Aemembrancer ; for as hisSpirit is hisRe- membrancer unto us, g bee (hall bringall things toyoar remembrance, whatfoever I have Paid unto you ; fo is he h our Remembrancer untoGod, toput him,in minde of his mercy and promifes, to make mentionofhim, and to give himno refl. To know,and propagatehis truth; this i was the office of the Priefl, to be the keeper of the knowledge, and to teach it untoothers : and this know- ledge in the Gofpell cloth k overflow the earth, and make every 1 man, in a fpirituall fenfe, a Priea, an in- firuaer, and edifier of his brother. Tooffer tohim Inch facrifices as hee now delighteth in : the m facrifices of thankfgiving, the n facrifices of a broken and contrite fpidt, the 0 facrifices ofpraife, confeflion, good works, and mutuall communicating untoone another : in one word, the P facrificingofa mans whole felfe, tobe con- fecrated as a kindeof fira fruit unto God, being cane& fied by the Holy Ghoft. There is no man adually be- longing unto the Kingdome of Chria, who bath not all there holy affetlions wrought in him, and maketh confcience of them, as of his calling, and the duties of his life. Wee fee then that Holineffe is the bldge of Chrifis fubjetis; they are called q The people ofhis Holineffe : r Ifrael was holineffeunto theLord, and the pi splits of his increafe confecrated unto him and his fervice as a kindeof fira fruits. The livery of Chrias fervat.ts is a parcell of the fame holy Spirit with whichhis owne hil- 1 mane nature was clothed. f All the veifelsand minifle- iall r A a 3 359 VERSE 3. e 1 Pet.z.c. Efay 16,7. Revel.:. 6. fHebr.ro.19. g Loh. 14,26. h Efay 43.25. Efay 6z.6,7. I Mai.t.7. k Efay 1 r.9. I Col 3.16. Hthr.3.13 luckverf.zo. m Pfal.1o7.zz. n Pfal.5r 17. oHeb 13.15,16. Phil.4.78, P Rom.rz.r. Rom, t 4.16. Efay 66.so. lamcs 1.18. 9 Eray63, IS. r lames ,.18. r Exocl 40.9. rt
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