ai y C n AP.4..An Expofition vpon the frfrt V $ R. I I. 12 VaitSE.ILit eArnd that yee fludie to bee quiet, and to doe your owne n,fe, buff- and to workg with your cone hands, as wee comman- dedyou, That yee may walke hone( ly toward them that are without, and that yee may haue lack_e of nothing. 7r ` (. Third branch of Sanctification here fpeci- ")`l`` fled, is the care of quiet and peaceable li- ning together in Chriffian focìerie.Vtiher- r C+ in confidorable are : Firfi, the du try, Se- ë . .tS* 4 condly, the meases auaileable to perfor- mance ofit. The duetie, Studie to be quiet. The word figntf-nes, to fecke after, with a kind of holy ambition; as it weiethin- king it our honour, to calme our trubulent fpirirs, and to line at peace. 'Finch is, Obfer. Mans honor f ands ingracious pra&?ices;& therefore lbould P rrou. z o 13. a Chriffian be ambitious. It Is a mans P honour to ceafr from firife, layd Salomon, fpeaking to this particular. Polfefle q I Tbef 4.4 your felues in hol:nclTe & 1 Honour; in Holinefre, which r I.Pet.5 f. is your Honour. r Dcckeyour felues, laid Peter, with low - lutetTe of mind That Grace of God, how vilified foeuer amongil men, yet makes vs glorious in the fight of God. For, Can there bee to the Tonnes of men, a greater honour then to hold femblance with the Maief}i& of God ? Glo- riouc is thatlmage of God, wherein wee were created, f z.cor.3,I8, whereto-we are renewed,into which we are (transformed from glory to glory : which a1(ó wee manifeft by gracious praûue. Vie- Hither therefore let vs turne the ftreame of o: r atnbi, tion : And as Paul(peakes to the Criticke Cenfors ofhis t Rom.14. r3. time; If you will needes be iudging, vie your tiudgement !in this, not to put gambling amblin blocke before the weake; fo, I f we Iwill needes be ambitious, hither bend our ambition, to ----- ___ grow
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