CHAPS. EPi/11e to the lheffälonians. V>~a..,t6. 5') alto May be added ; to Gods ch.ldren demeaning them - felues4 as his children. Thar yeelded, the anfweres are Various. t,fltvases : that is ro Say; fay fome, in all States, aduerfe or profperous ; whatfocuer'condition God is pleated to place them in, they haue confiant caufc of icy and reioycing. There bee that thus interpret ; Reieyce evermore ; S ia<<t n. nonaflrt ftltem habito.I muff confeire,thar dilliREfion in this cafe, is to me a riddle : except perhaps they would fo be vnder(lood, that wee (hould alwaies haue a difpo Gtion to reioycing. , A third thus, Reioyce euermore; that is, haue alwaies matter ofreioycing ; fodemeane your felues, that you may haue contimtall ioy of the'holy Ghoft, through fettle and atfurance of Gods favour. Sure it is,Gods children alwaies have, or may haue caufe e Rif-1.16.2.s. of reioycing -The promife is, Their e iofnone (hall take from them ; to this end is the Comforter giuen, to abide with them for euer;amongfl the plenty offruits he brings with him; F ioy bath not the mcanefl place. f G 3. S zz. The cortlant caufes of their ioy, Bernard referres tó thefe two heads. Firfi, cxnbita. Secondly, promzjjer. Bernard. Things exhibited, and alreadie giuen ; As the n ritiná of our names in Gods Book c of life ; by fo vnchangea ble a De- cree, that it is as pofíible forGod to ceafe tò be God, as to alter his Decree of Eletaion. To which adde thole o- ther ble ings appendent : pardon of fumes in iuftifica- tien the continual! fupply of .his Spirit, to faní`tifie and renew vs.' Thefe and the like, are bleflings already exhi- bited ; affeEting Pnnl with icy no Ieffe than g triumph s Rom.8,37i38 in the middeff of tribulation. O6 f er. If any fay, the ioy we fp cake of, arifeth from fence and affurance of our (baring in thefe bleffings, which fence l,fal5i:tz. ,n h b loft. our owne, Secondly, where fenfe failes, faith Qiould,1 H 4 make( 'f loft, as I confetle it may be, the fault is much -what; AN/W. Aj .1 1)' e
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