52$ eflnfw. q n Tim.2.6. r Ephef 4.30. CHAP. S. AnExpojitian -upon the firft VER.19. Of whether muft the Text bevnderflood ? Of ail; gifts of all forts, ifruing from the Spirit of God, the exercife of the gifts: feiuourinexerctfe, par ticular motions comming from the holy Ghof$ : that the f °nfe may be this : The gifts o(Gods Spirit, with all his ho- ly motions and operations, muff be by all meanes chersßsed to our hearts : All endeuourgrrsen,tbat the Graces we hatte re- ceissed, may be preferued ín their fe dlefl fcruour, -n itbout any the leaf! abatement. Therefore Paul exhorts his Timothy, to c flirre vp the gift in him ; and toEphcfians permits not fo much as to rgrieue the Spirit of God, to glue him any occauìon of withdrawing the liuelihood and vigour of his operati- on in them. His reafon, me chinkes, is forcible ;becaufe by him,we are Pealed to the day of Redemption; as Theophylalt ex- pounds ;. bee is ro vs Gods CharaEler and marke, let on vs, and feizing vs for his owner affuring vs thereby,that that day of Iudgement (hall be to vs no day of Wrath, but the day of plenary and full Redemption, q. d. As you &fire to retaine affurance of your deliverance from the wrath to come ; than the Lord !hall take notice of you for His, in theDay of that dreadful! feparation : fo by all meanes cherifh in you the gifts, and operations of his holy Spirit : It is the only euidence we haue of our frcedome from condemnation. If that moue not, heare then the tlpoftles Paul and Peter thundering to awake vs, out of our negle& of fo great faluation. The folic of Gods Spirit, the refilling of his motions;. if it be but want of care to ch erilh his gifts and operations in vs, to f how fearefull and hopeletfe efface doth it haz- zard vs? In cafe of lotfe, the recouerie for euer becomes em- poilible; No hope left, in that cafe, to bee renewed to repen- tance ; nor expefíation of any thing from God, but foreft vengeance ,andviolent fire to deuoure.. The t laff end ofinen fovnoraciotts,becomes worfe than Their 6 inning. Let
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