lammy BeloTJedr. S:nR.XX. «s ro value our being in him, fo to be able upon good grounds to fay, I ammy Beloveds, andmy Belovedu mine. Againe.}let us labour to walke in the 1ight ofa fancbfic'd knowledge tobeattained by the Gof- •Joh.•+ pell; forasitis,I Ichn 1.3. the end of' allourprea- • Joh 5·'3• ( 'J ching is toaJfore chrift ID the Joule, that we may be able to fay without decdving our owne foules, 14r» my Beloveds, and my Bclove,d is miNe. All -The mai?e entl preaching(I fay)isforthis end,the terrourofrhe ofprea,hzng. Law and the difcavery of corruption is todrive os out ofour fel ves to him, and then to provoke us to grow up into him more and more. There– fore faith Tohn, ufUour preaching iJ that we may havefillowjhip ,viththe FAther and the Sonne, ttnd they with us : And what doth he make an evi– dence of that fellowfhip, walking in th,elight, M he is Jight,or elfe we are lyars;he is bold in plaine tearmcs to giveus the lye,to fay we are Chrifis, and have communion with the Father and the Sonne,when yet we walkein darkndfe, in fiones againft confcience, in wilfull ignorance , the ·darkndfe of an evill life, we have no commu– nion with ChriO: ; therefore if we will have ,, communion with him, let us walke in the light, and labour ts be ligh:tfome in our undedbn. dings,to h1ve a great: deale of knowledge, and then towalke anfwerable to that light and reve~ lation that we have. Thofe that live in finnes ~gainfi confcience, and are friends to the dark– neffe ofignora:nce,of an evili life,Oh they never thinke of the fellow1hip with· Chrift and with\ . Go_a,
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