---~-~--=---:=- --------·------- 466 · He feedeth among the Lillies•1 1 Su\.XX. ~ira~ion ~-f Am1chrift, and embrJced dod:rines 1c Tt.m. 4 • of devils ; therefore now we muit not follow thefe companies that lead into by-paths,contra1 ry eo the Apoflolicall wayes, but fee wherein our Church agrees wirh the Apo!lolicall Chur· 1 ches and truth, and embrace no truth for the I food of our foules, but that we find in the Gof- I pell.For Antichrifi feeds his flocke withwinde, I and with poyfon, and with empty thi!1gs. For 1 what hath been the food in Popery <: fweet and goodly tirles,as if they poore foules bad the bell: , Paflors in the world,when as they adminifierto . them nothing bur that which will be the bane of 1 \ their foules,full of poifon and fraud. This is fpo- \ ken to unfold that place whi eh gives light ro \. this, fpoken of the pall:orall care of Chriil,he / feeds his jlocke among the LiUies, plentifully and I fweetly. From hence maybe briefly obferved, ~} firll:, 0/Jferv I That chrifl feeds M weU tf-5 6reeds' l That we ~eed And we have need of feeding,as well as bree- j !feeding ~4 w~/J ding : where dofl thou feed '! that is,build up 1 l tU breeJzng tn , h . h'ld d . h h k b driftianity. \t y c 1 ren, an goe on Wlt t e.wor e ·egun . . 1 io them. We have need to be fed after we are \bred,and Chri!l(anfwerable roour exigence and . 1 .neceffity) ~e f~eds as v:ell as breeds, a~d that 1 Pet.1.2.3. \Vord whJCh IS the feed to beget us, IS that which feeds too. What is the feed of the new Birth•:'!he Word of God,the holy promifesthey are the feed, the Spirit mingling wirh d·1em, whereby a Chrifiianis borne,and being borne is J ,cherifhedand bl'ed;thertforeJAsnew borneBa6es, 1 , ~ faith 1
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