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nt,
a
type
of
arifi.
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retraining
our
(elves
in
unlawfull
liberties,
yea
and
in
lawfull
;
all
crottes reafon.
Had
Abraham
ever
facrifì-
ced his
fenne, had he confulted
with
reafon
?
Had
Paul
ever
joyned
to
the
difciples
to
preach
that
doctrine
which
bee
had
perfecuted, had hec confulted
with
fleth
and
blood,Gal.
1.1
6
?
What
other
reafon can
bee given
that
the
word powerfully
preached
is
fo generally
fruit-
lea,
but
that
men
think they have
reafon
not toobey
e
fo
at
leaf}
not
in all
things
?
They
fee no
reafon
i
precife
;
nor
is
there
any
wifdome to
bee
fo
forward.
'
Reafon
tells
them they
lee few
great
men fo
ftri
,
but
a
few
defpifed
men
are to
earneft.
,Heaven
and
4.
Hee
(hall
never
attaine
heaven,
1.
Cor. 15.
S
4.
glory
thcnd
Flefh and
blood
cannot
inherit
the kingdome
of
heaven;
of.
g
d
either
cloth
corruption
inherit
incorruption.
By fleth and
h
to
and
corrupt
e
blood
is
meant
t e
vitiate
eft
ate
of
than
;
or
!
flefh and
blood fevered
from the
fpirit
and grace
of
G
©d
;
or
the
man
unregenerate having
onely Beth
and
blood.
So C%'tatt. 16.
17.
Ble
feel
art
thou Simon
texas,
for
flefb
and
blood
hath
not
reveiled it
unto thee,
but
my
Father.
So
as
here
is
not
required
an
abolition
of
fie
h
and
blood
in
the
being
and tubtlance
of
it, but an
addi-
tion
of
new
qualities.
As
in
Chrifts
transfiguration
was
not
an
extinaion
of his
body, but
an
acceffe
of
in
-'
credible glory
;
without
which
change none
can
get
to
heaven.
/ob.3..3.
Except
a
man be
borne
againe,he can-
not
fee
the kingdome
of God.
The
Aponte adds
the
reafon,
i
.
Cor.
t
5.5
o.
Gods
kingdome
is
incorruptible;
flehh
and
blood
in
it
felfe
is
con
upted,
and fo
not
capa-
ble
of
that
kingdome. Therefore
to
come
to
heaven
thou
muff
bee changed
in
thy will,
reafon, wifedome
and
all.
Sea.
V.
Pte..
r
Belccve
the
To
apply
this
:
word ahfo'
1.
Labour
to
bring
the
eye
of
faith
to
the word
: elfe
cutely.
(hall