Cant .a.to. c s Commentaric vpon the 434 Secondly, Chria is called godowrSauiour, r.Toprooue hisownedi -i eti e,nor onely in expre(Te rearmesbeeing called God;but alto by the epi_ chite agreeing onely to a dfuine nature ,our Seuionr. 2. To implyour ownemifetie,whoftentinice wretchedneffe onely God could rcmooue, andwhole infinite good nonebut Godcould refiere. 3. And efpecially in regard ofthis doctrine; t. toconfirme thediuinitieof the fame, it beeing adebit-Me ofGod,anda doftrineof faluation proceeding from our Sauiour.z.To enforce thedutie towards it :namely that fceing theauthor of it isGod,the matter diuine,the effe& faluation, meet it is that fuch a fauing doétrine,a doétrine of fuch tidings , fhouldbe beautifiedand a- dorned. Doârineof Thirdly, this doélrinc is adorned,when it is madebewcifull and loue- God adorned twowaits, ly vntomen, and this by two things in the profeffors of it, t. By an honedi andvnblameable conuerfation : for carnal! men cômonlyefiecas of the Doarineby the Iife,and the profelTionby the praetifcof the pro- r.Per.a.ta. fetter. Hence the Apofllewould haueChriflians fo cocompere all their aCtion_s, as whofocuer ( hould fee their goodworkes, might bemooned toglotifie God. And thisappeareth more clearely in the contrary : for when the worke anfwerechnot to the word , it canted) the nameofGod Aom.sar, to be blafphemed among vnbeleeuers : and teglerie in the law,yet Brea_ lZrgthelawe, ie agreat difhenour to Gad. 2. By Gods blefling which a is promifed and is attending Inch walking, wherebyeuen hrangers to the Church, are forced co beginne to likeof the profeffion; for Gods bteffìng vpon hispeople, is not onely profitable to rhemfélues but cur- neth to the faluation of many others. We read of many of the Hea- then people,that when they law the great aduancemenc of Heller, and Hatt7. Mordecay, they became Inver. And when the Egyptians law the great 8sod.13.38, workes that God did for his people among them, it is laid, that many of them ioyned tbemfeluerto the Ifraelitet. So we read in the Ecclefiallicall florie, that when Liciniue was ouercome by Conflantine , and the perfe- eutionsceafed, which had almofl for Soo. yeares together walled the Chtirch,how innumerableofthem, who before hadworfhipped their idols,were contended to bereceiued into theChurch. On the contrarie, che.Gofpel is difhonoured,when the Lord is forced to-fudge andcorredt the abufeofhis name, in theprofeffors of it ; Ezech. 36.20. When they, that is, the Ifraelites, entred among the Heathen they polluted my name, when they laidofthem,thefc are thepeople ofthe Lord, andaregone gut ofhis Land. Fourthly,Seruanrs adorne theGofpel,when profeffing it,theyby per- forming all faithful! feruice to theirmailers in and for God,feeke& ob- caine thebleflingofGod,in the conditionof life wherein he bath pia- _ ced
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