EpileofS. to7ilia. CHAR 3.4. in abundance conferred to the Church ofthe new reflament:as Ezech. 36. Iwill powreout cleave maters: Ioei. 2.I will powre out ofmy fpirit, that is,thewaters ofgracevoto a new life. But I will not leaue the high way,where I may(as I take ir)moreconueniently goe in it.I will fpeake ofthis lauer ofregeneration, in the firidler fence, taking it for the Sacra- ment of Baptifine: for fo I (hall confound things which the text fee- meth plainly to diflinguifh;the wholeformer fence beeing exprei ed in thofe words ,and the renewingof the holy Gbofl ; as after in profecuting them we fhall fee. Thirdly,this newcondition is amplified by thefrnallcaufeofit,and this end is twofold: r.nearer hand,namely our prefent iutlificatibn, That by hisgracebeeing iuftified, that is, accounted righteous; 2.more remote and further off, but annexed, and iufeparably Eyed vnto the former, namely our future glorification, whenwe fhall be mani felled to beheires of life eternall; which yet is not fo farceoff vs, but that we haue fureholdof it by hope. Soas the whole carriage and meaningofthere 4.verfes,feemeth to be this. Howfoeuer formerlywe were inour old chace, loa in wandring and pirapbrate. vagrant courfes, yet after that the moli free loue and good will ofGod j our Sauiour ( whole foie mercy alone mooned him in his fogne to em- bracevs) through the preachingof theGofpel, did more clearely thine out; then not of any workes of righteoufneswhich.we had done, for what could we then doe?but ofhis meere mercy he faded vs: and to this purpofe he powredvpon vs his holy fpirit to the renewing ofvs,and the purging ofour confciences from all the impurity of them : ofwhich in- wardpurging that lauer ofBaptifine is a fgne and reprefentation,wher- in he doth not fparinglyand drop by drop, belpriukle our confciences with thofe pure waters,but abundantly and with a liberall hand flied- dethchem,and powreth them out vpon our foules, through Chrifl our Sauiour. All which our goodGod bath done for vs , that wemight ob- Caine righteoufnes,andall fpirituall gracesattending it; and fo might be led to the fruition of that glorywhich he bath already put inour hands by faith and hope,which fhall not makevs ashamed. In the principali efficient, we are to fpeakeof three things in order. a. Ofthis loue, and bountifulneffe of God , which is the pohtiue caufe of our faluation. 2.The timewhen it appearedunto vs,But when the 6oun- tifulneffeand lame ofGod towardsman. 3. The remoouall Of a afuppofed caufe, not by the worker ofrighteoufnef which we haddone ,but by bis merry he laurel vs. 623 In the firli wetriui Ertl difiinguifh chele two words , bountifulneffe, and loue of God towards pian. The former notech rather that nuns; R? -- good:
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