Cn .3,4, Lel Cowmentarie vponthe 628 as wecame this flefhabout with vs, fubieEìed and tending todeath and corruption, yea fubie6ì; tobecome an infirument of fume : and betides, thofe phrafes of the Apoftle, that we arenowfacedbyfaith, and by hope, feemeto denseour prefent faluation,feeingneither of themare ofthings prefent, but both of things not feene, andboth in the fruition of falua- saluatiancanto Lion mu(} ceafe. tAníw. Vile mutt: confider our faluation twowaies. &red two wx ;.,. Firfi, in Chrif+ our head, in whom we haue not attained one or aloe parts, but full faluation. Secondly, as it is in our flues . his members, and this in two degrees. Theformer, as it is onely inchoate and begun, which is, when beeing regenerate, and adopted into the number of the Cannes of God, wee haue attained in Chrili remition offinne,freedome' from the feruitudeoffinne , and Saran, and deliuerance from the curie condemnation ofit : fo as although finne as a poyfon will be in our flefh fo hang as we are in the flefh, yet is there nocondemnation for it to $om.kle chafe that are in Chrifi: neither is there raigne of it vnto death, but a walkingafter thefpirit ; and as for the reliques of finne which are left in their mortali bodies, they are not deadly, no nor the lafi enemie that fhall bedefaroyed their death íc (elfe. Now in thisfirfa regard we are not as we were before, the Tonnes of wrath, but true!), and properly may be Paid tobee tuft , reconciled , heires of grace, and faued from wrath. The latterdegree, is the perfe ì confummation, and finall ac- comphfh:nent ofour faluation : which is nothingelfebut a putting off of death and corruption, and theputting onof full glorieof bodie and foule.Now wemay not conceive this another faluation inkind then the former ; but another degreeof the fame, which as certainely ¡hall fol- low the former,as the former is certainely begunne. And thus are wee fatted by hope, not that by our hope we expe& another faluation then that which now in Chritt we haue inour hands; but for that we certain- ly Waite for a further and more full degree of that we haue. A man that lyeth liicite ofa defperatediferire is restored and recouered by two degrees : the former, when the force of his difeafe by the skilful! ap- plication ofphyficke broken, the humors purged, a temperature in part procured: now the difeafe is not deadly, bee beginneth to Bate, to drinke, to fleepe, ro walke ; here if we fay the partie is recouered ,and Cafe, we fpeake truth ; although he be not attained to the fecond de- gree which is a perfe& recouerie of all parts to former foundnef e; which (hall certainely follow the former, becaufe it is not another reco. tactic, but a furtber_degree of £oundneffe, the principles of which he hach already attained and is in poffef%on of: euen fo is our cafe , God looking vpon vs in his Chriff, accepteth vs as perfectly faued,our felues are freed from the imputation and damnation of finne, and fo perfe6 ly iuf1i_
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