Chap.7. according to SE M A T T i vv. 297 double dillrence. z. In the foundation : this to fee to, and a- boveground, is little dífcerned. The Temple is faid to be as low -under ground, as it was high above. z. In the building it felt, The unprofitable hearer is not cimented to Chrift by faith, but laid loofe, as it were, upon a Candy foundation, andfo flips befide theground work in foul weather. He isnot fet into the flock as a fcience, but only !luck into theground as a [take ; and is there- fore eafily pulled up. Whereas the true Chrittian is knit fait to t Pc4241i Chritl the Rock, by the ligament ofa lively faith ; and, as a lively fione, is built upafpirituallhaufe, growing up in the myllicall body with fo much_fweetnefl and evenneff:, as if the whole Temple (like that cf Salmon) were but one entire florae, He that iejoyned to the Lord ú one fpirit, I Cor.6.17. So that although i. Shakings andwaverings in the very purpofe of holy -walking, may befall a Saint by violent temptations, Pfal, 7 3. 2, 13. Yea, 2. Intermiffions of the exercife ofgrace, as of life in a palfey or epilep(ie. 3. Particular falls we arenot exempted from- Peter himfelf, though a pillar fillfiori hieformerfiedfafinefe, in part ; yet from intercifion, prolapfiou, from utter and irrecoverable falling away, they are freed , becaufe founded upon a Rock , which can never be removed : He is both the Atsthour and fini¡ber Hcb.ra:2 of their faith : He bath praied and procured, that it utterly L,uk.za, . fail not. And thefall thereofWore great. ] Great and grievous, becaufe ir- reparable, írreedií able, as Hiericho a-n-dtheTemple at Iereafalem, God laies them afide like brokenveff ls, of which there is no fur- ther ufe ; and Pith they wilLneedswallow again, as fwinep in the filth of their former pollutions, he proncunceth upon them that fearful! fentence,Let hint that ú filthy befilthyfiill;that unclean fpirit entereth hit again; and his d;fpofitions to evil are feven times more enflamed then ever. He háth defpfedanddoffighted the Spi- rit ofgrace, and is in the ready rod to the unpardonable fin. The Apollate cannot lightly chute unto himfèlf a wolf condition, He& t 0.26. Hecalls hiinfelfinto hel- mouth, Hob, ga. ult.. where thebackHider in heartflagbe filledWith his ownWaiet ; and have the Prop, 4. t 4; greater torment, by how much he fell from greater hopesand pollibilities of better ; as Nebaachadnezzar from his Monarchy, and as Crasnrter' from his high prefarmant to fo low a Bondi- tion , as that there was left him neithef hope of better, t.or place ofwade..
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