t o6 Nojottr°nying for Ifrael till aasse runs to one to fee if there be any, and then toanother, but they are all empty. So alas, a poor hungry foul, here it picks, and there it feeds, and as long as it can find a crum, it will never go toGod ; it had rather go to any VIOLIN- TEBANK,then come to Jefus Chrift the true Phyfitian.One day it will be of this Church, another day ofthe other mem berfhipito fee if there things willfeed them. But they whom God intends to bring home finde no fatisfaiion herein, but are ready to ftarve : and the true Reafon is, becaufe they live by theparterns,pictures,and refemblances offood. Obj. Obj. I know thou wilt obje&, though we are to liveby the Heavenly things themfelves, yet we are to make ufe of patterns. Anfw. Anfi'. I confeffe carnal reafon will fay fo, though to me it is not fo ; elfe thofe Scriptures muff be a lye ; for, ¡ Cor. 13 faith he, when that which is perfea is come, then that that is io. imperfeîtfhal be done away ; and when the Apofle faith, . flandfait in that liberty wherein Chrifi bath madeyou free, and be not entagled again with the yoak of bondage: and bids Gal. 5.. y. them theyJhould not turn again to the beggerly rudiments of the world ; and again faith, the fhadows and patterns of Hea- venly things con if}ed inwafhing and rudiments, and was never able to make the doers thereof, and commers thereunto perfea. Heb. 9.9. Admit, I fay, that breaking ofbread, as it is in the Externigl ufe of it, and admit that ufing of water-Baptifm were tiled by Chrift, which is hard to prove,they were never, or could be any thing elfe but the pattern oftheHeavenly things and of thefpiritual baptitìne ; elfe that Text alto tells us a lye,that faith,therewas never any but one baptifm, which is that of the Spirit. Now the Letter tells us ofdivers , as the Baptifine of the Children oflrael in the Red Sea, and of the Baptifine of John and the Baptifinewhercby an unbeliever was baptized: And yet the Text faith, there was but one Eaptifine ; for, thefe are but the /;adores of thefpiritualBaptifine : and when that that is perfect is come, then that which is imperfect is Con 13. done away. If thou did(1 really find thus, thou wouldeft ';'1O not then need to make fo much of Outwardwaffling and breaking Eph. 4.5.
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