r, Verf. 14. tbeEpzßle How and peated, only the form of words is why Chritt varied. Alfo now he expottnds thear- a garment. moor of light (as he had by particulars declared the works of darkneffe) by a new Metaphor of a Garment, to which Chrift is likened [piton,] becaufe as a gàrment hides our corporal' nakedneffe, -fo by Chrift our fins are covered from the fight of Gods juflice. Alfo a gar- fient compaffeth in our, body above and below, from top to toe, fo all the corruptions of beleevingfinners, be co- vered under the Mantle ofChritls righ- teoufneffe. Laflly,as a garment ferves not for covering only, but for comeli- neffe and ornament too; fo the Spirit of Chrift doth deck and adorn Chrifti- ans fouls, even as his death Both hide our fpirituall pollutions :Chrift is our wedding Garment, and our long white robe, Bevel. 3. 18. Aaron garment is a type hereof, the glorious appareil of the High- priefi under the Law, was a figure of this fpirituall rayment, and taught Gods people, that as never the High-priefi might appearc before God without his Ephod and fine lin- nen garments, fo finners cannot with liking and allowance come unto God otherwife then by Chrift, by whom alone there isaccellè made unto God, Rom. 5,2. Jacob put on Ffaur cloathes when he got the blefling, and for the obtaining of heavenly bleffedneffe, it is very neceffary that we put on Chrifi. T i M. But f eing Chrif} is put on by Baptifine,Gal. 3..27. bow are the Romans being already baptized, exhorted to put on Ghr If} ? St L. Chrift is put on two wayes : Firft, Sacramento tenue; Secondly, reipfit either in the Sacrament only, or in truth alto. Thus the Matter of ,Senten- ces diftinguifheth out of Auguf}ine, who writeth thus, Induimue Chrif ton ant ad Sacramenti perceptionem, ant ad vita fanfïificationem. The former is to good and bad ; the latter is peculiar to the Saints: Many of Gods children do live even in the eflate of fin and.death without Chrift till ,they come to years of difcretion, as Za- cha se, Paul, the Theef; ihefe till their to the Romans. converlion receive no more but the Sa- crament without Chrift, who is the thing fignified; and reprobates do ne- ver put on Chrift otherwife then Sacra- mentally, and by profèfliion of him be fdre the Chinch. Paul writing here to perlons both baptized and conver- ted, and grown into years, and graf- fed into Chrift, exhorteth them unto the latter putting on of Chrift, to wit, in deed and truth, and that more and more unto further fanitification oflife. For this phrafè [ psi on] in the prefent time, noteth a continual) aft, which endureth and mull be done all our life long. Chrift is truly put on af- ter two forts. Firft, when the ele& through a lively faith, do as certainly poffeffe Chrift, as they do their own garments ; whereof they are Rill the more allured, the more they flir up their Faith, and do encreafe in go ad knowledge of the Gofpell. Unto this putting on, belongs two a&ions ; one of Chrift, that he put on all our fins and - wretchedneffe, a Cor. 5. 2 r. the other of the beleeving heart,to lay hold more firmly on Chrift his righteouf. net and life, to make them our own as our cloathes be. The fecond wayof putting on Chrift truly, is when the fruits and graces of the Spirit,are plentifully given,or more largely powred into the Chriftian foul, to deck and beautifie her as a rich garment : there being two ufes of appareil, lirf1 to cover, and fecondly to adorn: this latter, is here refpcfled principally at leaft. For howfoever Paul would have Chriftians to be cloa- thed with the Sacrifice ofChriffs death, as Adam covered his naked body with skins of dead beads, yet becaufe he doth not here entreat of incorporati- on into Chrift, and apprehending him to juftification, and this phrafe of put- ting on Chrift,being oppofed unto the works of darkneffe, mentioned verf 13. Therefore this would be underftood chiefly of growing and encrealing, daily in the graces of the new man; fuch as be rehearfedf Colof. 3. io. Gal. 5. 22. 2 Pet. 1. 5, d: but efpecially in Cheat is truly,,put on two wales.
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