Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Now there are three things wherein this Chastity consists.

1. The not taking any thing into their Affections and esteem for those ends and purposes for which they have received Jesus Christ. Here the Galatians failed in their conjugal Affection to Christ: they preserved not themselves Chaste to him: They had received Christ for Life, and Justification and him only; ⟨p. 166⟩but being after a while overcome with ^ycharms, or bewitched, they took into the same place with him the righteousness of the Law. How Paul deals with them hereupon is known; How sorely, how pathetically doth he admonish them, how severely reprove them, how clearly convince them of their madness and folly? This then is the first chaste Affection Believers bear in their heart to Christ; having received him for their Righteousness and Salvation before God, for the fountain, spring, and wellhead of all their supply's, they will not now receive any other thing into his room and in his stead. As to instance in one particular. We receive him for our ²Acceptance with God! all that here can stand in competition with him for our Affections, must be our own endeavours for a ^aRighteousness to commend us to God. Now this must be either before we receive him, or after: for all duties and endeavours of what sort soever for the pleasing of God before our receiving of Christ, you know what was the Apostles frame. Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10. all endeavours, all advantages, all privileges he rejects with Indignation as loss, with Abomination as dung; and winds up all his aims and desires in Christ alone and his Righteousness for those ends and purposes. But the works we do after we have received Christ, are of another consideration. Indeed they are, acceptable to God; it pleaseth him that we should walk in them. But as to that end for which we receive Christ, of no other account then the former,