The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

3. By Sanctity of Life, renewing them after the image of Christ; for when the Church is sanctified, and cleansed with the washing of Water by the Word, then it is fit to be presented unto Christ as a glorious Church, Ephes. 5. 26, 27. Holiness is called by the Apostle the^w Renewing of the Holy Ghost, the^x forming of Christ in us, the^y quickening and creating us in him unto good Works. Look what Beauty the renewing of a ruinous and decayed Building bringeth upon that, what Beauty the Re-union of a living Soul unto a ghastly body doth restore unto that, what Beauty the Creation brought upon the void and indigested Chaos, when it was wrought unto that goodly Frame and Structure which we now behold; the same, and much more, ⟨p. 7⟩doth the forming of Christ, and the Spirit of Holiness bring upon our deformed and defiled nature by the Efficacy of the Ordinances.

3. By Sanctity of Life, renewing them after the image of Christ; for when the Church is sanctified, and clensed with the washing of Water by the Word, then it is fit to be presented unto Christ as a glorious Church, Ephes. 5. 26, 27. Holinefs is called by the Apostle the^w Renewing of the Holy Ghost, the^x forming of Christ in us, the^y quickning and creating us in him unto good Works. Look what Beauty the renewing of a ruinous and decayed Building bringeth upon that, what Beauty the Re-union of a living Soul unto a gastly body doth restore unto that, what Beauty the Creation brought upon the void and indigested Chaos, when it was wrought unto that goodly Frame and Sructure which we now behold; the same, and much more,