470 Book IV. 1L.oolung unto '}tfu.s. Chap. 2.SecL9. remainders of fin, but tht Sp~rit f' lift, cve.n t~at little fpark of grace, through the moft perfect righreoufnefs of Chnfi tmputed, IS ltfe here, :ind /hall be life hereafter even Rom.6.4. forever. And herein is our vivification anfwerable to Chrilt's Refurrei9:ion; Li~e;u Chrift w.u raifed t•p from the dt11d by. thtglory of tht FAther, ratfed up to a new life, even Jo we a!fo fl!ould walk... in nevvnefs /Jf lift; For ·the fecond ~efiion,how is this tonformiry or vivification wrought? I 1! 1 all an– fwer only ro the flare, and. fo our vivification is ufually wrought in U> in this manner. As firfi, in the Underllandtng. Secondly in rhe will. Firfi, tht underllanding lers in rhe verity and"truth of whar rhc Gofpel bath record~ l~~n ~·4· ed. In him w.u lift, and the!ifewao thelight of mtn,-·-I 11m thtbrtad of lift ·herhat Joh~ ,;~;·,. cometh to me ]hall nt'l!tr hunger, llfld he that believeth on mt jh11ll nevtr thirft. --·-- I am J h the refltrrtflion and the life, ht that believtth in mt, though ht Wtrt dead, yet ]hall he live. 1 Jo~,:~·. 6~ 1/ am tbe tf'ay, the truth, andthe life.-- .And thu u tht ucord that Godhath givm to 12. m, tternallife, anllthu life u m hu Son, he that bath the SM, bath lift, and he th~tt hatb not theSon, hr.th 110t life. 2. This lighr let in, the underflarlding thence inferrerh as ro a man's own felf rbat by the affiflaoce of the Spirit of holinefs, who raifed up Jefus from the dead, it's 'polli– Eph. 2, 1, 2, bie for him to attain this life; others have attained it, and why not he? r,u hath he 3, 4, .~, 6, 7· '}Uickfned who """ dtad in trtfpnffis and fins; here's a prefident for a fin.fick foul • In time p<tjf ye walkfd according to the courfo of thu world, according to the Princt of the power of the air, the fpirit that now workph in the children of difebtdience; this was the !late of the Ephejians, but were they all r no, no; ye, and wt alfo, a~~tong whom alfo we had all our converfation in times paft.- ·- -- But God who u rich in mercy for hu great love wherewith he loved m, even when we were dead in ftns, hath quick[ned rl6 togethtr with Chrijl, --- that in ages to come he might Jhew ihee:o:ceeding richu •f hu gract in hu kjndnefs towards m throu:h Chrijl 1 efii!, Chr!fl's dealings with forne are as flags and Mat. 8 . 2 • pattern~?f mercy hung forth to tell, and to bnng others in : whence the underftanding __ 9 , 2 I. mfers, tt s pof!iblc for a de..d foul, yea for my dead foul to t.ve; others have t.wd, andwhy Ezek. 37· 4,5. may not I? I di{cover in theft Scri}'tures, tven in thefe preftdtnts a door of hopt to my felt; why Lord, if thou wilt thou CAnj/ make me clean ;--yea, if I "'"'Y but touch thy gar– ment, I ]hall bt whole; if thou wouldjl but fay, 0 ye drybonts hMr the Word uf the Lord, then breath tf'ou/d tl1ttr into me, and I Jhould live, (urtly if Chrift bt ri[enagai11 fromtht dead, there's no impoffibility but I may rife, if others havt bun raifed by the vmueof Chrift s refurreffion, why may not I .' However this may feem 10 be little or nothing, yet confidering the foul in a mourning, dark. difconfolareframe, under deep appre– henfions of fin, guilt, and wrath ; full of confufions, d1ftm'tions, defpondencies, flag– gering and finkinr, terrors; it will find it fomething, yea it wiU look on it as a glorious work to difcover bur the morning Still" through fo much darknefs any thing of l.ife, in fuch a valley and lhadow of death. 3. The underfiaoding bath yet fome brighter believing beams; it confidently do– feth with this truth, that it is the will of the Lord that he lhould come, and live, and believe, and lay hold on Chrifi; it apprehends the particular ,defigns of mer~y to him, and dotb really principle the foul with this, that God doth particularly call, mvite, and bid him come to Chrillthc Eoumain of life, for life. Now the underftanding takes in Mat. I I. 2 8. general Gofpel calls in particular to himfelf. It i.r my poor l•nguijhing foul which the Lord fpeak.J to, wherz he [ll_.Vts, come to me all ye that art wtary, and I give youreft.– Eph. 5· 14• .A1v~.kt thou that jleepeft, and arife fro "' tht dead, and Chrij/ ]hallgive!h~e light. Sure– ly thi; i; a great work when fet home by the Lord, that the foul acts m tts addreffes to <.:hrifl in the flrength of a pani<ular call from God. 2 • And now the anfwer to this call is wrought up in the renewed will; as thus.-- !. 1 he will furnmons all its confidences , and calls them off from every other bottom, to bellow them wholly upon Chri{l; anJ thi; confifls in our voluntary re– nouncing of all 01 her helps, excepting Jefus Chrifi alont; now rhe foul fayes to ldols, l!ol. I4. 3• Get ye her:ce, .Ajhur jha!l·not fave Uf, Wt will 1101 ride uponhorfos, neitherwillll't fay any more to then-.rk.J of Mr haJ<ds, ye are our gods. A(l>~~r fha/1 not [ave m. Not only c~nmt, but j/Jal! "o1 Jave m ; now as the foul is diff~ris~ed in judgment, as to, the rellmg on any thing but Chrift alone, fo the heart and Wi llis d1faffetl:ed ro.all other helps but Chrift aJ.one; now it renounceth its own righteoufnefs_, and wortlunefs, not Ol~Y be· caufe of their inability to fave, but mainly becaufe thttr glory is fwallowed up m that " unmatchablc
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