Chap.3 .Sect 9· L,;oking rmto re[m. Book.IV.Parr. 3· 6n --~- am I rhm ?fo,if fin be mortified, faith the foul, why am I tbm?- trembling foul,let nor this difcourage; Jefus Chrift was not dead fo foon as he was fa!l:ened ro the croffe; Bur haft thou taken the -fame courfe with rhe body of!ln that the Jews did with the body of Chrifi ! bafr thou arraig;1ed ir, accufc:d it , condemned ir., and fafteqed it to the crolfe? haft thou arraigned it at the bar of Gods judgement, accuf~d it by way ufhumble and hearrywnfeffion, condemned it in palling the fentence of eterf,Ja] condemnation upon thy fel fe for it, and fafiened it to the croffe in beoinning the execution of it, in ferting upon the mortification of ~with a ferious and unfeigned refolution to ufe all meanes for its mor tifying and killing ? why then be not d!fheartened,it may be thou feel eft ir !l:irring , and ftrugling within thee; and fo wiH a crucified man do, and yet in the eye of the law, and in the account of all men that fee him, he is a dead man ; furely fo is the body offin when it is thus crucified ; though it ftill move and il:ir yet upon a Gofpel -account, and in Gods eftimation it is no bet~er than dead ; and it !hall certainly dye, it fha,ll decay, and languith, and dye more and more ; is not the promife expreffe ? he th~t hath heg::n the good w&rk.,he w!ll pe,feEl it tv the daJ. v['fef UJ PhiL 1 . 6 ,- Chrtft. Ofthts Patti was confident tn beh.tlfe of hts Ph:iippians , and of this let all true bdeevers refr confident in refpeer of. thc:mfelves. Thus far we fee wherein we , mufi conforme to Chri!l:, vi;;;.. in his graces, in his fufferings, and in his · death. For the fecond Q!_xre, what is the caufe of this conformity? I anfwer, The dea th ofChrill is the~ caufe of this conformity ;. And that a fourefold caufe. - --- \ I. It is a meritf) •·ious caufe; Chrifis death was of fo great ai price tha·. ir defcrved Jt Gods bands our conformity to Chrifi. Chrifllovrd the Church, ,tnd ::, ttve himfeife (o r it, thflt bJ hu death:E h 6 . h · 1 r "'fi · J 1 r · . P · f .25,1 , e n;tg.Jt JMtut ett, an.:< c M11 1e It: --a ~r~d preji.11t tt to himfeife a ,_7 , gforicm Church not h.a•i>sg JPot Dr wrinkle ~r nnJ fuch thing, but. that it fhould be holy and with.ut b!tmifh. 2 . It is an exempla,r~: caufe,. He ft<[f redfor PA , lea1:1ing uum exampkthatwr(boulafu!lowhf.ofjfeps, hedyed fortis leaving ust Pet .%.11. • . an example th l t We rlwuld d}~e to .fin, (LS be dyed for finne · we may ob~erve i:1 many p:u ticu!iFs (befides tbofe I haye nam~d) a proportiOn, analogy, a.:d li'kencfle betwixt Chrifis death and R r r r 3 ' ours i .
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