77 6 Book IV. Part. 4· Looking unto .'!}tjtu, Chap.:1.Setl.4 / \ ' E.ph.~.P. 1 .Pet, :,9. yea {hall a man like it, love it, live in it, and yet fay or imagine that Chrifrs refurreetion is his'? 0 be not deceived, God is not mocked 1 come, fearch, cry, examine, haft thou any £hare in Chrifrs .paffion? knoweft thou the fellowlbip of his fufferings? art thou rr:ad-. conformable to his death, that as he dyed for fin, fo thvu dyefr ro (in? if herein thou art at a frand, perule thofe cha~aeterslayd down in his futferings and death, the truth and growth ofour mortification, or ofour death rinto lin is difcovered before. · , 2. If Cbrifrs refurreetion be mine, then is Chrifh Spirit mine, yea then am I quickened by the Spirit ofChrjft. If any man have not the Spirir of Chrift, her! none of h~ :-·-But ~(the Spirit of him that raifed t<f' 'fef a.r fnm the dead dwell inyou, then he th:u raifed up Chrift from rhc drtid fhall 11/fo quick..en r· Ul' mortal bodyes (and I may adde your immortal fouls) 6y hu Spirit thnt dwelleth inyeu. Chrifrs Spirit (tfChrifrs refurreetion be ours) will have the fame operation and effeCt: in our fouls that it bad in his body; as it raifed up the one, fo it will raife up the other ; as it quickened the one,fo it will quicken the other. But the 'queflion here will run on, how {hall we kno'wwhether we have received this quickening Spirit? many preknd to the Spirit, never more than at this day, but how rnay we be affered that the Spirit is ours? I anfwer--- J. The Spirit is a Spirit ofillumination; here is the beginning ofhis work, he begins in light; as in the firfr cre~tion, the firft-bornt;:ofGods works, was light, God[aid, let there be light, nnd there w.u light; fo in this new creation,the firfr work is light, God who commanded the light to jhine out of dark,nef{e hath foined into our heart!, to give the light of the ~o •l'ledge of the glory ofGod in theftlce ofTefm Chri.ft. Hence the ft ate of nature is called dar~effe, and the ftare of grace is called light; ye were fometimts dark.,mjfe, b~t now ye are light in th1· L ord. And he hath calledyou ~ut ofdarkmffe intq hu marveilom l:;'!,ht. There is a light in the mind!!, and a light in the heart, of thofe who have the Spirit of chrift; there is a fpeculative and an efied:ive knowledge, not only to know the truth, but to love it, beleeve it, embrace it. 0 my foul, wouldft thou know-whether Chrifls Spirit be thine? .confider, and fee then whether any of this new light of Jefus Chrift hath £hined into thy heart; take heede, deceive not thy (~lfe1
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