th.Jt Chrift fbott!d d;e in my jl-ead tU tt f:ondemncdm•m, tWd when he had jinijbed his work._, that he fbould rife >~gt:tine in my jl-e11d tU a righteom pnfon. Thefc' 1'-tff.-'ges are p4t j.zthor11ing, and beyond bdetving; 0 wh.u Jhdf 1 do ? I findc it hard, vtry hard to heleeve this poynt. · Scrupulous fouls ! throw not away yourcot1fidence; ought not (hrift ;o ~~Vi~'ffereddth~f~~fihing~, and to enter inftodhbis gloryd? Luk.:-t.:o. was not .attstil.Llton, an JUnt cauon, payment o e · t, an difchargeof bonds required of him, and of neceffi ty for us ? 0 beleeve! and that I may perfwade to purpofe, I !hall lay down, 1. Some directions, and, 2. Some encouragements offaith. r. For directions of faith in reference to Chriih refurrection, obferve thefe particulars.- 1. Faith muft directly go to Chrift. 2. Faith muft go to Chrift, as God in the fleth. i· Faith muft go to Chrill, as God in the fieth, made under the law. 4· Faith muft go to ChriH, not only as made under the diredive part of the law by his life, but under the ~enal part by his death; ofall thefe before. . 5. Faith mufi go to Chrifl: as God in the fieth, made under tb.e directive and penatpart of the bw,and as quickned by the Spirit. He wM put to dwh in_ the fiefh (faith 'Pmr) but quickz;ed by the I Pet. , 8 Spirit. And accordtngly muft be·the method, and order of our 3 1 ' faith ; after we have looked on Clnrift a$ dead in the flefh, we mufr go on to feehtm as qurcknedhy the Spirit; if (1»-ift wM not C 1 - rlflijed-, or qJtick?Jed; (faith the Apoftle ) your faith wDr'e in vaii!Je, 1 or. 5 ' 11 ' q. d. to beleeve ro Chriil as on'ly in vefpeet ofhis birth.,life,deatb, and to go n,o further, were but a vaine faith; and therefore J fhore up your faith to this pitch, that Chrifl: who dyed,r:srifen from the dMd · to tb.is .purpofe all the Serm<i>ns of the Apofiles reprefen ted Chrift, ) riOt Qnfyra~tttlcifie.d, but as raifed . In that firft Sermon after the- r:niffio'n of the nolyGhoft, ye hav; crncified Cbrift (faid Peter to theJewes) and then it follows, >!'hom G~d Ad: ~.~3,24; 'hath rai[Mu]l, 'having l<J{J[t!at'hi: paine!, ·or:Chaine.r of death, becaufo it WM lf(Jt pof!ihie that h~ fboujd be holden of it. In that next Ser· inon Pun tells' th~ro againe, -Y<: hav~ killed the Prince of life; :and then it follows, whom God hath raifedfromthe dead, whereof ACl:·P >· Hhhhhz we
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