Chap.z.Se6t.5 LoDking unto 1efm. Booic IV,Parr.4 791 in me, or in my power, what [welling~ and excrefcencies ofpride fhould J quickly nounili? God there!ore hath placed it in another, that I may be kept low; and that I may go out of my felfe tofeek ie wher\! it is. 2. That I mufl: attribute wholly, freely, " joyfully, all that I am .to Jefus Chnfl:, and to the e~ectual work· Gal. t. :o: ing of his grace. I hve,Jet not I,bM (hrijl liveth tn rm. And hythegraceofGod Jam what/am; andi laboNred mvre abtm-'Cor,,po. d~tntly than they tlil,)et not I, but the .~raceofGod ~~hich was n>itb mr. The life of grace fprings only from the life ana refurrection ofJefns Chrifi:, and therefore as I ?lufl: deny my felfe, fo I mufi: attribute all to him from whom1t comes. 3. I mufl: lye at his feet with an humble exped:ation of, and dependency upc>n him and him alone for the fupplies of grace, this was the Apoflle; praCl:ife, 0 that I may be found in h·m 1 0 that I may k!1vw hiln, and the power of his refurreftion! --0 that by an) meanes I might attaine unto the refurreEJion of the dead! f.e lay at Chri(tSfeer with an humble exped:atton to feele the power of Chrifl:~ refurred:ion, in railing him firft frorn the death of finne to the life of grace, and after from death of nature to the life ofglory. 2. Lay to thefe fprings thy mouth of faith; it is not enough to have all the treafuries ofgrace, all the ad:in~s of Chrifl for thee, layd before thee, but thou ~ufi art thy faith upon that ob. jeet : 0 then go to Cbrifi$ refurrecrion and beleeve, make a particular application ofthofe glorious effects of Chrifl:s refurred:ion upon tty foul. Say, Lord thou dyedjf th,,t 1 mig~t d;e to fin. and thou w.1jf raifed from the death that I might be raifed to wwneffe of life. Come Lord, and quickfn my drittg JP..crkp, g ve meto fay hold on Chri/f.r reftrt'1'eClion, giv~ me tr1 .1dher e to it, and to rcft upon it, and to clvfe with it; I (envirhout ("ith I am nere a whit better for Chri/fs refurreftion; and thy commands .ue upon me,. op~n thy mot.~tk wide, ~nd ~wi!(fi!i it=. n>h] Lord, I bdeevf. ht!p thou my Plal.8 i. Io; tmbeluf. Tht$ fa1th 15 nece1fary to our Vtv>ficat>on as-well as MJ,k 9· 1+- Chrift. ( hrift is the founraine ofl!fe, bur faith is the meanes of life; the power and original ofhfe is intiwy ref~rved to Jefils Chrifi, but faith is the radical band on our part wh!n:by we are tyed unto Chrifi, and live in Chrifl:; and rhuj faith Chrift hnnfelfe,lamtherefurreftion and the ltje, i~ thatall? no ; hethat]oh.u . :~, beleeveth in me, thongh he were dead,yet he fballlive. And I am the bread of life, is that all? no, he that comrth to me jball neve If.
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