Chap.-z.Secr.9 L ooking unto 1ef«f. B.oo~ IV.Pan.4 8os .dion doth more efpecia!ly conGfr; the Apofrle; anfwer · is very expreffe, /if<! tU (hrift WM raifed up frc_m the dead 6y the g;ior; of Rom. 6. 1 • the Father: even fo we alfo fbou!d V!!alk m newneffi of lrfe. Cbn!ts refurretl:ion was to newheffe of life ; it was.a new life, a life different from that which he lived before, and fo is our vivification a new life. it is a life ofa new principle; of new aCl:ings, of a new frate,of ~new rdation,ofa new in·come,and of a new kind, or manner. 1 , It is a lite of a new principle, before vivification our princiIJle was thdldh, or world, or devil; In rime paft re walk[d llC. cording tQ the courfe·of thu world, According to the Pri>tce of the power of the ayre, the JPirit that now w~rk.§th in the .c~ildren of dif- Eplu. z. obedience; but now we have a new.prmctple, a ~pmt ofholinefs, or fanetification, the Spirit ofGod; even the fame Spirit which .dwelt in the humaae nature ofChrift, and raifed him; if.tbe Spirit ofhim tht~traifed up {efus from the dead dwell in JOU; it is Rom. 8, u . an in-dwelling _Spirit; even as the foul dwells in the body, fo doth the holy Ghoft dwell in the foul of a regenerate pe:rfon, animating, and atl:uat!ng, and enli~~ning.it. This is the new principle , that God puts m us after .YIVtficatton. · 2. It is a life of new atl:ings. According to our principle, fo be our atl:ings; they that ~re after the fiefb do minde the thing.r&f R . 8' . the jlefb, b11t they that are of the Spirit, the things of the Spit it. om • S'. Iffome men heare of a good bargaine they minde it, they finde their fouls going on with much atlivity • there is fomethiog ir.J them proportionable to that which is propounded; but if they _, heareof divine love , and ofrhe riches ofgrace, they finde their fouls flat, unmoveable, and dead, t~ey minde no f~ch things; now on the other fide, they that are Nlvtfied, accordmg to their principle they put forth their power more or le1fe; ifthey heare of the glorious things ofthe Gofpel, they fin de inward workings (unle!fe it be urrder a temptatioH) they finde their fouls drawn out to clofe with the goodnelfe of the thing propounded: they minde the thints of the Spirit, (i.) they mufe and meditate and think on thefe things ; they affeCl: them, and love them, a~d like them , they care for them, and fee~ after them with might an<! maine; they live in the Spirit, they walk)n the Spirit, they are.GaLr.tr. Jed by the Spirit, they ferve in nn:vnejfeoftbe Spirit. How might R.om.S·1 • '4• we try0urvivi6cation even by thefe actings of our' principle Rom.' 6 · Kkkkk 3 ~~h ..
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