Cbap.2 .Secl.9. Looking rmtu!fe(t14. Book.lV.Part.lV. ,,, hHnger, and he that b~leeveth on me /hall ne~tr thirft.-1 am ·the J oh , IJ . ~5 · refHrreClion 11nd the life, he that beleeveth m me, though he llJere dead, yet fha/1 hr: live. I am the w~y the truth nnd ~he life. --: Joh.•4 6. • And tht4 is the record that God hathgtven to m,eternallife, and rhu l]oh. r .JI ,h · Jife iJ in his Son, he that hath the Son,hath life, and he that hath not the Son,hath not life. · · 2. This light let in, the undedl:anding thence inferreth as to a mans ownfelfe, that by the affifianceof the Spirit of holinetfe who raifed up Jefus from the dead, it's poffible for him to attaine this life; others have attained it, and why not he? JOH hath he quic{znrd who were dettd in trefpa jJ es andfins; here's a ·prefident Eph. 2 · t ·. for a fin .fick foul; in dme paft ye wa!k._ed acaording tothe courfe of 1.. 3• this world, according tothePrinceof the power of the IIJYC, the fpirit ~· r. -,.hat now work§th in the child-ren ofdifobedience; this was the tl:ate · 7 • of the Ephejiam, but were they all? no, ·no; J', and we alfo, wmong whom aljo we h11d all our converfation in times paft.-But God who is rich in mercy for . hiJ great lov~ wherewith he loved '"• even when we were dcad ·in fin!, hath quick._ncd m together with Chrift,- that inages to come he might jhew the exceeding t'iches of hugract in his kjndnej{e towards m through Chrift 'fefm. Chrifts -dealings with fome are as flags and patternes ofmercy hung forth to tell ,and to bring others in : whence the undertl:anding_ infers, its poffible for a dead foul, 7ea for my dead foul to live; others hv. ve lived,and why may mt I? I difoover in thofe Scriptures, even in Mat,8., . -rhefe prejident1 adore of hope to mJ feife; why Lord, if thou wilt, - 9.%r. thou canft mt~/z.e me c!eane; --yea,,jf I may but touch thy garment, Eu k-3 7 •J., 5• !/hall be whole ; if thou wouldft but fa;, 0 ; edrJ bones heare the Word of the Lord, then breath woultl ent.er into me,-.111d I fhou fd live, ,~ttsre l)' if Chrift .be riftn againe f;om the dead, thm's no impoffibility bra I may rife, ifothet s have been raifed kr the ver·tue of Chrifts n (urr·eCtion, why ma; not 1? however this may feem to be little or nothiFJg, yet confidering t'he foul in a mourning, dark, difc<>nfolate frame, under deep apprehenfions of fin, guilt, and wrath ; full ofconfufions, difl:ractions, defpondencies, fi:aggering 'an~ linking t ~rrours ; it wi!I. finde it fomething, yea it will look on 1t as a glonous work to dt1cover but the morning fl: ar through fo much darkneffe , any thing of!Jfe, in fuch a valley and !hadow of death. · · · 3· The underft anding hath yet fome brighr~r beleeving L Jill 2 beames
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