----------------------------------------------~ llzek37•4· dead jba/L heare the vo;ceof the fon of Goa, and they thAt hearejball live. Now is the foul vivified, now it begins to live the life of God, now it feeles the power ufChrifis refurreCtion, and is made conformable to it; And immediately upon this, joy is made in heaven by the Angels, God himfelfe applauding it, for this m1 {on WM dtad, and u alive, he wM loft and u /Dtmd. Thus i& the fi:ate of vivification wrought. I know it is not in all men after one manner for every circumfrance; the method> ofGod are exceeding various; and we cannot limit the holy one of Ifrael; I have fornetimes concerning this defired the com::. munications ofothers thoughts, whom I looked upon as fuch, who bad more than ordinary communion with Chrifts Spirit ; and from one offm;h I received this anfwer, I muft profejJe to you, I have iu all my [peculatims in divinity found dijfntisfaflion in the writings ~f men in nothing more, th11n .in the work__ ofcleare anti diftinEt conceptions concerning regeneration ; which yet is of fuch a cardinal importance, at that the great doores ~f heaven move upon thebingesofit,theLordenlightenmmore, forwc feelmt inpart, ,and prophejie bul in part. For the third queftion, what are the meanes of thinonformity, or vivification which we rnuft ufe on our parts ? I fhall anfwer herein both to the ftate, and growth of our vivification. AsI. Waite and attend upon God in the miniftry of the Word, this is a meanes whereby Chrift ordinarily effecteth this vivification. By this meanes it was that thofe dead bones were quickned in E~ekfel.r prophefie, vi~. by the Prophets prophefying upon them. Andhefaid unto me, fon of mlln,- ·prophejie upon theft bones, andfay unto them,O ye dry bones1mtre the Word of the Lord; And by this meanesitis that dead fouls are quickned; theminifiry of the Word is the trumpetofJefus·Chrift, when that founds, who knows but he tnay quicken the dead ? harken therefore to thisWordofGod. , 2. ACt faith upon the Lord Jefusas to juftificatien. As is the clearnetfe and fixedneffe of our fouls in bottoming our felves on Chrifl for righteoufneffe, fo will be our quickneffe, and fuccetfeful progrelfe in the work of holineffc; becaufe M11ryes fin:r which ''ll>ere many were forgiven b~r, thlmfore foe loved m11ch; butto.whom litt le is forgiven, the f.'WJcio"'mbli:rle. Many a foal lofeth much of
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