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He lt.vtth
ro God. There is our
Jimt!ttude
of His
refurreflto'!:
ourf~conda•-
>In livin
,,.
com
tmuli be, Compryourfelves
lwmg tmto God.
Now,howrhatls, hcharhalrea-
G 0 D. I
die~old
us (in rhe fourth
verfe)
even,
towalkez~>rmrmejfeof
life. Towalke,isro
move.
movmg
is a
.,
1
taf!M1ton,
and arguerh
life.
Bur, It muft nor be any
life;
our
old
will nor ferve; it muft be
anew life;
we.mu~norrerurnebackeroourfonner
r,
bur paffc over ro anorhernewconverfanon. Andmawatd(asbefore)to
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God
(with
Sat~r
Paul
here) is·tO hve
ficuwdt~m
Deum, arcording to
God,mth~:
Spirtt
(wtth
Saincfeter,
I
Peter
4.6.)
And, then hvewe
acrordt~g
toHtm,
when Hts
{!
·s our
law
HIS
Word
our
r~~le,
Hts
Sons life
our
example,HtsSpmt,
rarherthan
~~r ~wne
Jo
11
!e:.thegutdeo[
our actions. Thus !hall we be
grafte~tnto
thefimtlttrdo
of
ll
iJ
Rejitrreflton.
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Now, this
Jimilitttde of the Rtjitrree1ton,cal!eth
t~
my mmde,.aMther
Jimtlttu'do
ofthe
Jlifitrreffion,
inthis lifetoo, whtch I finde mScnprurc menr.10ncd; 1t fitteth us.
well:
it
will not bcamiffe, to remember you of lt,by the way,Jt will make us the
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beiter willing, to enter into this accomp:·
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.
At rhe rime that
I{aac
!hould have bm
offered
by hts Father,
Ifaac
was nor flame:
Gcn.u.r:
very neere it he was;
ther~
was
jire,an~
there was a
kni[e,and
he
w~s
appointed ready
tobe a
Sacrifice.
Of whtchcafeof hts, the
<.Apojlle,
mthe me9t10nof hts Father
vfGrahams faith ( Heb.
u.)
<:Abraham
(fatth hee) by Fatth
>•J<Ci,.B,;®-,
madefl•llac•
l!ct.r.u.s 9 ;
compt,
if
I(aac
had beene flame, G o o
w,u
able to raife hnpfrom the dead:
And even
- ....
ft.om the dead,
G o o
raifed
him, and his
Father
received
him,<.."':'~·~~~
in a certaine
Jimilitridt, or after .afort.
Marke that well :
Railing Ifltac,from
1mmtnenrdanger of
prefentdeath is(wlththe<.Aplljlle) akmde
o(Rc(t.rreflton.
Andtftt beefo, and
jfthe Ho
L
y
G
H
o
s
T
warrant usto call that, a kmde of
Re{terreflion.
how call
we but on this
Day,
the
Day of the Ji.efrmeflion,
call to inlride, and witl;all render
tmt~
Goo our unfained thankes and praife,for our
lateRe{tm·eflion
''~'''~-,for
o11r
kiwde sfrefurrellim;
Hee not long lincevouchafedus. Our cafe, waslfa.c'scafe,
without doubt: there was
fire;
and in Head of a
knife,
there was
powder
enou_gh, and
we weredeligned all of us, and even ready to be
facrijiced,
even
Abraham,
IJ
aac,
and
all. Certainely
if
I(
aac's
were,ours was a
kinde
ofre(t~rreflion:
and we fo to acknow–
ledgeit.
vVe
were as necre as he; we were not only within the
Dominion,
but with-_
in the
rerge,
nay evenwithin the very
gates of death.
From thence hath Go o raifed
us, andgiven us,this yeare,rhis
Jimilitride
of
there(urreaion,that
wemight,thisday
of
theRefumaion
of His
S~n,prefenr
him,with this (in the Text) of
rijingto anew
courfe
~f
life.
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And now (to returne to our fa!hioning our
[elves,liketo Him,in
thefe: )As,there
is a
death natural!,
and a death
Civil/;
fo is there a·death·morall, both in
Philofopbie,
and in
Divinitie :
and, if a
death,
then confequently,
arifi<rrefliontoo.
Every
great and notable change, of our courfe oflife,whereby we are not now any longer,
the fame men, that before we were, bceitfromworfeto better, or from better to
worfe,is a
moral! death : A moral!death,
to
that,we change from; and
a
rnorallrefar.
rellton, to
that we
c!J~ogeto.
If
w~
change to thebetter.'that is
fins.dtatb:
if we a.l–
tertothewOife,rhat
tsjins refrmeelton :
when we
commtt fin,
we dte, we are dead xn
~n;
when we repent, we
revive
~gaine: ~vhen
we repent our felvcs of our repen-
ting, and
r<lapfe
backe, then.finne nfeth agame, from the
dead:
and fo
toties qHoties.
!'ndeven upon thefetwo,as rwo hmges,rurneth our whole life. All our life is [pent
tnoneof them.
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Now then, that we be nor,all our life long,thus offand on,faft or loofe,in
/:locfce
rAnd '""
out nettle, and in nettle o11t docke :
itwillbehoveusoncemoreyet tolookebacke
'""[ot.U,
upon our
fimiliter
&
vos;
even upon
thewordip.;,.~,
feme!,
once. That is, that wee
n~t. on~l.Y d~e
tofin,
and
live to
Go o ; bur
tlye
and
liv:,
as He did,(rhar is)
once for
~a~tw
1
{;~
1
s a~
utter abandoning,
~n•e,
of
Jinnes dominion:
and a continual! con.
times
~er
1
mg, xn agood
courf~
once begun.
Sinncs dominion,
it languifi1eth fome•.
Grace
1
l.~s,
1
and
falleth hapl)' mto a
fwouve
,
but it dyeth not quire,
once
for all.
' Ittet 1
U[>
the eye, and looketh up
a
lirtle,
aria
giveth fome !igne of life; but
never.
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