epartnottp,te tie tbine itt tbu.teg Chap. i Men ofFlappinefsafter this: life, thattheymight be,.r deed from a Rate ,of R,ebellton:to ti~dençe,. an4 therx affeéions; be refined and puriñed: from all-Earthlinefs and'madeAngelical and Heavenly. 'Nów the Principal,. dernoltrations which he ufed toper(wade Menof .thefe things, are the Death and;Refiurretn; iopfChrift,with- out which thefe. My(tetiesr. had -been ,under, a cloud. That the Infiru&ion therefore of`'the Spirit mightbe clear and effe6tual,it was neceffaryChriít fhould ,fuller: and enter intoHeaven, and accorplifh thole things hee was to teach. And from hence we may obferve that the lSan4ifying GraceoftheSpirit is the infeparable, concomitant ofthe: EvangelicalMercy. The Gofpel and the Spirit are the Wings by which the Sun ofRighteoufrefs liri`ngs; healing ána'lif"e.'tó,the World. The fupernatural declaration!ot. Juftice in the Law fromMount Sinai was not accompa-. vied with the efficacyof Grace: Therefore ,ris called á cer.3. 7. the minifiration: of .Death. It conveyed"no Spiritual.. firength as delivered by thehandsofMofes, canfidering himprecifely in the qualityof the legal Mediator, but threatned a Curfe to the breakers of- it. All the pro- 'mifesofMercy fcattered in thenooks ofMoles belong to theCovenant óf :Grace. The Gofpel .iscalledthe Lawofthe Spirit of,Life,] rind. the,Mipifreitionofthe4pj.- rit ; that is, "the Spirit ofHolinefs and .,'.Çomfort,frçt whom true and Eternal Life,proceeds,, isfolely cpfnmu- nicated"by it.; The natural =difcóvery of: the Divin Goodnefs in the Works,Qf" CreationandProyideneg,, is without the renewing pgwer ofthe Spirit. Them is a correfpondence between the external' Revelation of .Mercy, and the internal Graceofthe,Spirit in their 0= riginál;. as the ,one is fupernatural,fo is the other.:Not ,but that the Heathens had force: fainter beams ö£;the Sun ofRighteoufnefs, for he iialigbtens everym4n,that comes
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