394 Zijt Partnoupof Mt ttríbtttel Chap. a o. Grave. And 'tis obfervable,that our Saviour who fome- -Y-s times concealedhis miraculous works, and forbid the publifhingofthem, yet performed this kind before ma- ny Witneffes, that they might publith and verifie it, as being moil conclufive of his millionfrom God. He raifed Mar-s. 42. to life the Rulers Daughter, to the aftonifhment ofall that were prefent to attendher Funeral. The Widows Son of .11laim was carried without the Gates of the City to hisGrave, Jefus flops the fad train, and reflores life to the young Man, and to his Mother fomething moredear than her life. And themore fignallyto tri- Luk 7.15. umph over Death, he purfued it to its fort, the obfcu- rity of the Grave. Lazarus was buried four days, his Carcafe was corrupted, Jefus calls him from the bot- tom of his Tombwith thatPowerful voice that created the World ; The Dead anfwers and comes forth, to theamazement of all that fawthe Glory of God fo clear- John II. 4 ly manifefted. The Evangelift reports that the Peo- ple afterwardwere as defirous to fee Lazarus as . Jefus. Add to thefe his calling, out of Devils,. Before the Fall, the unclean Spirit was incorporated.with theSer- pent, but now with Man himfelf. He feizes on the External Organs and.Internal Faculties, and rules him at his pleafure.. In the timeof Chrif}great num- bers were poffeft: for the. Devil perceiving the ruine ofhis Kingdomapproaching, would extend the limits ofit here, and by the perfeópoffefling offinners,be- gin their torment, which is one adofhis Principality. cafe of thofe perfons was molt compaffïonable. For in that clofe fightthe foul was difarmed of its de- fenfive weapons, being hindred. in a great meafure of the free ufe of its faculties. Whereas in other Temp- tations he works by outwardobjets at a diftance,here hemakes a violent affault on both parts.. 'Tis the true anticipation of Hell, for the poifeft perfon. is not ex-. empted
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