208 Twenty Direetionsfor denying-Life. repair fain man,it was the fpirit of Chrift informing the foul that caufed the Renewed foul to communicateagain a digni- ty to the bodies of fan6tified men aboveother bodies. And fo when the body was dead becaufe of fin, ( having the root of fin and death within it, andbeing mortal therefore) yet the fpirit was life becaufe ofRighteoufnefs ( being theRoot of holy and Righteous difpofitions,and of the new life in man iiimfelf.) Worn. 8. io. For Chrift the principal root of life and the fpirit and holinefs, are firft in order ofnature in the foul, and but by communicationard fecondarily in the Body : But contrarily, fin made its, entrance firft by the Body , and bath its Root and Seat, firft in orderof nature in the body ; and fo is communicated to the foul : Thus fin comes in at the back-door even at the wrong end, and by the bafer part : But Grace comes in the right way by theNobler part; fin bath its Root in the viler part : but Chrift bath his feat firft in the better part. Andyet I mnft add r. That fin is not ripe till it reach the will, though it enter by the flefh and fenfes : it is not formed, nor tobe called fin till it reach the will, and as there it is fcituated : but yet the thing it felf is firft in and by the flefh : 2. And the will is truly the feat of Original fin it felf, as well as the fenfitive part : but not the firft Root of the corruption. Though fin be wall in the Rational part, becaufe the corruption of the beft is worft, yet it is not firfl there. But Holinefs is firfi alfo in the foul, and fo communi- cated to the body. And fo alfo Glory it felf will be. And therefore take notice of the wifeand gratious providenceof God, that taketh the foul to heaven before hand that it may be firft Glorified, and fo may be fit to communicate glory to the body : And fo as theNatural Soul dignified the Natu- ral Body, and the SantlifiedSoul didSanblifle the body, fo the Glorified Soul by reunionwith the body fhall communicate its katurt to the body at theRefurreftion, and fo it will be made fpiritual, immortal and incorruptible by the foul ; and foul and body, are made fuch by Chrift. So that by this time you may fee that there is more Realm for the Refurrellion for all the body is turned toearth, then there isReafon that a Candle that gone cut fhould be lighted again
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