V ER.2O. Epbeians,Chap.I. I85 forth to make Adam a living fpirit, was it which Bothquicken us inour order,andbring us to have life and being from him : Thus the felff fame power which railed Chrift to be a fecond Adam and quickning fpirit to all who belong to him, that is the power which doth calk us inour time receive this fupernaturall life and being from him : For Chrift his refurreâion is both the refurredion ofour foules and bodies, in asmuch ashe is raifed up, that he may bea fountaine and roote ofall fupernaturall life; his humane nature concurring with the divine, as an inftrument with that which is more principall in the producing of it. By this we fee further the vanityoffuch, who make God to doeno- thing in ourconverfion, but that whichwe may refift : Could we refill hispower, which made the firft L./11ma fountaine ofgeneration unto us all e And dull we be able to refill the almighty powerof God, railing Chrift as a fountaine and roote of fpirituall regeneration toall who arc his This thould make us thankfull to God, that he hath put forth fuch power towards us, in the refurredion ofhis Sonne. Wee deemeit ashis favour, whodid appoint wee fhould defcend carnally from the firft parent ofus, according to the flab ; but this isfarremore worthy of praife, that even in railing, hee thould thinke on us, and appoint us to receive a refurre' lion offoule and body fromhim, in due time and order. Obfervefecondly, that Chrift is raifed fromRateof the dead, that God doth leavehisdeareft children to thedepthof miferies, ,before he fend reliefe : His owne Sonne left to confíiEt with a f pirituall kinde of death, with defertion in regardoflove eclipfed, which impreflion of wrath, as due to ourtimes, withall the powersofdarkenetfe,affayling him with natural! death in regards before opened ; his owne Sonne I left to this gulfe of evils, before falvationwas filmed: This hedoth toglorifie hispower, which doth not fobrightly appeare till things are defperate. Secondly, that we might the better in extremities learne to trutt on him, to bringus to this,heis glad to makeour cafes pall all help we canperceive. And thirdly, to the end he may the more endearehis benefits, he Both let us conflict long in thewant ofthem. Letus not then bedifmaied what ever we fuffer:I hope wearenot yet cometo death ; let us looke at Chrift, and not with tobe free from fuch condition, which our Lord andMatter hath endured beforeus : The ra- ther let us have patience, however we be tryed, becaufe God cannever comewith helpetoo late, as menmay, who bring things fometime to no purpofe, when the matter is pall helpe. In thát chrifi zs raild ; Obferve, that God never fo leaveth his, but hefendeth falvation induetime : He left his people in Egypt, in Babylon, till their civili flate was dead and defperate; yet he delivered them. Ifhe let them be fwallowed, like ions, yet he will bring them forthagaine, and thew them his falvation, for God is ahelper at timeof neede ; fuch is his faithfulneffe, in the Mountaine he will provide, as R 3 sib,ähani v a; fr fe 2. Dof .a± f fe Dot. 3.
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