V E R.5. ephefianf,Chape2e zz5 Lifc is Attive and ftirring ; If 1 fee an Image fill without motion,! know for all the eyes and nofe, &c. it bath no life in it : So the want of fpirituall motion in the Souk to God-ward,and the practiceof god- lineffe,argueth want of fpirituall life. 4 Love to the brethren : By this we know, we are tranfittedfrets death to life; becaufewelave the brethren. S, =tott;14. This is a matter of admiration, ofjoÿ, and thankfgiving : If a man were recoveredof a deadly difeafe, when pact hope ; how would bee tell of it ; and hold himfelfe bound to the man by whole skill and en- deavour he bath been railed? How much more fhould we record and tell of Gods unfpeakeable mercy and love to us ; that when we were not onely lick in foule, but even (lark dead and void of all fpirituall life , leafs and motion, hath breathed into our dead hearts the breath of that fpirituall lifeofgrace, and bath made us now to fland up from the dead and live in his fight e Have not we caufe to rejoyce, and fay, VJ 1 Thanks be to G®d ; we were the fervants of Sin ? But if we creepe up out ofTome deadly frckne(Ie,we willtell of it and fay,What a glorious and wonderful) power ofGod was itto raife me e But when our fouls creep up out of fin and hellifh ignorance, the darkneffeof death, how fhould this much more affect and caufe us to magnifie fuch a power of God ? Rom.6.t7. This letteth us fee the fearefull condition ofunregenerate men,they ZÌ lie expofed to the fun as dead carcaffes, the flinke ofwhofe nature is Natural) men noiforne to each living creature : That they cannot fee it, is becaufe the light of Nature, through the flrength of rebellious affections and common cuftome in finne, is fo extinguifhed that it cannot truely infor me the confcience touching our own conditions; and in that we ferle it nor, it is becaufe our hearts are !tone dead, and utterly void of that power of life conferred by the holy Ghoft, which fhould indeede make them feefe the difeafe of finne. very tarkalle, t Fearefull therefore is the effare of thofe men which never once fufpect themfelves of nourifhing this monfler,which feedeth it felfe thong in them, todeprive them of life , but hand over head, flecp in their filthinefl'e, and never examine themfelves as touching any token of fpirituall life, to fecure themfelves ofpart and portion in that blefîed land of the living. In this eftatemen fare as they which arc infecked with fome mortali Peflilence; who although they are tainted, yetnot feeling it,go about their bufineffecheerfully,eat, drinke and aremerry, yea, and make a jell, and tufh at the plague, and behold fuddainely are thicken themfelves and layd in the grave: So an unregenerate man having both the difeafe of finne in his bones, yea, and the funeftal and deadly markes in hisfoule, yet being voyd of that rare grace of godly wifdome to difcerne it, runnethon in his dying life from towne- totowne, fromhoufe to houle, infetling others with the (linkof his fores, and runningbotches, yea,and playcs with finne in his common talke, as a childe doth with a fawningcurre in a thing, till it being toostrong for him, plucks him downe to hell, and returnes upon him stmt. X with
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