246 FP 3. 1011,4.15. DoFtr. 414 Ephefians, Chapo2. V E R,íb. with the (harpe flinging teeth of everlafting death and mifery, This muff ferve to flirre us up to feele our felves quickned with an everlafling life, and more and more to feeke and labour for the aug- mentationof it. The womanofSamaria when Chrift told her there were living waters, ofwhich who fo .dranke did never fo thirft more; thee cryed , oLordgive me of that mater. Looke up to Chrift that quickning fpirit,fhew him thy reliques offpirituall death,and prayhim to fwallow them upvk orioufly in the life ofgrace. Vr R. 6. vtnd hash raifed us up together. ] Refurredion is meta- phorical) orproper: Metaphoricall,when a man fwimmeth out offome deadly evils; Proper, when a man being fallendown bydeath, rifeth up by new quicknance: this is firft and fecond; The firft when the foul fallendowne from God into death offinne, doth come to be quickned with the life of God; The latter ofthe Body, whether extraordinary, which is the priviledgeof force few, or common to all : Now we that are in Chrift , have all kindes of refurredion after force manner: r. Our condition molt deadlywe get out of ; 2, Our foul is quickned; 3. For our body, it is hid in Chrift, we have it inhope. Obferve here, What Godbath given us in his Son, even the refurreili. on ofthere bodies : Wee are dead by reafon of finne, and there our bo- dies are fowen in mortality, and fee corruption, yet we have them in Chrift railed up ; yea, after a fort wee in prefcnt may fee this exem- plified; r. In that our head is raifed: for whatfoever may be Paid of the head, may be fpokenof the members. If the Head be fafe above water and living, the body may be faid , ( though covered) to live likewife : So that our Head Chrift Iefus having this refurre pion, we are already feifedof it in our head. 2. Againe we have it already 1 why e becaufe that power which muff raffe us up , it is with Chrift per modems redundantia : all things tending toour falvation are put in his hands : there is not a refurreÉlion and life , for his owne perfon alone, but the treafures of life , even the hidden life which every member muff have, is already fcifed by him. 3. Wee all of us have right to it , though we as yet enter not upon it. 4. Laft of all, wee have entrance even prefently, becaufe he rote for us, and reprefenting us, even as a Burgeffe ofa Parliament doth a Corporati- on : So that weefee where is the evidence of our refurreEfion, even Chrift raifed as our Head, is a moft infallible pledge unto us; If Chrift bee rifen, then muff wee, for our refurredion is bid in him. Nowour refurrefeion maybe confidered two wayes: r. As wrought inour Head. 2. As applyed aáually in us. As wee in regardof our natural) life maybeconfidered, a. As we have this life in our roote,in our parents,in whom we arefeminali ration, as ancareof corne is in the feed. a. Our life may be confidered as now in us received from them. Now
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