iV E R.IO. ephejianr,Chap.t. z6, Gods children doth as far outtlrip the greateft Princes and Monarchs in the world, in gloryand honour, as the (late of the pooreft bridge- begger is inferiour to the greateft Potentates upon the earth. Again, it doth teach us, towhomwe are to afcribe whatfoever we 1 z: are ; we mutt fang with the faithful(, Not we our feIves, but the Lords cioriee cod hands have made us to be his people , even the 'beep of his paflure, Pfal. too. 3. for fo the new creatures are fometimes called. Yea, this let- And hill de- teth us fee, on whom we mutt depend for the promoting and pre- pond on /Inn. fcrving of this creature; for it is his part to govern and preferve, who doth mightily bring forth; he beginneth,he mull end : Shall God tra- vel!, and not bring forth a If we be lumps of flefh unfhapen, he can form and fafhion usfromglory toglory by his ¡pirit, a Cor.3. t8. In chrifi:] Here we fee in whom it is; though all our falvation is 23'°a afcribed to God, yet the perfon in and by whom we come to have theft Chrihwe receive all things, is thrift lefun. And it doth not onely note the order of work- good. ing, but it noteth who is, as it were, the root in whomall the heirs of life are framed: yea, it noteth tous the merit ofChrift, that hath pro- cured this for us with God, and the eflrcacieof Chrift Jefus, who is a quickning head, indue order reviving every member. For firft, before we come to have this lifeof God dwelling in us, I; the Lord bath aftera fort wrought in Chrift : For as all of us had life given us in Adam radically,(yea, thofe that have not yet being) fo that they (hall defcend from him by carnali propagation; fo God hath made Chrift a common flock, from whom he will have every one to draw life, which is treafured in him, not that carnally they mutt de- fcend,but by a fpirituall ingraffing of them into him.In him therefore, as a fecond edam, hath God created us again. But this is not all, for even inChrift we have this, not onely be- caufe it is firft laid down in him , but becaufe he hath deferved we fliould be made by God new creatures: becaufe God hath in Chrift firft reconciled us to himfelf; a Cor. 5.18. Chrift did give his life for the life of the world. Again, [in Chri'l] becaufe he doth effedlually apply this unto us, 3. and in our time dothquicken us : He is that quickning #iris, the Lord from heaven, n Cor.15.45 So then this doth teach us, that God by Chrift hath quickned us ; y.% How greatly are we bound to him for it is but fpeaking the word, Chrift actor- and it is done, in the firft creation of all things ; here more is requi- ding ;y, red, the givingof his Son, fending him down from heaven, not (pa- ring him : Chrift did not fay [Be Paved,] but indured words, (tripes, yea an accurfed death, that he might be a treafury of thofe things for us, and a difpenfer of them unto us, when we firftcome to have fpiri. tuall being. unto good works: ] Here many things mutt be marked ; Firft, How Dottr. r. that the new creature, and new works go together; the one cannot be The newcrea- fevered from the other. When once we come to put on the new man, ,00rrehgarhnew we 'hall then finde that our actions (hall be reformed; this might be A a a fhe wed i
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