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Epbeians,Chap.I.
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forth
to
make
Adam
a
living fpirit,
was
it
which
Both
quicken
us
in
our
order,
and
bring
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
in
our time receive this fupernaturall
life and
being from him
:
For
Chrift
his
refurreâion
is
both
the refurredion
of
our foules and bodies,
in as
much
as
he
is
raifed up,
that
he
may be
a 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
vanity
of
fuch,
who
make
God to doe
no-
thing
in
ourconverfion, but
that which
we may refift
:
Could
we refill
hispower, which made the
firft
L./11m
a
fountaine ofgeneration unto
us
all
e
And
dull
we be able
to
refill
the almighty power
of
God,
railing
Chrift
as
a fountaine and
roote
of
fpirituall regeneration
to
all
who
arc
his
This
thould make
us
thankfull
to
God,
that
he
hath
put forth fuch
power towards us,
in
the refurredion
of
his
Sonne.
Wee deemeit
as
his
favour,
who
did appoint wee fhould defcend carnally
from the
firft
parent
of
us,
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
of
foule and body
fromhim,
in
due time and
order.
Obfervefecondly, that Chrift
is
raifed
from
Rate
of
the dead, that
God doth
leave
his
deareft children
to the
depthof
miferies, ,before he
fend
reliefe
:
His owne Sonne left to
confíiEt
with
a
f
pirituall kinde
of
death, with defertion
in
regard
of
love eclipfed,
which
impreflion
of
wrath,
as
due
to ourtimes, with
all
the
powers
of
darkenetfe,affayling
him
with
natural!
death
in
regards before opened ; his owne Sonne
I
left
to this gulfe
of
evils,
before falvation
was
filmed:
This
he
doth
to
glorifie his
power, which doth not
fo
brightly
appeare
till things are
defperate.
Secondly, that
we might
the better
in
extremities learne
to
trutt
on him, to bring
us
to this,he
is
glad
to make
our
cafes
pall
all
help
we
can
perceive.
And thirdly, to the
end he may
the more endeare
his
benefits, he Both
let
us
conflict long
in
thewant
of
them.
Let
us
not then be
difmaied
what
ever we fuffer:I hope
we
are
not yet
come
to
death
;
let
us
looke at
Chrift,
and not with
to
be free
from
fuch
condition, which our
Lord
and
Matter hath endured before
us
:
The
ra-
ther let
us
have patience,
how
ever we be
tryed,
becaufe
God
can
never
come
with helpetoo late,
as
men
may, 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
he
fendeth falvation
in
due
time
:
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
forth
againe, and
thew
them
his falvation,
for God
is a
helper
at time
of
neede
;
fuch
is
his faithfulneffe,
in
the Mountaine he will provide,
as
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