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Epheflans,Chap.
2,,
V»
R.
S.
affecting heavenly
things,
walking
in righteoufneffe,findingthat
God
I.
in
Chrift
dwelleth in
us.
And for better conceiving
it,
it
is
fit to
confider.
r.
What
it
is.
2.
Who
is
the Author
of
it.
3.
In what
order
it
is
wrought.
4. The
property
of
it.
:LifeofGod,
I.
It
is
nothing
but the
created gift
of
grace which frameth
the
what iris.
whole man
to
live
according
to God
,
or
fupernaturall
grace
gi-
ving
life,
and
bringing forth motions according to
God,
as
the
na-
turall life.
z
Whence.
2.
The
power
of
God
alone,
with the word
&
facraments,
give
this
life,
called therefore
immortall
fade: by the
werd
we
all are
quick
ned,
and
conformed to the image
of
the fecond
vldam
;
called
there-
fore the
Word
ofLife;
Who
bath
brought life
and
immortallity
to
light
by
the
Gofpel.
r oruer,,
3.
For
the order, there
is
Aft
a
taking away
of
fins,
for
while
we live
in
them,
we
are
in
death. Secondly, there
is a
taking
of
life
in
our behülfe.
Thirdly
,
a
holding out
of
thefe
things,
with
the
roh.ç.nÇ.
voyce
cf
God
unto
the
foule
:
The dead
in their
graves
flail
heart
the
voyce
of
the
Son
of
God,
and flail live
:
A receiving
of Chrift:
A
for-
giving
of
our
fins, and
quickning with
the
fpirit.
4 Property.
4.
The Property
of
which
life
is
eternall,
and
bath
no
ending.
Chrift
being railed dieth no
more, nor
a
Chriftian.
Queft
How
may we know
that
we
are alive
e
Anfw.
Every
life
feekes
it
owne
perfervation;
as naturals life
leeks
that
which
is
fit
for that life,
fo
doeth
this fpirituall life
that
which
is fit
for
Notesofthe
it
felfe
;
as
the word
of
God,
a. Pet. 2.
2. And the things
that
are
life
of
God in
above
where
Chrifl
fìtteth,
Col. 3.
I.
The foodswhich perifhetb
not
,
but
U
:.
endures
for
ever : As
the
life
is
immortall,
fo
it leeks immortall
food
by which it liveth to
God;
the
life
of
grace, it
is
maintained by
bread
from heaven, from
the
living
God.
2.
Every
natural! lifein
the
feverall kinds
of
it,
leeks
it
prefervation
of
him,
and
by him
that
is
the
Author
of
it.
Children
of
their
Pa-
rents,yea,
and the
eyes
of
all
creatures
Tooke
to
the Creator, Pfal. 104.
So
here
they that
are
quickned
with the
life
of
God
,
are ever
and
anon
running
to
him
as
their Father, crying, and calling upon
him for
fup-
Rom
8.15.
ply
in
all
their wants, by the
fpirit
of Adoption, they cry Abba.
3-
He
that
hash this fpirituall life in any meafure,
is
fenfible,
and
ever
complayning
of
fpirituall death and
of
corrupt
nature , the
fight
whereof
is
molt
noyfome
to
his fenfe.
A
dead man perceives
no
flinch
to come from
him:
An evident figne
of
fpirituall life, to
figh
and
groane under
the
body,and to
cry
out, o
mi
ferabk,
&c.Rem.7
24.
Good Lordwhat
a
flate,is
this; what
a bed
-rid
difpof
tion
dotty hang
about me.;
that
I
can
neither
find
comfortable
fenfe
nor motion
to-
wards
things fpirituall
!
Every man the more quick with the
fpirit,the
more complaining
in
this kind.
Life
Expof.