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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
practice
of
god
-
lineffe,argueth want
of
fpirituall life.
4
Love to the brethren
:
By
this
we
know,
we
are
tranfitted
frets
death
to
life;
becaufewelave the
brethren.
S,
=tott;14.
This
is a
matter
of
admiration,
ofjoÿ,
and thankfgiving
:
If
a man
were recovered
of
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 life
of
grace, 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
of
Tome
deadly frckne(Ie,we will
tell
of
it
and
fay,What
a
glorious
and wonderful)
power
of
God
was
it
to
raife
me
e
But
when our
fouls
creep up out
of
fin
and hellifh
ignorance, the
darkneffe
of
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
of
unregenerate
men,they
ZÌ
lie
expofed to the
fun as
dead carcaffes,
the
flinke
of
whofe 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,
to
deprive 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
of
part
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
bufineffe
cheerfully,eat,
drinke and are
merry,
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 his
foule, yet
being voyd
of
that rare
grace
of
godly wifdome
to
difcerne
it, runneth
on
in
his
dying
life
from towne-
totowne, fromhoufe to houle,
infetling others with the
(link
of
his
fores, and running
botches, yea,
and playcs
with
finne in his
common
talke,
as a
childe doth with
a
fawning
curre
in a
thing,
till
it
being
too
strong
for him,
plucks
him downe
to hell,
and returnes upon him
stmt.
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