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Ephejans,
Chap,.
V
8
R.6.
wee creepe up from
forme
deadly
fickneffe
, we tell
what
a
power
of
God
it
was
to
raife
us ;
but when our foules creepe
out
of
hellifh
dark
-
netfe
and
death , to beleeve on
the
living
God
, it
is as
nothing
with
us.
Yjea.
Againe
to
confider
of
our
refurreftion,
which
we have through
Cleave there-
Chritt,
is
a
forcible motive
to make
us
cleave
to him.
If
Peter
faid,
fore to him.
Whither f{,all
tree
gee?
thou
haft the
words
of
life; howmuch more
may
we
fay
;
How
fhould wee ftart from
the Lorde thou
haft railed
us up
when
we were
dead.
Yje3;
How
did
Lazarres
(
thinke
you)
and
others
whom Chrift
railed
up
love
him,and
reft in
him,when this bodily
life was againe given them;
though
they were within
a
while to die againe
a
But
how
much
more
would
it
bind
us
to
Chrift, if
we
law how he hath
railed our
foules
being
fluke
dead, with
fuch
a
refurreftion
as
that
they
(hall never
die
agame
e
Wherefore how
wofull
is
the
flare
of
many
that
profeffe Chrift,
yet
live
in
ignorance, know not what
a
refurreftion meaneth,
aredead
while they
are
alive,
in
all kind
of
finne and wanronneffes
t
Their
ne.
ver were
inChrift,but
likeas glaffe eyes
are let
in
the
body,or
woudden
legges.
which being by outward
manes
joyned to ir, doe not
receive
life
and fettle
with other members.
We
never knew conimunion
with
him
who
is
the quickning fpirit,
if
we be dead in
our
fenes.
Yje
4.
Laftly,
it
is
matter
of
comfort
againft
the
infirmities and
death
of
Co
ofor` a-
there bodies
;
by
his
blood he bath made
a new and living way,
hee
Ltÿ
n
m
°
"a
bath
led
the daunce
;
though thou
of
thy
felfe haft no
right
to
ir, yet
in
Chrift thy
Head thou haft
as
good right
toit,
as
any
heire
apparant
to
his
lands.
Doti.
Obferve
againe
;
Wee
are
by
nature all
that
out
of
the
paradife
of
In Chrift
we
Ged
we come Ebert
of
his
glory,
but in Chrift God bath
been
pleated
to
arc
s
rtebl
r
reftore to
us
the
happy Condition
,
in
the refurreftion
of
Chrift.
fednefe.
I.
Pet.
I.
3. Who
kath
begotten
us
againe
unto
a lively
hope
,
by
the re.
fur,
el7ion
of
lefts
Chri(i from the
dead.
Chrift
our Head fitteth
in
glory,
he
hath done
it
for
us
:
I
gee
to
preparemanfions
for
you.
He
enured
the
Holy
of
Holies
in
our name ,
and fo
after
a
fort prefenteth
us before
God,
as
the
Friel" under
the Law,
he
hearath
in
his breaft the
names of
all
his
lfrael
when he commeth into the prefence
of
God,
fo
as we
all
may be faid, and
that
truely,
to
fit
in the heavens
;
he bath
all
that
glo-
rious life
in
him
,
with which we
are
in
the
heavens
to
be
glorified.
Joint purchafers ; we have by him right to
it
in
Faith,
as
an heire
in
minority to
his
Fathers inheritance.
Wee
by nature are all
of
us
unfit for
Gods
kingdome
and fo
our
Saviour
faith,
that
emleffe wee be
borne
againe,
,tee cannot enter into
Gods
kingdome.
What
difpofition
can be in
filch
as
are children and
thralls
of
the
devil!,
to be the
foes
and
heires
of
God
a
No,
there
is
nothing
in us
but enmity
againft
God.
We
love hell
as
if
there were
no
hea-
Ezek.,6.
3.6.
I
ven
;
Wee
are
(nth
as
have an
aámarite
to
oar
Father,
an
Hittite
to
oar
mother, as
lie weltring in
our
blood
:
Now
who
can
make
me
owner of
that
foh.,4.x.
Ioh.;.S