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Ephefan,r,Cháp.
5.
617
which
is
not
an
image
of
death, but
a
true fpiriruall death.
There
are
three
flaps
in
Scripture
:
a.
Of
nature,
fo Eutichus
fell
into a
deepe
flee?,
Aiïs 20.9.
z.
Of
death,
fo it
is Paid, They
flept
tenth
their Fathers.
s
Cor.
t
r.
Manyfleepe.
3.
Ofthe
foule
in
fin,
Rom.'
3.
I.
Now
it
it high
time
to awake
out
of
fleepe,
t
Thef.5.6.
Let
us not fleep
as others doe:
this
is
here meant ;
a
fleepe and death
which doth grow upon the
foule from hence,
that the good
Spirit
of
God
is
feparated
from ir,which
worketh
alllife, feofe
and
motion
in
us.
For the third thing,
awake,
and landing
up, differ
being one thing
in
the
degree
:
Awake is
to breake
off
fin
by
repentance, to
get
grace
in
us,
to [fland
up]
is
to
exercife this
grace,and watch
againft fleepineffe.
The
fumme therefore
of
the words
is
this.
"
I
bid
you reprove the
workes
of
darkneffe
,
for reproving
doth
"make
them
manifeft, both which
I
fay
not without good
«reafon,
for God himfelfe doth reprove
in
his
word
the
"world of
fin, and
by reproving, convcyeth into them the
"light-of
Jefus; for
the Lord doth call
on
us as
who
are dead
aflecpe
in
our
foules, and
biddeth
us
(hake
offour
fins,
get
"
grace and
work the works
of
it
:
And
left wee fhould fay,
"
it
is
in
vaine
to
fpeake
to
deafe
men,
much more
to
dead,
"
men, God
doth
Phew
us
Chrift,
who
is
the
true
light
and
"life,
that
enlighteneth and quickeneth
ass
that looke
to
him.
Here then
are
three things
to
be opened
:
i.
What
is
our eftate
in
which
we lie
by
natuit:
2.
What
is
our duty.
3.
What mtft
excite
us
hereunto,
For the
firft,
We
are all of
els
dead
fleepers ,
or
compaffed
in
part with a
fßirit
of(lumber: Laten
by
nature are dead
infins andtre
fpa
ff
es,
Eph. 2.1.
The Lords
people are often afleep
,
though
his
work
of
grace
is
in
their heart, Cant.5.
r.
I
fleepe, faith
the
Church,
Revel.
3.
r. The
Church
of
Sardi had a
name
to
live,
and
tram
dead.
For the opening
of
it
there
two things
are
to be marked.
r.
What
this
fleepe caufeth in
the unregenerate
and in
Gods
children.
2.
What
doth
caufe itin
the
one and
other.
For the
firft it
caufeth
in
the
unregenerate
two things.
i.
A
Joffe
of
all fpirituall
fente and,true difcerning,
Rom.ü.8.
you
may
fee
hew the
fpirit
of
(lumber worketh no true
fight, no hearing, they cannot tarte
that which
is
fweet
as
a
honey combe,no feeling,even
as
men afleepe fee
not,
hear,
not,
put things
in
their mouth, they
taftenortletthem have
never fuch
difeafes
they
feel,
them not.
a. It doth
caufe
the fancying
of
things that
are
nothing fo,
Revel.
3.17.
Thou
faifl,
I
am
rich and have
need
of
nothing,
and
knoroe
fl
not
that
thou
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