Chr~fl the 7'rzi.flee, &c. 2I7' fometime 'to be ·brOl.Jght into the covehaht ;·~whileyet they are {hangers from it, a'n cl neither perceive rhe guard about them, nor the Cmpmander thereof, John · v , 2~. ' The Father ·~ · bath cornmined all judgment unto the Son .' Hof. xi. 3· ' I taught Ephraim alfo to go, takililg them by their arms, · but they knew not that I healed them .' Sometimes they are, during their flare ofhl!ndnefs, in eminent hazard of their lives, and ' narrowly efcape, before the fiream of 'firong temp– tations, threatning to carry them quite away; and yet the force of thefe is broken one way or other, and they . brought back from the very brink of ruin:· ' and they never truly know whole debtor they are forth.efe things nor fee the love~ defign in them, until converting g race has reach'd them; and then they hear the Capta'in of. that guard, laying to them, ftS he fai d to Gyrus , Ifa: xlv. 5· ' I girded thee, tho' thou hafi not known me.' So the mountain -was ' full ofhorfes and chariots of firr,' tor ·the defence of E lijha and bis fervanr; while yet the ftrvanr faw none for them, but againft them,– until the Lord. ' open.ed his eyes,' 2 Kings vi. 17. · Secondly . The quickning Spirit o( the covenant is in him; whereby to q uicken dead £inners, and,caufe them to live. The ·Spirit of Jife behov'd to be pur– chafed for fi ners: othenvife the're was no life for them. Now the fuln efS thereofis pur·chafed, and actually lod– ged in the Mediator, according to the covenant. Hence Chrift propofeth himfelfto the dead Satdis,as' hav– ing the !even Spirits of God, : Rev . iii I. and faith to · th~ .7ew$, John v. 2_1 . The dead.fhal! he~r the voice · of the Son ofGod, that is, dead fouls fi1all be quickned; and being quickned, fuall believe. l he firil: Adam, be ing m<1de a living foul, was capable to commm1icate natural life; but not being made a quickning Spirit, he could not refiore life on'ce loft : bot the lai1 Adam was made a quickning Spirit, , to re.fl:ore fpi ritual life · to finners dead in trelpalTes and fins. So in Chrifi as the ' .
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