/ faid, 1: Pet."i•5. to be lively ftoms huilt up to al'!iritNail h~u[t: · if we fpeak ofGqd, alas, the unregenerate man, though he pray, he hear, yet he bath no communion with God, be– caufe dead in his'finne : As He~ekjah in another cafe fa id, The ·livinJ., the living he jhallpraife thee; fo it is here, The living, the living, he lhall pray to thee, he flull hear the Word preached toadvantage~ Or as in the matter of the refurrceti– on, God is faid to be the Goa ofthe living, and not ofthe dead, icsr.rue of the fpiritu:~lly dead, as well as the corporall; God is not worf'hipped, ferved, or loved by them, but they are (hangers to God and know him not, even while they draw nigh eo him, and call OA his Name~ And as he is not in corn• munion with God, fo neither in communion with the Saints, but as dead members in the whole bedy~ or withered branch– es in the tree ; fo are they in the Church of God; he doth not quicken up others, or is quickened by others ; he doth • ,neither impart good, or receive good, but is a dead tree in Paradife) whereas every godly man is a tree of life there.. in, living in himfelf, and infirumentally maki_ng others to live. . / Laftly, Unregenerate men are fa id to be dead 9 hecau{e of 7· their Htttr imp~ruzcy ana inahility to do ltn} good llflion. Can Becau[e of La~rm raife t~p himfelf from the grave? no more can we their mter im– from fin ; we are not only fa id to be Mi-ndc 0r deaf, but even. pot~~? an~ dead, that fo al~ ~ay be given. to the power and grace _of ~~~ ~~~Jatti~ God. 1he Armtmanand Pel"g•an, . even all that are encmtes · · to grace under the praifc of n3ture, they love not to hea.r of this expr~ffion, they think ifrigidly urged, it ovcrthroweth· their fandy foundations: therefore they will make it a pas.. tiall death, or no death, and fenrall waies wreft and Cub– vert the text: but if God be the foie author of our naturall life, can we be the· authors of fupernaturall life?.We that could not make our felves mefl~ which is the lc1fe, fhall we make our felves h()ly men? which is the ~reatcr: We that cannot make a fly or worm, fhall we caufc grace? For the making of a man g(\dly is a cnatioA, and greater then the creation of the whole wodd, as Aufiin n.prdftd it: So that this very esprdfion may fill us with great confufion, we on. ·- Q...q. 3 fuould.
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