4Jid dead Duties. bad, they repented, but it was not eo life: Even as At~jUn called the perfccutions that the Heretiques, Arim or others fufiained for their herefies, Sterites perfecutiones, barren per– fecutions, benufe they did make up tae carnall glory, they did not bring any heavenly advantage: Thus tbi$ is a dead , and barren repentance. Again the Scripture~ I Pet. r. 3.· tels . us of a lively hope, ~hereby ~~ may gather there is a dead A deati hofk. hope: So that there ts no true ltvmg grace, but the appeannce · and fimilitude.of it may be calledadead one. You fee then there is a dead faith, a dead hope, a dead repr: ntance, and therefore it behoveth every one with Ehc more care i:o con- -fider of it. As they did before Solomu, {trive about the dead cbildt and the living, no Iclle do thou in praycrto God, that , · ttle live childe may be given to thee. · " Thirdly, 'Thi& dead Religion ttnd de~~d duties i& the eftate th4t IIT~ 4 /moft aft live, except rhofe few whom God bath indowed '!'~is dead Re.; with a fpirituallife, .and. vouchfafed great zeal and fervency 1d 1 g 1?0 an?dchad ' h n f Ch -ft' h ' .J d r: ffi Utles JS t e __ unto; t emolL part o n tans ave a meer uea pro.c 1· dl:ate 'tbat al· on ; our Congregations may be called tAceld.,maes, the moft alllive in. Church..yard and the Church both alike;. one is full of the · corporally dead, the other of fpiritual dea-d : What dead praying, publique and private? what dead hearing ?- in all thefe is not thy hesrt like NabAls, avery fl:one within? The Hebrew expreffion for the .water ofa fpring,is to call it living water-, whereas the water of pool$ and ponds, having no mo– tion, are de11aW~Cters :· Where a people have not a fountain of grace fpringing up within thern, they are dead and delli– tutc of Ctlrifi; they are the mt~~re mortuum, the dead fea ;. there are not thofc zealous and fervent motions of the foul to God ~ Oh take heed of dying corp@ralty in this fpiriruall ,death l all thy Religion, thy duries, will be dead things to ·t bee, of no ufe or power, as vainu to cry'to dead men tohelp thee. ; . . \ Foarthly, Even the people flfGorl,though t"h6J h~vean inwArd · life of[,raceWithin them, yet throughnegligence and c;~rele[nef[e', 1tfa} be deadJU to their own fex{e,t~~nd the;uJgement ofothers. As- . the tree in winter outwardly fe-l!mcth 'dead, but there is a fe- (r.et root under ground, that keeps ia life. Thus it is hcre,out- - - · · - ~ardly . IV.
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