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On
the excellency
of
the
Soul.
lively
hope, by
the refurremtion of
Jefus
Chrifl
.
from
the
dead.
Here
is
a
great deal
in this Scripture;
Firft,
that.,
the
hopes
of
the
Saints
are lively
hopes,
that
is,
a
hope
as is
mightily
working
its-them,
it
will
not
fufr'er
their
hearts
to
lye
dead
in
any way
of
wickednefs;
Indeed, it
may bee with
the
hearts of
the
Saints,
as
it
is
with
a
fountain of living water,
that
máy have
fome dirt
cafiinto
ir, but
it
being
a
living
fpring, it
works
out that
dirt;
fo the
children of Goa
that
have fowe lively
hopes,
may
have fome
dirt
caftin
by
temp-
tatioo.r
fome fin,
I,but
if
their
hDpeäbee lively,
it
will
work
it
all°oat.
---
Andmark,
you
are
begotten,
therefore
you
fee
that
the
hopes
of
life
and falvation
it
is
that
that
is
not bred
with us
(as
I
fpake
before)
but
it
is
that
that
follows from
our new birth.
-
--
And
this is_by the.
refurre6tiòn,
of
Jefus
Chrif}
from the
dead. The power and
the
virtue of the
re-
furre
lion
of
Jefus Chrift
from the dead
being
in
the foul ,
and'putting
a
new
life into the foul, begets
it to
this
lively
hoÁ
d
then
it
is
a.purging
hope,
a,
John
3.
3,
.And
every
Man
that
haththis
hope,
purifieth
hirnfelf
even
of bee
is
pure.
Mark,
you
think,
what
need
men bee
fo
pure
and
flrió
?
are there
none
of
you
that ever have fcorn'd
at purity,
and
precifenefs,
.
and hólinefs
?
if
you
have, confider
of
this text upon
which
your
fouls
lies; everyman that
hath this hope,
that
is,
to fee
Jefus
Chrif},
and
bee
made
like
unto
him,
he
Both
here in
.
this
world
purifie'hicnfelf
as
Jefus Chrif
is
pure,
that
is
hee
-doth make
Jefus Chrift
to
bee
his
pattern
in
all.
that
-bee
Both,
and
aims
at
no
lefs
purity,
than the
very,
purity
of
the
Son
of
God; hee
doth
aim
at
it,
bee
makes
it
his
work
,
though hee cannotcome
fully
to
ir,
and
that
very hope
that
is
in
him
doth
work him
to
this;
Now what
hives
you
have
had
that
are
not fuch, mull
bee rafed
down
to
the ground,
if
ever
youwould bee
faved
at
lafl..
Sf.
3,
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