Chap. 3 3. An Expofition t pon the Bock of J }o :E. Verf, 4. III nofeedesof difl'olution in it, becaufe no contrariety, nó contrary qualities in it, as all bodyes or corporeal) fubilanceshave. I know the Apoftle faith ( Tim: 6.16. ) Gad only path immortality ; it's true, he only hash it in himfelfe independently, originally but he derives and gives-it as a talent to foa e creatures to a way ofdependance upon himfelfe. Secondly, Obfrve. The.fonle brings in the life of the body, The'life ofman. What is the body without the foule, but a lumpe of 'clay; M foone as ever the foule departs,.life departs, man dyeth and- :comes a putrifying cárkafle ; yet fuck is the folly of moll n, that all their caress for the life of the body, which is (at belt ) a dying life, theyutterly nègleet the foule, which , as-it is the life of the body, 'bit felfe never dyeth. The foule is the Jewell, the bodyis but the Cabinet, the Joule is the kernel, the body is but the (hell. Will you be follicitous, abouta Cabinet, and a fhell, and flight the Jewel, or throw away the kernel ? Will you take .care of that .which liveth, thebody, ànci will you not take care of that which holds your,life, the foule ? Againe , Note. Life is the .gift of the faule which is the cadre of life is -be of God, -then the life-ofman is of Godalfo: The caufetf the caufe is the . caufe of the effedl or thing. caufed. But we need not argue it from Logick rules, Scripture teflimonybeing fo aboundant in this thing. ( Afi's1,7. ai. ) egiveth to all, life andbreath, and all th ngr. And (v. zb. ) Inhimwe live and move and have vier be- ingf Spiri-uall and eternal) life,are the gift of God, fo alfo -naturall life. And if fo, Then Fief},. Live to'God; 'Secondly, Seeing God gives us life, we" f -ould be willing togive our lives to God. Yea"Thirdly,We f -ould thereforebe ready togive up, orrather to lay down our fives for God.' And aswe should give up our lives to Godwhen hecalls for thenì bynatural death,fo we fhould giveup our lives fot God, when he calls us to bearewitnefs tohis name and truth by violent death. I í1:a1l yet take notice ofone thing further; before Ipafle from Z 2 this
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