Chap. 26. AnExpoftieu upon the Beokof J 0 E. Verf 4. 737 which the Apoftle ufeth for refreJbing, doth elegantly fignifie e.131 xra- (Atls 3. 19.) Repent ye therefore and be converted, that yourfins 4ée+t sooty be blotted out, when the time of refrefbing (or refouling) Jhaít ceasefrom the prefence of the Lord. When a man faints,or is very weary,we fay he bath loft his fpirits,and he is even as a man with- out a foule. Bat when in the Life ofany meanes he is refrefhzd, then we fay, his fpirit or foule is come to him again.The fpirit of man comes onely from God in its natural conftitution, he is the father ofSpiritt(Eccl: 12.7. Heb: 12. 9.) But the fpirit of rear may come from man in its refrefhings and confolations. And therefore faith lob to Bildad, wbefefpirit case frogs thee ? or whom haft thou comforted ? Thouhaft undertaken to comfort the ; outI am not comforted. Hence note. Holy truths or words rightly applied, leave a relievingyea a rte stinting porter in them. Such words give a man his foul againe, when he bath loft it, and when he is (as it were) gone from himfelfe, he is brought backe to himfelfeagain. For as it is Paidof the repenting Pro- digal), be carne to biaufelfe,he was gone, hewas loft from bimfelfq his foule was departed from him, his underftanding was none of his, he was no more Mafter of any fpiritually retionall faculty, then a dead man is ofany meet rationail faculty ; andfo his fa- ther reportedhim whilelt in that condition, this ourfan was dead but is alive, be was kt, but be is found(Luke r 5.3a.)Now(I fay) as it is in extreame tannings, fo in extreame forrowingsand deje- áions of fpiria, a man is loft from himfelfe, he is as a dead man and fo whem comfort comes in again, life may be Paid co come in againe; he who before was loft is found,and he whowasdead re- vives. The word revives from a twofold death; It revives a na- tural man from the death of fin,and it revives a Godly man from a death in forrow.Howmany fpirirs have(otne forth at the voice of the Word, out of the grave of fin. Chrift foretold: this refur- reetionof the Poole by the preaching and publication of the Go. fpel(Yob.5.25.)? -e hoar is coming,and sow is, when the dead (hall bear theveyceof the fin ofGod (in the miniftry of the word) and they Jhalllive. And left any fhould thinke that this is traeanr of the refurrecaion of the body, Chrift fpeaks of that diftïn&ly B b b b b (vet,
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