e*------.--- _ 21Z I CH R I S'T'S Alarm vv ayes to geod, but to be quickned up in them Convcrilon puts another life into a man ; a man may be converted from propbaneffè to civility; from not Praying conftantly to pray- ing conflantly, from not Hearing to hearing, front not Prea- ching to preaching, from not profeffng to profefling. True, this man (hall have the leffe hell, yea, but this is nothing to- wards heaven ; except a new life be put into this man, to be alive in all there good wayes; except he be quickened toge- ther with Chrift, Secondly, Faith ; fhould a man leane himfelfe upon God, and upon Chrift, fhould a man apply all the Promifes of the Golpell to his foule, and beleeve all that's contained in the covenant ofGrace; alas what of all this ? If this man bee dead Bill, without fuch a Faith as produces life ; it is little better then nothing ; as Chrtf} layes, Hoe teat loves and be- leeves in me. Joh.i r .z6. True faith carries life with it, where - foever it is ; and therefore if a mans faith bee without life, it is but equivocall faith ; faith it may well be , but true Faith it cannot be ; for if thou wouldit be able to fay thou beleeveft in Jef as Chrift, thou mute be able to fay that thou liveft too in him ; It's impoflïble a man fhould rightly beleeve in Chria and be dead ; no, he lives that beleevas in care, (ayes Chrift. 3. Thirdly, as yee heard heretofore, to be a member of the vi- (Ile Church of GOD, to be a clone in Gods building ; were a man the final+ and -moll carved {tone of all, put in by Bap - tifire, kept in by profeffion of the Chriflian faith ; this is a poore thing, if this man now be not a lively {tone ; Tee elf's as lively fronts are built op a fpiritnall !mule a holy Priefl- hood,c"c.s Pet.a. S. The right Piones in Gods fpirituallhouse are all lively (tones ; if thou beef+' but a logge, a heartleffe, dull, dead member, thou art none of Gods ípirituall houfe, no part of his holy Prieft -hood, thou art no more a Chrittian then a Dead man is a man. Thou art but a fit roome, thou haft nothing but a name of a true Chrifîian ; The body of Chrift, is all full of life, derived from him the head ; all the branches that are in him, have the life of the root in them ; if thou
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=