116 I ..C.>i'i-R I STS .alarm block in good duties, that man is dead ; á we call moving things living things ;Every thing viewing that, Iiveth,Gen.9.3. When.a thing cannot ftirre, that we call dead when a man is not flirting in heavenly things, he is ttirring enough in earth-. ly, but he cannot iliac in heavenly things ; that Haan is a dead Chriftian, though he profeffe never fo much, yet if IT be not flirting towards God from day to day, he is dead; I think, it meet to/errre lest Hp, layes Saint Peter, z Pet .r.13. That is, Jtbinkit meet to quicken you up. Now beloved, this being fo, if yee would know what it is to be alive towards God, let us but finde cut a little,what is the lift of a man. 1. FUR , what is the life of a mans Underflanding ; peo- ple thinke that bare knowledge is; and approving of Gods wayes, and thinking of them now and then ; they thmke this is the life of their underfl:andings. But you {hall fee,' thefe are not it ; therefore we will feareb out what is the life of the underflanding. 2. Secondly, what is the life of the Will or of the Heart ; people are apt to thinke that wifhings and wouldings and vellerties, if they have ibme volitions towards God and all holy courts, they thinke their wills are alive ; no; thefe try not it ; therefore we will (catch. too, wherein the life of the Will does ccnfifl. 3. Thirdly,what is the life (sidle Confcrence ; }people generally doe conceive that if their confèiences doe check them for their f nnes,and (mite them for evil,and excure them in other things that are good, then their confcience is alive; now we defire to enquire; what is the life of the Confctence indeed. 4. Fourthly, what is the life of the 'Affefions ; J gave you a touch of thefe when j Chewed you what it is to be dead ; now let me fpeake of them more fully, to thew you what it is to be alive. For the fiat, what is the life of the Underflanding ; yee know there be many things, in the undedlánding; know- ing, approving , fludying; determining ; now the world thinks that when the underftantling is Ìo farce wrought up- on,
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