to theE PH E S 1AN S. Now, my_Brethren, to gather up to an end and to a concluflon; you thereto1 e ~ that believe co.mlort your felves With the exceedmg _g rcatnefs or this pow<r Strmor. that is ingaged to you,; know the exceeding greatnefs ot Iris power to you-ward, XXI[. It is a power will do lOr you above all your tnoughts, rt exteeueth that way~ 1t rs \./"V"'<.;) ~m•G<»•> in that fenfe. it IS a power that wdl do beyond all relif\ance, if God !Jejor us: who/ball be agaiuf/w, .faith the Apoll!e. The F:Itlxr. (laitll Chrilt,) u greater tha11 all, m;d 110 m mt ts able to pluck them out of rnj Rtthers hmJd, Joh!t 10 • 2 8, 29. lt IS a rc1gnmg , a dom1neenng power, a power that carries all afore it. The word 7;; •.•<J,ni"<'i:><"&-, 1t may ligmty the foveraJgncy, tl1e domini: on the abfolutenefs of his power, fuch :is a Monarch hath; fuppofe a Monarch h ad 1lrenath to do all by himfclf, and had authority wyned with that !\renath it were a p~ver that would carry all afore it, and command all ; fuc'1 ii }'lowe';. it,is that God puttetl1forth to believers, 1t 1s a conquenng power, He will have mer~ 11po11 whom he will h,zve mercy, and who bath rejifled /;" WJ/J? When you come to beg pardon for your fins, what fay you? L ordforg(ve 11S o"r tujp.:fies. What Arguments do you ufe? For thine JS the Kiugdum, zhe Power and the G!o':)•; foveraignty and dominion ahd !\rength,_ are both his, and out of both thefe he will pardon your fins and lave you, and If. all that power of God will bring you to falva!ion, and keep you to falvation, you !hall be furely kept. And my Brethren, let me raife up your thoughts to conlider witli your fel ves ifthe exceeding grearnefs of his power be ingaged in you and to you to do for you :ovhat then is the thing that is anfwerable to this powe~?lfthat power that wrougb~ m Cnn11: to raifc h1m from death to glory !hall work 10 us,Lord whezhrr wtll it lmng us! . What, will Cod bring you to falvation? re mull then be a thing an– fwerable to the power. What glory therefore mu!\ It be which God Willlhew forth in the Saints at the latter day? .The_Heave11s declare the power m1d glory of God; yea, but the ellate of the Sa10ts 10 Heaven declare the exceeding great– nefs of his power, and what a glory then mu!\ that needs be! And fa much 110 ,.,; for the fecond thing, I he Perfims, The exceeding greatnefs of hi; power to tJs~ fJJtJrd. There arc thefe Two things yet behirtd; Fi~!\ to fl1ew \Vherein, in. what it is that this power·is put fcirtli, it is put forth; both m workmg faith, and 10 keepmg them tofalvatJOn, glonfying them at la!\. All that work and power that God putteth forth toward a believer fir!\ and Jafr from his converlion to his falvation; is that which the Apoflle here intendeth: This I flJalllhew the next day. The Second thing that remaineth is this, that it is a power that aniwereth to– the power of raifing Chri!\ from death to life, and from death to glory. .And therein I mu!\ fl1ew thefe two things. • r. T hat the greate!\ work that ever God did, and the greate!\ power that ever was !hewed, was 10 the Refurrechon of Jefus Chn!\; and railing him up to glory. . z.. That the working in the hearts of believers grace and faith and keep~ mgthem to falvauon, and glonfym~ them _at la!\, wJII hold a proportion with that great power that was !hewed 10 Chnfr's refurreCl:ion. And when I haitii -hlltldled thefe, I !hall have done with the t8.19. xoth. verfes• • Pp ,
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