to theE P H E S I A N S. Believers· the fame power that wrought in Chrifl and raifed him up, is that which~ \I'Orks in ~hem and raifed them up alfo. . SrrmotJ XXlll. Now my Brethren to back this with one parrallel place, (which I ever love \,/"V"""'J to do, ~nd fo I lhall g; off from th1s. As here in the Te~t he makes mention of the greatnefs of his power mworktng Fa1th, and parallel d It With the power that raifed up Chrifl from tile dead; Jo read Cotoff. 2. 12, 1 ~-and you ihalllind the very fame thing faid there .too,. Sauh he, Te are 6!mtd ·'f'tth htm 111 Bapt:Jrne, whemna!jo)'eare rif m w tthhtmthoroughtht Ftuth of tht Operatto11oj God, who bath rmfed himfrom the dead. Parallel rlll6 With the words ofthe Text. Saah the words ofthe Text,The power that works '"you to 6et:eve;he fpeaks of Faith, Saith rhe Apoftle here, ye art 6urudWtth htm, 6tll ye are njen throughfaith. Again Secondly, he comparerh believing in the Text, (being compared with thofe followmg verfes in the fecond Chapter,) to a nfing from tne dead ; So here in theColoJTimts, Tt are rifm with him through Ftzith !aith he. The" again in the Third place, as in the Text he makes a parallel of the work of Faith With the Refurrection of Chnft, who 6elteved ( faah he,) accordtng totht power that wrousht i>t Umfl whe11 he was rat{ed; So he makes the fame puallel here in the Cotojjt,ms, Through the Fmth o( the operatioiJ of God who bath ratjed htmfrom tht dtad, viz. Umfl. And Fourthly, As we are fatd to belteve accordmg to the efficacious work, the word ;,(f:l'""•is likewife here in the CoJojfiam it is called Faith of the workmg, or efficacious working of God. And as here God is laid to be the Author, the fame that raifed upChrifi, did work Faith in them, fo likewife in this place it is f Jith of the operation of God who raifed up Chrifl from the dead. So that every way the one place is parallel with the other. I will gtve you but"one evafion of fome againfl this place, and ihewthe weal; < nefs of it, and prefently conclude. Say they, the meaning of the phrafe, Throt<ghfaith of tbe Operatio1> of God; doth not note out that the operation of God is the efficient caufe of Faith, but th"' the operation of God that raifed up Cllrifl from the dead, is the Object of FJtth, therefore it iscalled Faith of the operati?n of God; that is, fay they, that hath the power and operauon of God that ratfed up Chri!l from the dead ft!J. its object, to believe that we ihalllikewife be raifed up. • But my Brethren, that the Apoflle when he faith, Faith of the oper,ztion of God, meaneth that Faith was wrought by God, and that he takes it in that fen le appeareth plainly, by comparing it with the 1 rth.verfe that went before, fpeak– ing there of fanctification, as he doth here of Faith, (of Sanctification under the notion of Circumci!ion, for you know it is called Circumcifion of the heart,)fairh he, J, whom at[oye are. Circumciftd witb tbt CZrcZJmctfto" made witho11t hattds; ill putti11g ojj the6ody of the.fins of theftejb, 6y the Ctrcumctfton of Chr.tf/. Now, to open thefe words unto you. Here 1s an allufion of the work of fan.:l:ification and faith to be the fruits and effects of mo Sacraments, the Old Teflament, Cir– cumcifion, and the New Teflament Baptifme; when he fpeaks of Sanctification as the work rnd fruit, the inward work of th~ Old Circumcifion, he diflinguilheth of Circumcifion; there is one faith he, that is outward made with hands ofthole that did Circumcife the Child with their hands, that is outward circu.~cifion,) but th<IO fatth he, there IS a clfcumc•iion that ts by the power of God immediately and that IS called a ctrcumctfion Without hands,an mwardcircumcifion that is with– out hands, What is the meaning of that? · Whereof God is the immediate Au– thor, that is the Apoflles meaning, whererein a man doth make no refiflance, wherein a man is as it were pallive, for fo you know in circumcifion he was. Now then the very fame thing_ which he had faid of fanctification in allufion to the Old C!fcumc,fion, that Sanchficauon was a work Without hand.s, that is, of God's power immediately; tlte fame he expreffeth of Faitll in the next words under the notion of Baptifme, calling it Faith of the operation of God ; So that when he faith, Faith of tht operatio1z of God, his meaning is,that it is wrought as the inward circumcifion is by the immediate power of God, and by that very power that raifed Chrifl from death to glory. To open this yet a little furt,hcr. This phrafe M!lde without b,illds, it noteth out in Scripture Hill God's immediate power, and above the courfe of nature, an immediate
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