to the E PH ES I AN S. SERMON XXIV. Ep H E s. I. I 9. 20. And what is the exceeding greatneft of his power io m~ ward, who believe, according to the worPJng of the ~hof~~~ ... ' . Which be wrought in Chriji, when he raifed him from the dead, and Jet him at his own right hand in the Hea– ven!J placer~ I Shali repeat nothing I have delivered,buto.niy I.ay c~eh the Method i have proceeded ih ~andlm&of thefe. words~ . . I propounded theJe Fotir thmgs to be confidered m them, The Firft is; fome general Cbriliderations about thePowtr of God. I ri:imed Three. 1 • The excellency of that Pi:iwet, defcribed in thefe wotds, The o:crtding greattufs of hu pown·. . .. . . . . . . . 2 .. The efficactous workmg of hto Power; m thefe words, Accordmg to the tjfoCii)twor/u',g, the Energyof his Power; of the mtght of hi4powtr. They are all words to note out an efficacioufnefs in the thing here meritioned. . ~· The proportions of the Power of God; Accordi11g, faith he; He put– tem forti! more or lefs powenn fame works thanm other, as htmfd( pleafeth. The Second was, the Perlohs toward whom this exceeding greatriefs of his power is exercifed, it is To U<-wards. . . Thirdly, Here is the work wherein it isexercifed : Tt is all tlie works tha! God hathupon Chrit:lians, both from lirft to !aft; (this I fhewed in the laftdifcourfe) efpecially the work of Convetfion, Who 'bell we accordmg to thi! working of the rtugbt of /Jupower. And when he had difcourfed at latge from the i othVerfe to ihe end of the Chapter, what a Powtr wror•ght m r.hrtjf whm ht raifed h1in from thede,jd; heihavtngfaid, that he putteth forth the fame Powrr 111 them that believe. he telleth them in the fecorid Chapter, from the lirft Verfe to the leve11th, Th;t he put fi:>rrh the fame Power in raifmg them itp, in quick11i11g thfir hratts, ,;: workmg Graci' i11 them~ Read over the Coherence, and you will find it to be efpecially mean( of the work that he had wrought in them, \Vhen he tonveried them and brought them to behove; I ~m yet upon the Third thirig, viz. whetein this Power is mariilefled. l proved in the la!l difcourfe (and I thought to have added fomethrng, brit that the time cut me off from \Vhat r have now tbdeliver,) that the thing whereifl this 'f'owtr ismanifefted;this e~ceed111ggreat"e[s of Puwer,lt is at the prefenc iil Belt<vers; it •s nor only meant; as fame woOId have it, of hls 'Powrr in railing them up at La!l day. For this I lliewed Reafons, which I wlll riot repeat. I proved it lirft, to be the ftope of the Apot:lle. Now the fecond thing will be; What it is in the wo'rli of Ccinverfioo ihat doth draw torch tht exceed111g greatne{s o( !be Power of God. And eh_: Third thing is this; Th~t it lroldcth ptopdrtion with that Power that ratfcd up JejiJS Chnjllromdeath to lilc t , R. r Now ~ St>rmon. XXIV. ~
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