to the E P H E S I AN S. aJJd fb,tt comeJorth,&c. And then he putteth a difference between their deaths, ~ tbe one he faith is a bodily death, therefore by way of d1fference he expreffeth 1! Sermon thus .A/Jth<Jt are in the Gr,,vesj/n/1 hear hzs vozce, fo it is verfe 18. But when~ he fpeaks of the other in the 2) rh._ verfe, he faith they are fimply dead, The dtad (faith he,) {b.t/J hear hu votce, mtd thry that he~zr 1tjh.•lt ltve•. Yea in this Z)lh. verfe, he corrects h1mfelf, The hour zs commg, yea a11dnow is faith he, it is commg. and commg prefently , wh~rem thofe that are dead fuall hear his vo1ce and hve; therefore he doth not Ipeak of the general R.e· furrection. Here you fee is a double Refurrection ; Now take both tliefe toget!Jer, the firfl Refurrection wherein men arc quickned that were dead in fins and trefpalfesj and the !all Refurrection when all that are in the Graves tl1all rife; take I fay both thefe works together and you have a mighty power put forth, for you have the work double. Our Saviour Chrill had a double Refutrecrion, he had one of his Soul, (as I may fo call it,) when he overcJme the pains of death, that l fpake of in .Aefs 2. 24. Thou wilt 1lot IMvr my Soul mHeit. And there was a Refurrect10n of hts Body, . Thou antt 1lot fiijfer thy holy one (namely his Body,) to fee Corrttpt•• 011. Now, My Brethren, we likewife have a double Refurrection too; We have a RefurrcC!:ion of our Soul which is done in this l1fe, whereby grace is wrought in our hearts, being dead in fins and trefpaJfes; and at latter day we have a Refur– rection of our Bodies. Now as the greatnefs of his power in Chrifl's raifing lay not in taking him out of tlte Grave fo much, as in refcuing his Soul from what he feared from thofe pains, thofe birth-throws of death, the wrath of God whicl1 he wa; to undergo, that Rcfurrection of his Soul was the great Relurrection, fo Peter quoted! it. So it is here, thegreat Refurrection is the firll Refurred:i– on. That you may yet fee this clearer you lhall find in Scripture, that our net.v birth and the Rcfurrection are parallel expreffions, they are put one for another; and Jefus Chrifl"s Refurrecrion is called a begetting,and our being begotten again is called a Refurrection, becaufe that the fame power that is put forth in the one is put forth in the other. Jt is evident that Chrill his Refurrection is called a begetting of him, irt All< '3· H• God (faith he,) hathrmjed11p ]t{U5 agt~ill, flJ it is Writtm ;, th~ fecoiJd Pj'a!m, Tho11 art my Soil this day hrlve I begotttn thn. Here you fee Jefus Chrill's Refurrection is called a begetting: And you fhall find in Co!o[. , . •8. he is called theJirfl btgottenfrom the dtad. Mark it,his Refurrectwn is called abegetting, . Now, As his Rclu_rredion is called a begetting ofhim again, or a begetting htm rather, fo our bcmg born again, our converflon IS called a Refurredion, as you have it, 2Cor. n, I lhall come toit by and by. YeaMt~tt, 19.28. he calleth the Refu_rrectionof t~e jufi, when they lhall rife again at the latter day, thm Regeneration, thetr bemg begotten agatn; fatth he, yt which have jot– towtdme m the Regtneratl011, whm tht Son of mrmfhr•fljit ill tht Thro11e of hi. glory, J'f a!fo jbJtt }it 11pon T-..vdve Throtles, (lie. Thofewol'ds, i11 the Re• gmeratzo11, refer to the ttme when Jefus Chrill w .ll coma to Judgment. There the general Refurred:1on IS called the Regeneration, the new b ·getting of the Sons of God, and therefore one of the Evangelifls calleth them Sons of the Re· furrection, becaufe it is a begetting t!1em again, You fee my Brethren how the Scripture fpeaks of Converlion, it calleth ic a Regeneration, it calleth it a Refurred:ion, and it callcth the R.efurrcction at the latter day a Regeneration, it calletl1 Chrill's Refurrection likewife a begetting of h1m agam. Cc c 2 You
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