to the E PHES I AN S.. fparks of the RefurreC!:ion; here is a dew from Heaven upon your Souls, tomake~ Faith fpring, which nothing elfe could do. Strmon Of all Works elfe, to Believt is the eafiefl and the hardefl. If a man find it XXIX, out, it is the eafiefl; that is? it is the lhortefl cut. Go wl!ich way you will elfe, ~ go by your Graces, you wtll have a great deal of pudder ID your felves ~1thour comfort, Go to Duties, I do not fay but you lhould ufe them as means ; but to find a life in them you cannot, you will find a reflleffnefs indeed: But now to go · to Jefus Chrifl for life is the eafiefl way, it is _the lhortefl cut; there is a RefurreC!:ion from the dead. And yet of all elfe It IS the hardefl, for you mufl come off from this [I,] this I would Jive, this Self would live, it would give you grounds of life; but to throw awar a '?an:s Self, and that ~othing lhall live in a man but the Son of God, and I hve·m h1m by Fmh; thiS ts the hardefl thing in the world, yet the eafiefl when a man bath found the way, and none findeth it but thofe whom God teacheth; Theyjha!J all be taught of God, Thus I have opened unto you, as plainly as I could, That in the very work of Believing (and that is proper to the Text,) there is a proportion with that Power that raifed up Chrifl from the dead ; there is a RefurreCl:ion, Ye are rtjtlt (faith he) by Faith, of the operatioll of God. . ~----------------~--~----~---------- S ER..
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