~ Serm. II. ~ An Expojition of the epijlle SERMON II.; E». H ~:. s: i; 1-; 2.; &c; 'J: find ~ou_fMt~ he qt~ickned, who were dead ill Sins and Trefpaffes~ ~· Wber~n m mne paft ye w_alked, ~C£~~mg ~~ ~be [ourfe of tb!!, Worlu 1 &c~ THe Coherence of thefe words I did largely give the tall: day. For the g~neral Scope, they are the Application of the common Mifery of Man· kmd unto thefe Ephejam, and unto the 1ews alfo, verf. 3· And it is a Defcription of it under all forts of Gonliderations : both of Sin, They were dead in Sins and Trejpajfes; and fecondly, of Punilhment, They were bJ natHre Children of Wrath. Or elfe, (to take a more particular Divifion) here is ; I. The internal State, Condition, and Conft!t~tion of every Man by Natu~ i He is in a ftate of Death, and he is dead in Sins and Tre.fPaf[es. · II. Here is his MiCery, in refpea: of his outward Converfation, and his conftant · Courfe, Walking, v. 2. Having hn Canverfation, v. 3· And this ourward Converfation of theirs, and the Siufulnefs and Mifery thereof is fet forth to us by three Caufes of it. · I opened the !aft day the firft, the inward State exprefs'd here by Death; and it is a Death, you fee, in Sin. It is not a phyfieal Death of the Soul, for the Soul is immortal, and all things immediatly made by God never die ; that is a certain Truth : and therefore the Soul, and the Faculties of it, remain ftill, as we all fee by experience. It is therefore a moral Death, namely, in Sin, ( as here the Apoftle diftinguilheth it,) in refpeCl:, not of the Being, but of the Well-being. The Life of the Soul is in God, and it is Sin only that Ceparateth between God and us: and as Death is the Separation of Soul and Body; fo Sin, being the feparation ofGod and the Soul, hence it iscalled a Death,a Death in Sin, or by Sin. For God, he is the Fountain of Life, yo11 have that Expreffion, 'Pfal. 36. 9· And<;>f his Son Tefus Chrift it is faid, I :John S· 12. He that bath the So11, bath Life; and he that bath not the Son, hatb not Vfe. You muft know this, that the Soul of Man lives not in it felf, it was made to live in another, and it was made to live in God: and the truth is, when God fhall take not only Himfelf away, but all things elfe, the Soul dies, as the Fire does when the Fuel is taken away ; therefore Men die inHell. Now then this Death, it is b,.t cutting off God from a Man, and all Influence from God. And look, how many ways that God hac!, or hath an Influence into Mens Souls by a fpiritual way ; fo many Lives a Man had, whilft he had the Image of God in him, and fo many Deaths he bath by Sin, and in Sin. Now there is a threefold Life from God, that I mentioned not lafl: day, tho the Heads of the Death I mentioned then. There is, Firfl; The Favour of God, the good Will of God towards a Man, that God cloth bear good-will to one, and accepteth him; and therein lies hts Life: 'Pfd. 30. 5· In thy Favour n Life; the word is, In thy good W,t/, or, In thy acceptation n Life. And therefore now to be out of fuvour with God, tt is to be a dead Man. So great a God is God, fo great a Sovereign, as his Favour or Disfavour kills, or makes alive. Then,
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