to 'the EPHESIAN S. · SERMON. XIV. EPHES. z. 5,6. 5; Ewn when we were dead inSins, bath quick.ned us together wit/, C/Jrifl," ( by Grace ye areJawd) 6. .And bath raifed us up together, and made us fit toget7Jer i11 hea)len~ places in [hrist Jefus. · YOUmay remember, how iri the general Coherence, which was premifed to the whole firll eleven Verfes qfthis fecond Chapter, at the entrance thereinto, (which the Reader may pleafe to review,) I !hewed, that the Apofile intended a Parallel, or Comparifon, between what was done to Chri!r; in bringing him to Glory, (as our Head, and as a Patern too ) ; and what aofwerably God was doing in us, and for us, in perfecting our Salvati· oo : And after a long and enlarged Stream of Difcourfe, he falls fuddenly into a !hort winding up of it. And as in Chrill's raifing to his Glory, to ibew forth the greatnefs ofthis Power therein, there was: I. TheTermintu a quo, the !rate from whence, 'J?..aifed from the dead. 2. TheTerminru ad quem, the !rate where· to he was raifcd, that Glory defcribed, v. 21, 22, &c. So anfwerably in us, and ·our Salvation, to !hew forth the ·Riches of God's Grace, (which was the princi– pal Attribute in our Salvation to be illullrated,) he fets, r. TheTermin"' a quo, the fiate from which, a fiate of Death and Wrath, in and for Sin, v. r, 2, 3· And, 2. After magnifying the Riches of Love and Mercy of the Raifer of us 'out of this efiate, he comes here to fet out the Terminru ad quem, the fiate to which we are hy degrees to be advanced, in thefe words : Which is the Third General Head, of this firll part of this Chapter, ·tbewing, how all this is and !hall be perfected, according to a correfpondence and proportion with that ·he wrought in Chri!r. Now this.perfetl:ing ofour Salvation, or the whole Work ·of (jod·upon us, in a co.refpondency to that in Chrift, he fums up in two Ueads, which c6?tain in the~ three parts, or degreesthereo£ Firll ; To two Heads: · As; : :J . 1. What is alreaqy in this Life begun, and to be done in us here perfonally, We ""• quicftned with Chrif1;· · . 2. What remains yet perfonally to be perfected in us in the World to come, yet at prefent is reprefentatively done in our Head : Raifed 11p, andjttir,g in ~eavenly Places. · Secondly ; Thefe two, comprehending three eminent parts or degrees of our Salvation. · · r. ~ickzing, whieli is put to exprefsall the whole Work of God upon our Souls here, qntil Death, in a copformity to Chri!r. . ~. Raifing up our :Bodies, and ou,r wh0le Man, as he did Chrill's. 3· Glorifying us with him, in the fame Place, and with the fame Glory, for the fubfiinee of it. Thirdly·; You may obferve,' that :>H thefe three arc faid to bedonewith Clrrift, ·and m'Ofmft.; f<H:Iimpleat!y making up the 'J?:dition, or other. part of that Companfonb~tweenus and Chrifi, namely, how the Work m us IS conformable to tqat on Chn!r: Raifed, as he, v. 19. Set m heavenly Places, as he, v. 20. . < · This
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