to the E P H ES I A N S. Faith come, and the Holy Ghofr quicken his Soul,inorder to Eternal Life. There-~ fore all preparatives to Grace, are not alefs degre~ to th~ fame kind. We h<:>pe ~ better thi~gs ofyou, ~nd f~chas accompany Salvatton, fatth the Ap<:>file~ hav~n~ fpoken of glorious e~hghtnmgs ; So the leafr Dram ofGrace~nd 9mckmng! tt ts a thing ofanother kmd from all preparatory Works. and enhghtmngs, and In re~ fpect ofan holy Life, Man is dead. I come now to the Benefit. Even when we were dead in Sin1 and TrejpajJe1 ; He Fu.th quicl;.ned m together with Chrift. Here are three things to be fpoken to. I. The benefit it felf. 2. The,Author, the principal Author ofit, God the Father, that is fetched in, in the coherence from the verfe before, God bath quickzed m. Then, 3· The Perfon with, and by whom, and by Fellowlliip with whom he bath quickned us; Hehath quicl;.ned m tegether with Chrift. Thefe three things I will fpeak to as briefly as I can. Firfr, For the Benefit it felf. I will fpeak a little in General, and then particularly defcribe it to you. Firfr, In general, by quickzing here is meant quickning out of Death, that is cl~ar, for When we were dead he quirkzed 111. The Word is fo taken, Rom. 4· 17. Rom. 8. IO. He jhaUquichgnyour mortal Bodiu. Now indeed the Word is ufed fometimc:s for things that are not raifed from the dead, and yet it is called quick– ning, a giving Life, fo the Word fignifies making to live; that is the pJoper fig– nification ofthe Word,it is applied to all things living, I Tim.5.I3.God that ptick; net!?'all things, all things that live God quickens. AndAdammight be faid to be quickned when he had the Breath of Life, that is, God made him to live, fo the Word fignifies. Now I will not frand upon it. Now the next thing in General that I am to open isthis,by quickning (I take it) -is meant the whole Work of God on us, the whole Work of God is called quick– ning. My.reafon is, becaufe though he principally aim at Converfion, When we were dead in Sin1 and TreJPajfu, he begins to do it, yet he names this as the firft de– gree, which ends in Glory, as it is ver. 6. So he familiarly includes and compre– hends all-that whole ftate ofGrace, and theWorks ofit ; it is called quickning, though principally and eminently, the firft putting in of the Holy Ghoft, and a principle ofLife into a Man. You 1hall find in Scripture, that the whole ftateofGrace is called Life; as Glo– ry alfo, fometimes is nothing but Life. Life is ufually put for Glory, and it is ufu– ally put for Grace; therefore when he would exprels the difference between the one ftate and the other, he faith, We are paffed from Death to Life; By th;. we kzow that we are pajfed from Death to Life. And when Chrift would expre!. a Man tltat hath no Grace, that is not in the ftate ofprace, he expreffeth it by thecontra– ry, he hath no Life in him: And he that eateth not my Flejb, hath no Lift in hint, Joh. 6. that is, he hath no Grace, nothing that belongs or pertains to the ftate of Grace. Brethren,you 1hall find this, that Grace i$ fo properly compared to Life,and the working ofGraceon us, that when the Scripture compares the People of God to dead things, for other refpects ; yet he brings the Word living too: as for exam– ple, They are Stones, and precious Stones, 1 'Pet. 2. but he adds living Stones, when he calls them Sacrifices,that ufed always to be dead things,he calls them./ivhtg Sacrifice~, Rom. 12. I. They are Trees, but Trw of Life; and their Graces are compared toWaters, but /iviltg 1f4ters, and Waters ofLife: Still he runs upon ' the
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