x88 An Expojition of the cpijUe ~ to communicate that Life that is in himfelf to us, I 1ohn 1. I. Chrif1: is called erlil.XI · eternal Life as he was w1th God ; and he was mcarnate, and took Flen.. on p ~ ?.· .d 1 "'Utpofe that this L1fe m1ght be commu~Icate : I ohn 5· I I. The Father bath given m eternal Lift in hi< own D~cree.. F1rf1:, God purpofed, that Man lhould live in Union and Comm~mon With h1m, and pa~take of that L1fe that he himfelf lives and commumcates 1t as far as the Creature Is capab~e: He bath given to m eternal .Lift : Well ! wher~ hath he put 1t for us to have 1t ? ANd, faith he, thi< Lift ;. in his S011, that he _mtght.'mtte thmt t_o htm. John I 7· 2. Thine they were, thou gaveff: them me, that I tmght gtve eternal Lift to tU many as tho11 h".ft given me. So he gives it to them, he living by the Father, they are given to him; he bdl:ows Life on them, they live by him. So that to exprefs it more fully, the Godhead dwells in the humane Nature of Chrif1:, and is a quickning Spirit to him, and by virtue of our relation to liim having Union \~ith him, ~e quickens us, and never ref1:s till he hath brought u; to that Union WithG~, m our mea~ure and proportion that Chrif1: bath. Col. 3 . 3 • our Sav10ur Chnf1: IS fa1d to be ~mr Ltfe: Our Lift ts lnd wtth Chrijl in God, and when our Lift fba/1 appear, that 1s, Ch~1fl: ; .therefore "!e are faid to be quickned with Chrif1:, as the Author of our qmcknmg. That IS the firfl: Sence that is put upon it, fo fame Interpreters ca~ry it, tranOating_it properly. In the fecond place, when 1t 1s fa1d, We are qmck_ned together with Chrifi, it be– ing a quickning out of Death, as I told you, it evidently implies, That this Lord ofours, Jefus Chrif1: our _Life, was alfo dea? ; fo by virtue of his dying, and be– ing quickned, we are qmckned together wuh h1m. I Pet. 3· 18. it is faid He 2 v 115 put to deatb in the Flejh, but quick_ned in the Spirit; that is, raifed by the God– head, being put to Death. He had quickning and dying, and by virtue of that quickning and dying of his we are quickned ; fo we are quickned together with him, both by his Death and Refurreebon. We are quickned by his Death, to purchafe that Life and Qyickning that we were to have; therefore you read in 1ohn IO. and in 1ohn ?· 21. and many pla– ces, That he gave his Life for the L1fe of theWorld ; and h1s Flefu, as crucified and broken, is that that hath purchafed Ltfe. I fuall not need to fl:and to give you Places. Again, on the other fide, by virtue of his Refurreltion we are alfo quickned; therefore it is called, The Virt11e of /Jis Rejitrref1ion, Phil.3.Io. Ip Ifa, 26.I9. there is a Prophecy of the Converfion of the Jews : Thy dead Men fbaU live, together with my dead Body fhallthey arife: He~e is quickning together with Jefus Chrifl:; his Body was dead, and rofe agam; faith he, Thy dead Men fhall live ; fpeaking to that Nation that were fcattered all the World over. How do we know, that .their,Converfion is called a RefurreCl:ion from the dead ? How come they to rife, and to be quickned? Witb my dead Body, by virtue of my Refurrection; he fpeaks of a Dew afterwards, there is a Dew falls from the RefurreCl:ion of Chri{l:, a virtue which quickneth us : So we are quickned with Chrifl:. Again, in the third place, We are faid to ~equickned w~th Jefus Chrifl:, becaufe the fame life that Jefus Cbn(l: IS qmckned w1th, we are; lt IS called the Life of 1ef~n, 1 Cor. 4· Tho Paul fpeak of the life of the Body, it is called the life of Jefus : We are delivered to Death, that the Lift •f 1efus 111ight be manifefled in us. As he lives in the f.wour of God, as he lives to God, fo we live to God ; it is the fame life; the fame Spirit that quickned him, quickneth us, Rant. 8. 10. The fame Spirit that raifed ~is Body, quickens our Souls; if we be quickned truly, we live with the fame hfe that Jefus Chnfl: d1d. · Lajlly ; We are faid to be quickned with hi~ in this ~ence, becaufe when he was raifed and qmckned, we were fa1d to be ra!fed and qmckned m h1m, as a Per– fan rcprefentative; fo by virtue of that we are now quickned perfonally. What faith the Apo(l:!e ? Rom.~.I I. Rec~n your ftlves alive to God, tU. Ch~ijl is; why? Becaufe when Jefus Chnfl:_ was q~uc~ned, when he ar~fe, ye d1d ~Ife ; when he was quickned, you were qmckned mh1m, and !hall have1t compleat m your felves. Therefore tho itbe imperfect quickning, it is thy c':'mfort that thou art quick~ed with Chrif1:, and in Chrifl: as an Head fir(]: ; and as h1s hfe was perfect,fo !hall rbme be: and in the mean time, tho tliou canfl: not fay, it is wrought in me, thou rnayefl: fay, it is wrought in my Head for me, I may fay, it is perfect in him: ~'if,
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