d nExpojition of the Epi{Ue ~ ~ Again, in the third place, do b~t confider ~he <:xceliency of this Dfe : lt is :t greater life than when we were m Adam, mfimtely greater ; we are quickned with Chrift, with the fame life that Chrift is quickned with. Alas ! when Adam was quickned, he was quickned by the Law i but Jefus Chrift is our life, Adam"s life was nothing: John to. 10. I came that you might have Life, and have it more ab11ndantly. Therefore indeed and in truth we explain this Life to you : by our Death in Sin we cannot do it; why? becaufe our Death in Sin·is a deprivation only of that we had in Adam, but it is reftored infinitely. I am come to give yott Life, and to give it more ahllndantly. It is a higher Juftification, living in the eternal favour of God, Ada11t was but in the temporal favour of God. Laflly; To end"Jll, it is evident here, that the-ApofHe principally means our Calling,. the firft Infufion, the Holy-Ghoft putting in a Principle of life, and ma– king m new Creatures. Therein is infinite love, next to the Death of Chrift, that he quickned us when we were dead.: God that is rich in Mere} hath ptick._ned m. There are three Ails of God, wherein his love is: The firft is, his love from Eternity. The other, when he gave Jefus Chrift for us. The third, when he called us firft, and converted and ttlrned us. What is the reafon that we lhould account it fo great a Work ? The reafon is, becaufe then we were quickned with Jefus Chrift. Let the Principle of life be never fo fmali, it is the Seed of God, that lhali rife to eternal life, therefore he that believeth bath eternal life; what faith the Apoflle in the next words? By Grace ye are faved: He faith not, ye lhall be, but ye are faved ; for this life bath eternal life in the feed, and !hall be railed to eternal life. Therefore when God calls a Man,a!Lthe thoughts of love that he had from Eter• nity, all the thoughts of love he had when Chrift came in the Flefh, all that ever he means to do for a Man, is before him, and he cftates this Man in all ; all that God bath done, and will do, are in that All conccntered, when he quickens him ; for then a Man bath polfeffion and right of all : And this fhaU go on, till it come to the height of perfection, as the Scripture holds it out ; to fit together in heavenly Places in Chrift Jcf111. SERM.
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