to the E P H ES I AN S. SERMON £PHES; %; 5~ -13yGrace year~ Jaovetl. XV; T . H E Words o~~his Sth r~erfo, ~~ into th~fe three par~icular5. Here is; ., 1. A repeuuon ofour condition, whtch we were m by Natnre, toil– lull:rate Grace the more, Whtn we were dead in Sins (faith he) He hlllh tpticftned tu together r»ith Chrifl. Here is, 2. The firll:tBenefit bell:owed upon us, and that in this Life, which is the Seed ofGlory, ONr heing tptickted, and that with Chrift. Then, . 3· The Apoll:le's Note, by way of Obfervation upon it, (in a Parenthefis) whereby he fets a Mark, as it were aFinger in the Margent, to note this as a re· Cult from hence ; BJGr4CeJe arejlt'Ved. I opened the Benefit, which is here bell:owed upon us, in the !all: Difcourfe. I fuewed"what was meant by quickning. And why it is faid, we ore qHicftned together with Chrift. Firfi, I !hewed what was meant by quickning, and went over all thofe parti-' clar$. Both 1. In refpeet ofJufrification. I !hewed you according to the Scripture Phrafe; that it is a quickning,' a giving Life: So in Col. 2.1 3· He bath qHicktedJPH together with Chrift, havingforgivenJOlt aiiTrefP•Jfel. And · 2. I !hewed you how that all the fellowlhip we have with God,and his fulnefs; it is in the Scripture called Life and ff<!!ickting. All the Joy we have in the Fa– vour and loving kindnefs ofGod, which is better than Life; it is called quick• ning. And then 'I· The Image of God which confill:eth in Holinefs, it is a Spirit of quick– ning. And 4· The putting in the Holy Gholl: into our Soul, and his dwelling there for ever,as a Soul in our Soul, and the unionof the Godheadof Chrill: to us,ofChri!l: who is our Life ; by this alfo we arequickned. And then 5· Andlaflly, Every frirring ofthe Regenerate part, every Spiritual Affection; every Holy End and Purpofe, that is railed up in the Heart ofa Believer,through– out the whole courfe of his Life, all thefe are quicknings, and they are from our having been quickned together with Chrill:. Pial. 8o. 18. f0_ic/tgn 111, and we roiU call upon thy N4111e: the ability which a Man bath to pray in a Spiritual way, it is a quickning. Secondly, I !hewed you, how we are quickned togeth~r with Chrifl; and how · ourquickning .dependeth upon his being quickned. For he was put to Death in the Fldh,and quickned in the Spirit, as the Apoflle Peter fpeaks, 1 'Pet. 3· 18. I added a third, which is the fcope of the Apoflle here, and that is the greatnefs ofthis Work. For Itake it that quickning here, contains not limply only our firfl Converfion, though eminently that, but all that is done upon us in this Life; as on the other fide thole thatfollow in the 6tlrverfe, are the Works, which God will work in our Perfons, one day in the World to come. The greatnefs ofthis Work, I demonll:rated by fuch things·as are proper tl> the Text. As t. That ~ Serm.XV, ~
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