218 Chris`ianr life a6arroWed life. CHAP. XVIII. The fecond generail Parr. Spiritual! viifllcatiolt. f*He feed Erl dies, and then.is q aickened, and fpringeth, 11 up into a greene and flourtihing blade : Man lira dyes to inn; and then lives toGod : TheSyens is fìrl removed oút of the old and naturali Bocke,. and then he is grafted into another Bocke, becom °s a living branch itì another Tree:. Man:firl denyes himfelfe; goes out of' himfelfe, ceafeth from. himfelfe, and thenhe is in-grafted, into Chrift, Chrift lives in him, and he lives in Chrift, according to this of the Apolle. here, I live,yetnot 1, Eut Chrifi liveth inme, The fecond generals thing 'obferved: in thefe words, is, f iiritsta'l vivifimtion. Chrïft living in all them that live the life of' grace T'he life of a Chriflian it a borrowedlife, he bath it not of himfelfe, but from another, it is no naturali, but a fpirituall life, a life not fpringing originally from man, but derivative and flowing from Chrifl : Every. Chrilian though wondrouflyenriched by Chril, yet is very pooreofhimfelfe, his very fpirituall life is aborrowed thing ; Sinne bath made' man extreamely poore, it bath not onely robbed him, but alfo llaine him, it bath utterly, taken, the life, of' grace from him, and none but Chrift can, quicken him: The Chrilian bathno.caufe of glorying inhimfelfe, but all his glory is in Chrift ; the ,very whole of true Chrtlians is from Chrift, J.efus ; Chrift is both the fountaine filling, and the life quickening them ; they cannot but acknowledge withPauli It is Chrifl lives in them. In the words we have, I. Aterme of oppofition, But 2: An.A -Bent or Authont, aria he is the Author of this fpiritualllife. 3, fin A0, liveth.: Chrilians live not the lif; of grace by themfelves,it is received fromChrift. 4
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