Lifeofgrace from Chrifl. 4. A Suke55E, in me. true believers are the only fubje&of fpirituall life. , Firft ofthe terme cf oppofition, but, a word fignifying an oppolrion of things in that fenfe in which things are oppofed,. Labour not for the meat (faith Chrift) which peri- fheth,rn but for that meat Which endureth unto everlafting life, na Ioh_6.z7. and again, lay not up for your felvestreatre on earth, nbut nNfat.6.tq,2o. lay upfor your(elves treafures in Heaven : And fo likewife Ephef 5 27,1 &. it is the Apoflles charge ; be not unzeife, but e nderfiandig What the will of the Lord is : And be not drunke with wine wherein u excefe, but be filled with the Spirit f And thus the Apofle here, I live, yet not I, but Chriii liveth in me : 1 live indeed, but it is not ofmy l'elfe,, but from Chrift, it is not ofnature, but ofgrace,. Chrift is the root offpirituall life in me. It is plaine andmanifefl to the feelin, andexperience ofgods Note. children that they have not the life of ,Grace and holineffe from, themfelves, but from Chrift ofs :. they know that Chrift is the authour and finit ter of their filvation they know that Chrift is in them : examine your felves, proove your felves, know yee not that Chrift is o inyou, except yee be re- ° 2 Cor. r;.y, probates, faith the Apoflle : We know (faith S. john) that we p t Ioh, y.zo, are of Cod, quickning, regenerating, enlightntng and fan- edifying us ; andwe know that thefonne of God z come, and . bath given us an underflandin; to know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his fanne7efus Chrifl, this is the true God and eternall life ; they know that Chrift . is in them, as a root enlivening them, asa Sun illuminating them, as a Refiners fire purging them. The woman of Kin.4. Shunem q knew that the Prophet had raifed her ,dead fon to life, the children of God know that Chrift bath railed . their foules which were dead in finnes and trefpaffes; the blind man r knew that whereas he was blind he did now r Ioh;s fee, and that Chrift had opened his eyes, Gods children z K,'";. haveexperiencepfChrifts opening the eyes of their under- 1. (landing. aaman knew that 7ordsn had walled away the s a Cor.6.9. leproìe which claveunto him, Gods fervants (knew that they lare wafhed, faní7ified and/unified in thename of the Lord" J e- I fus,ánd by the SpiritofGod. Gods, 229
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