2:2'2 ' Ioh.s.zt. Chrif zt theWorker of ,{firitxalllife. in hitn', is under the death of fin, and bath nocleare know- ledge, no comfortable remembrance, no bleffed talle and feeling, no honourable and foul-ravithing apprehenfions of God ; no delight in God, no comfortable communion with God ; we difcerne andapprehend God loving, tnercifitlland gracious, onely in and thorough Chrifl working in us the life of true holineffe ; mans thoughts ofGod are more or lefte joyous and delightful) according to the meafire of Chrifls' working withinhim. CnAP a X 1 L THe fecond thing in thefe words, is an aáent or Author, and that is Chrif},- Chrifl lived; in his-Saints, he is the worker of this life; the life of Gods children bath a very honourable originali, it is not from a natural); but fróna a fpirituall feed : the life of nature is ftrrè infèriour to the life of grace. Life communicated by earthly Parents, is an unworthy life, in refpeCt ofthat life which Chrifl doth nti- nifler unto us ; a life which goes not by generation, but by regeneration ; a life communicable by no creature, dif- penced only by him who lives of himfelfe, and gives life toothers at his pleafore; according to S.Pauls open prófeflion that Chrifl lived inhim, was'the authour ofthe life ofgrace to him, Chewing us, That Chri,°t is the Atithour of s`fiirituall life to dl gods children ; he raifed the body of Lazarus to .a bodily life, he rayfeth our foules to a fpirituall life ; he a quickens whom he will, he bath power to quicken all, his will is to quic- ken only fame; when he was on earth, he could have ray - fed all the dead to life, yet he rayfed but only a fw,thus now he bath 'power to quicken all men to a fpirituall life, but his will is to quicken only fore, fuch as God the Father bath
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