Nir Mans alienationfax the life ofgrace, 2 bath chofen to falvation ; Chrift, faith S.John, bath b power Ioh 17.a. over all flef7 that be fhouldgive life to as many as God the Father kath given him, all that partake of the life ofgrace,. derive and borrow the fame from Chili; who is the way i leading, the truth enlightning , and the' lifequickning un-I to life everlatìing, and the Apoflie faith, our life is hid with, Chrift ingod, as the life ofthebranch is hid in the root and Chriii is called, our life, by S. Paul, and our life, or the au- thour of fpirituall life,. he is in us, by way of Revelation, he opensand fhewes the way to life, without Chrift we are all in darknefle and the fhadowcf death, andnoman knows the Father but the Sonne, and he to whom the Sonne will reveale him. Our life he likewife is by way ofineritoriotet impetration, he bath purchafed life for us. Our life by way of originali ; the life of grace is originally in Chrift, and from him communicated unto us. Our life by way ofopc- ration, he quickneth us by the powerfitli worke ofhis Spi- rit. And our life by way of con;untlion; he unites himfelfe, communicates himfelfe , and all his benefits to us, as the Prophet applyed himfelfe to the woman of Shunems fonne, and rayfed him to life. And that Chrift is the Authour of fpirituall life to Gods children is appa-' i. By mans alienation and eftrangement from the life of Gr°údshereof grace without Chrift; the branch without the root, the bo- ¿.plans alien,- dy without the foule hath no life ; man without Chrift tion from the is a withered branch, a dead carcaffe, dead in furies and lifeof grace. trefpaífes, twice dead and plucked up by the roots and it is in Chrifts hand alone to quicken him, Lord, faid Peter to our Saviour, whither, (hall we gee, thou haft the words of eter- nail life : theword revealing; promifing and working life in all that are ordained unto life. 2 By Chrifts ordination, and appointment to minifirer all a C hriíls ordi_ n 'won thins to Gods cho en the fullneffe of light is difpenced to ideCOmini- g i ; Qer hfe, the ayre by the Sun, fulnelfe of' water is difpenced by the Sea unto the earth ; the fulnefle of' Egypt was difpenced to the people by fofeph ; the fulneffe ofGod is difpenced to the foules of men by Chrift ;: Chrift is the Sunne by whom
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