234 c Eph.r.6. 3 Infuf$ciency ofany created power ton.i -i nifter the life ofgrace. q.Excellency of fpirituall lift, Creature infufficient. whom they are enlightned ; the rootby whom theyareen- livened ; the Store-houfe by whom they are enriched the fountain by whom they are repleni(hed, they are 6leffed with allfpirituall ble¡ags in Chrift. God convayes all in mercy unto man thorough Chrift ; nothing proves a blef- fìng unto man, but what he huh by venue of his con- junaion with Chrift there is no relationoflove and peace betweeneGod, and the foule of man, but only in and through Chrift, ,acob and his formes found favour with Pharaoh, only for yofeph.r fake.Chrift istheonly Medium rot mans favor andacceptance with God,healone is made ofGod to be oifdome, righteoufneIre, fine`1ification and redemptionunto man: God bath put thevery whole ofmanshappineffe in Chrift J cfus. 3. By the infufficiency of any created power to minifler the life ofgrace to man ; this is above 'the power of men and Angels ; the difpenfation of life is peculiar to him that is Lord of life ; the induftry ofman is ufed indeed as an in- ftrument of fpirituall vivification, but the efficacy is from :Chrift ; to this worke all created ftrength without Chrift is like the ftrength of <1,Egypt in another cafe tofet !fill, the difeafed woman in the Gefpell fpent all her fubftance up- on the Phyfitians,and yet there was no healing, man may fpend all his time and fub(lance upon the creature, and the creature may fpend all its ability about man, and yet when all is done, without Chrift there will be no fpirituall quick ping; Am I ei God(faid the King of Ifrael to Naaman) to kill and to make alive , that this man dothfend unto me to recover amanofha llprofie: Thus may theholielt Saint andmolt glorious Angell fay, AmIa Godto kill andto make alive, tò kill fn and to enliven the foul, that man fhould looke tome for fpirituall vivification,the filtEoiencyof the choyfeft creatures is a borrowed fufficiency,derived fromChrift, andtheefficacy and working thereof is wholy dependant upon Chrift. 4. By thedignityandexcellency off jtiritualllife; a life of that noblenes and eminency, that none but Chrift, who is life it ßelf, can communicate it ; a feed which none but Chrift can low, a tree whichnonebut Chritt the great Husbandman of the foule can plant ; the life ofgrace arifcth from a principle farre
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