tTannerofChrifif living in .tblotn. :25,3 'life todepend upon God and Chrif ,forcouofell,fupportment) protcaion anddeliverance ; and this is Chrifls livingin mans and Chriffs keeping and continuingman in thedlate of grace unto the flareofglory. , Ifyou aske me howor in what manner Chrift begins to Manner of live in man? I anfwer.: ChriLts living I. Chrift Both awaken man,as the Angell (mote Peter upon in awake. the fide, and . awakenedhimwhen he flept between the two ,,ing !q,n. fouldiers, with fetters upon -him in Herod( prifon. This doth x Aets t z.7. Chrift by his word without,and the motion of his fpirit with- in, fmitc.upon the heart and confcience ofman fleeping be- tween two great fouldiers, the devill on his right hand, and the world on his left hand, in theprifon of fin ; Chrift thus fauiting upon man, awakens man, caufes him to open his eyes, tofee his iniferable andwretched eftate, tofee the dan- ger wherein he{lands : As theProphet y opened the eyes ofy a King;6,zo. the Syrians, and -let them fee they were in Samaria, in the hands of theirenemies. Tbus Chrift awakensman, opens the eyesof mans underfianding, and makes him fee himfelfe in thehands of Satan, lead away captiveby himat his will, in thegall of bitterneffe, and under the bond ofiniquity, poore, blind, naked, miferable and wretched ; Chrift makeshim fee theneceffity he hath ofhis righteoufneffe to juflifie him, ofhis power to deliver him, of his interceliion to reconcile God untohim, and ofhis, fulneffe to fill him. Thus when Chrift intended to live in Paul, he firft awakened him out of his fpirituall ileep and (lumber, he made him fee himfelfe e zw z alive once<faith he) Without the Law, I was once ig- t loti1.7 p. norant of the Law, 1 was blind, and knew not themeaning of the Law, I thought my 'felfe to be a living man in Gods fdmily,a Mining flarrein the firmament of Gods Church, and afruttfull vine in the Lords vineyard, but When the commanded ment came,finne revived, -andIdyed ; when Chriftawakened me; opened my eyes, and inabled me to difcerne a tight of the commandement, then I faw I was under the dominion of finne,as adeadman is under the dominionofdeath,whollÿ poffeffed by finne, as the dead by death. an bath farft the fence of his being dead in finne before hehaththefenced X Chrift
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