Godlinefe rare. 259 rit that r quic&&neth : It is a beame from the brighten Sun, Ion, even ( brill J efns the Son ofRighteoufneffe : /(faith Chrift) am the bread of life tome downe from Heaven, if any man eat of this bread he fall live for ever. It is a fireame from the higheft and purcPc fountaine, the Spirit ofgrace, becoming in the foule of man a Well of Water .fJirinoingup into ever. f lob 4.r4. hafting life. a. In regard of the nature of it, a l iritunll life, a life z.Nature. of holàneff and righteoufheil: ; a life firpailing the life of nature, as the Sun the Glo- worme, as the Vine the bratn- ble ; and they that live this life are laid to Wal&einnew- nefe of life : Ha',ing a new-birth, being borne againe, and r Rotn.6.4 having new principles and qualities pat into them by the Spirit of God ; the Lord according, to his promife, put- ting a u new heart into them ; their foules being renewed a Ezek.z i.t9. and changed , not in fubilance, but in qualities, framed a new after God in known dge, righteoufneffè and true ho- lineffe, made new creatures, and leading a converfation pure, and urblameable in the fight of God, and that life z Cor. 5.17. which is molt full of graceand bolines, is ofall lives themolt noble and glorious. 3. to regard of the rarity ofit ; few men live this life, ;Rarity. the Whole World (as S. folio faith) lies in wickednefje, dead in fins and trefxf`Ïes, as the old world lay drowned in the deluge, only Noah and his Family, a few perfons lived in the Arlie; it is but a little remnant, x one of a city and two XIer.;.14. ofa Tribe, as the Prophet fpeakes,that live this life. Strait ù the gate and narrow is the way (faith Chrill) which lea- deth unto life, and few there be that finde ir. A godly per- fon is a rare jewell ; God di(penceth the life ofgrace only to his chofèn : Chrift in the dayes ofhis flefhrayfèd not all the dead to life, but onely a few, one now and another then: thus (hrift in the day of the Gefpell, doth not quicken all, but a few, one here, and another there : the number ofthetnf that prof:if themfelves Chríftians, is indeed very great, but the number of them in whomChrift lives is very (mall, the greateff part, like the Angell ofthe Church of Sardis, having a Y name that they live, andyet are dead, theoutward formeand yitev, 3.1. X4 thew
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