The soles effelluallsailing toGhtift. 3 119 from death unto life : Ah, what a happy condi- tion is this ? that a man may fay, Lord, I was a childofwrath,I wonder thatGod cut me notoff, and I admire at it that God lent mee not downe tohell everynight that Iwent tobed ! but now the Lord hath made mee tobeleeve, and hath ac- cepted me;I was under thecurieof God, andnow God bathdeliveredme, andnowI havebeleeved in the promife,and now I have a right to thepro.. mife,and all the mercy and goodneffe in it ; thus the foule hath a fupply of this firif want, and is brought into favourwith Godagaine. The fecond want of the foule is this; the foule Want a being now departed fromGod, the God ofall wifdome, good, and life; hence it is that the foule is deprivedofall good,and grace, and life ; forwand the a grace ule being departed from God,and therefore the Lord ftrips the fouleofall that righte- oufnefí'e and holineffe it had inAdam ; the Lord gave him wifdome and righteoufnefe in /dam, and in him to all his pofterity; but now being gone fromGod, God bath juftly taken all from him fo that now the poore firmer is dead, and though he lives, becaufe he bathanaturall life in him ; yet he lives not fpiritually, becaufe he bath no fpirituall life in him,and therefore can doe no fpirituall good ; he canneither doe well,nor live well, that thereby bee might pleafe God for his comfort. Now faithReps in like a friend at a dead lift, and lendshelpe this way ; it not onely brings a S f a firmer il
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