92 SERMONSupon Serm. XIV'.. and walk not after the fief?), but after the fpirit, Rom. 8. 1. ( which begun this Difcourfe) The double principle and ground of hope inforceth it. 2. To die comfortably. Chri(tianity affordeth the proper comforts againfi death, as it is a natural and penal evil; a natural evil it is, as it puts an end to prefent comforts ; 'Lis a penal evil, as itmaketh way fortheltnal judgment, Heb. 9. 27. Heathens could on- ly teach them to fubmit to it out of necefty, or asa debt they owed to nature, or an end of the prelènt miferies 5 but Chri(tianity, as shelling of it is gone, r Cor. 15. 56, As the property is altered, r Cor. 3.22. Death is yours, and that upon folid grounds ; as the life of grace is introduced, and fin is forgiven, and the conclufions drawn from thence : fr(t, the life of grace introduced ; how bitter is the remembrance of death to the carnal man ? much more the enduring of it; a dying body, and a (tattling confcience maketh them afraid of everla(ting death; and fo much fin as you bring to your death bed, fo much bitternefs you will have; fo much holinefs, fo far you have eternal life in you;and the more 'tis aited in the fruits of holinefs, the more comfort, /ía.38.3. A little without,is grievous, when all is amifs within. Secondly, (tn is forgiven upon the account of the righteoufnefs of Chrift, for we (hall then be foiled if found in no other righte- oufnefs than our own, Phil. 3. 8, g. That I may be found in him, not having my own righte- oxfnefs. In (hors, the wort that can befal believers is, that'tis the death but, of a part, the wont and bafe(t part, and that but for a feafon, the bodies of the Saints (hall not always lye in the grave, nor can it be imagined they (hall peri(h as the bea(is ; no, but be railed up from the grave, and their vile bodies be changed like unto the Glorious' Body of their Redeemer. SERMON XIV. ROM. VIII. ar. If the Spirit of hint that railed up Jefus from the dead, dwell in you, he that railed up Chrifi from the dead (ball alto quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwélleth in you. H E Apofile is anfwering a doubt, How there is no Condemnation to them that are in Chrift, Pince death, which is the fruit of fin, yet re- maineth on the Godly? Anfwer, 1. Sy conceffon, that fin is indeed the feed and original of morta- lity, the body is dead becaxfeof fn: Not only the carnal undergo it, but the jufifed ; tho the guilt of fin be taken away by a pardon, and the dominion and power of it be broken by the Spirit of Chrift, yet the being of it is not quite aboli(hed; and as long as fin remaineth in us in theleaft degree, it maketh us fubjeft to the power of death. 2. By way of corre¿ lion : He oppofeth a double comfort againit it. Deftru &ion by fin is neither total nor final: Firft, Not total, 'tis but an half death, v. ro. The fpirit is life becaufe of righteoufnefr : Secondly, Norfinal, it hath a limit of time Cet, which when it is expired, the body (hall have an happy Refurreetion, and that by vertue of the fame fpirit by which the foul is now quickned ; fo that mark, both parts receive their happi- nefs by the fpirit, the foul and the body; the foul tho it be immortal in its felt yet the bleffed immortality it hath from the fpirit ; the fpirit is life becaufe of righteoufnefs: and the dead body (hall not finally peri(h, but be lure to be railed again by the fame fpirit, If the fpirit of him, &c.
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