364 11? ettnuO JfaftD one is his Deatb, and the other is his Refur- reelion : The experiment of both is emphati- cally fet forth by St. Paul, That I may know him, and the power of his Refurreílion, and the fellowfhip of his Sufferings, being made con forma_ ble to his Death, Phil. 3'. t o. Tune rear cog - nofeitur Chriffus, faith Calvin, dum fTntimas quid valeat Mors ejus & Refurreflio ; Then we truly know Chrift, when we feel the power of his Death and Kefurrettion in our on hearts. Jefus Chrift died for us, His Soul was an offering for Sin, his Life rv7Pov.a Ranfom for many ; He fa- tisfied Gods Jufrice, opened a door of Mercy, and procured the effufion of the holy Spirit ; and all this Faith may experiment. In the calms of Confcience the Believer may feel the atoning Blood of Chrift, purging his heart from dead works to ferve the living God ; In the mor. tifying of Lugs he may find a fecret virtue from Chrift crucified, enabling him for the work ; In all the fweet gales and operations of the holy Spirit he bath a proof of that meritori- ous Pafiion which procured them ; and when he Rumbles and falls into fin and drives away that Spirit for a time, in its return he bath a proof, that Chrift is a Prieft after the Power of an endlefs life. The vexed grieved Spirit might utterly forfake fuch faultring backiliding Creatures as we are, and leave us defolate for an habitation of Devils and unclean fpirits for ever ; but the endlef life of Merit in Chrift caufes it to return to us again, and thereby gives us a molt precious experiment thereof. At Swerin in Germany, there was a little drop of
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