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SERM:
X.]
THE
HIDDEN
LINE
OP
A
CHRISTIAN.
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blessings
answerable to
that
rich
variety,
with which
our
Lord Jesus
Christ,
the High-
treasurer
of
heaven,
was
furnished
from
the
hand
of
the
Father.
And
to this
pur-
pose, perhaps,
John
v.
26. may be
interpreted,
corn-
pared
with
ver. 21. As the
Father
hath
life in himself
so
bath
he
given
to
the
Son
to
have
life
in
himself
;
that
as the
Father
raiseth
up
the
dead,
and
quickeneth
them,.
even
so
the
Son
may quicken'whom
he
will.
The
blessed
Spirit
itself,
as
it
is
the
great
promise
of
the
New
Testament, and the glorious
gift
of
God-
to
men,, was
communicated
to
the
Son,
and
by him
be-
stowed
upon
us;
for he went
to
heaven to receive the
promise
of
the Spirit
from
the Father, and
he
shed
it
forth
upon the apostles and
the
believers;
Acts
ii.
33.
I't is
this
Spirit
who gave
miraculous
gifts to
them
here=
°
tofore,
that
is
the immediate principle,
or worker,
of
divine
life in
dead souls
now
:
And
it
is
by
this
same Spi-
rit,
that
he
shall
raise
our
dead
bodies
from the
grave;
Rom.
viii.
11.
He
isthe
spring
of our
spiritual and eter-
nal life;
and
he
is
dispensed
to
us
from the Father,
by
the hands
of
the
Son.
And here
it
is
proper
to
take notice
of
the special
manner
wherein
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
the
treasurer,
or
keeper
of
life,
and
all
divine benefits for the saints,
and
'becomes
the dispenser
thereof
to his
people: He
is
ordained
to
stand
in
the
relation
of
a
head to
them,.
and
they
are
his body, his
members.
Thus our
life
is
hid-
den
with
Christ,
as.
he
is
the vital head
of
all his
saints.
Their
life
is.hid with
Christ,
as the
spirits and springs
of
life,
for
all
the members
in
the
natural
body
are
said to
be
contained
in
the head.
Christ
is
the head
of
his own
mystical
body,
Eph.
iv.
16.
from
whom
the
whole
body,
fitly
joined
together, tnaketh increase
to its own
edification
:
it
is
the
same vital
spirit
that
runs through
head and members.
He
that
is"
joined
to
the
Lord,
is
one
Spirit;
1
Cor.
vi.
1-j.
and
therefore partakes
of
the
same life..
Thus
you
see,
that
though the
life
of
a christian
is
hidden
in
God,
in
the all
-
sufficiency
of
his
nature,
and
the purposes
of
his will
;
yet
our Lord Jesus
Christ, as-
Mediator,
is
entrusted
to
keep
it
for
hire,
and dispense
it
to
him.
2
Our
life
is
hid with
Christ,
as
he
is
our forerunner,