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SEAM. X.3
THE HIDDEN LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN,
1
R
second
Adam
is
the
Lord
from heaven,
a
quickening
Spirit;
i
Cor.
xv.
45,
&c.
And
he
that
believeth
on
him,
though he were
dead
in
nature, yet
shall
he live
by
grace, for
Christ
is
the
resurrection
and the
life
:
And
if
he
be
once
made
spiritually
alive by
Christ,
he
shall
live
for ever.
This
is
the
language
of
Christ
himself,
John
xi.
25,
26.
What an unreasonable thing
is
it
then for a
christian
to
fear what
men
or
devils
can
do
against
him,
for they
cannot
hurt
his
best
life
!
It
is
above the reach
of
all
the
assaults
of
earth
or
hell.
Our
Lord
Jesus
teaches
us
not
to be
afraid
of
them
who only
can
kill
the body;
for
the
soul
is
not
in
their
reach;
nor
is
it
possible for them
to
prevent
the body
from
partaking of
its share,
in
the glo-
rious
life
appointed
for
a christian
at
the great rising
-
day.
We
see
here upon
what
firm
grounds the doctrine
of
a
christian's perseverance.is
built;
Christ
is
his life,
Je-
sus the
same
yesterday,
to-day,
and
for
ever.
The
all-
sufficient
God,
and
his
eternal
Son,
have
undertaken
for
the
security
of
it; John
x.
28, 29,
36.
I
á
ive
unto
them
eternal
life,
and
they
shall
never perish,
neither
shall
any
pluck
them
out
of
my
hand.
117y
Father
whi'chgave
them
me,
is
greater
than all, and
none
is
able
to
pluck
them
out
of
my
Father's
hand.
I
and
my
Father
are
one.
God hath
sworn
by
his
holiness,
that
the seed
of
Christ
shall
endure for ever
;
Ps.
lxxxix.
35, 36.
and
that
his loving
kindness
shall
not
be
utterly
taken
away
from
his own
children
:
and
our
Lord
Jesus Christ
cloth
little
less
than
swear to the
perseverance
of
his
disciples,
when he
says
;
John
xiv.
19.
Because
I
live,
ye shall
live also
:
for, as
I
live, is
the oath
of
God,
Why
art
thou
cast down, O
believer,
and
why
is
thy
soul disquieted
within
thee
?
Hope
in
God
thy
life,
fog
thou
shalt yet praise
him, how
many and
great
soever
thine
adversaries
-are,
.
and
how difficult
soever
thy path
and
duty may
be,
and
how
loud soever
thy
foes
threaten
thy
destruction.
There
may
be
many things
in
thy
tra-
vels
through
this world,
that
may
hurt
or
hinder the
growth
of
thy
spiritual
life,
and may
for a
season
inter
-
pose, as
it
were, between
thee
-and thy
God;
but
neither
life,
nor death,
nor principalities, nor
powers,
nor
things
present,
nor
things
to come, shall
ever
separate thee
'en-