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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	aaron_n	beard_n	ointment_n	31	3	10.1070	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45548	The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded and applied the first part in two and twenty lectures on the first chapter, and two verses of the second : delivered in St. Dyonis. Back-Church, An. Dom. 1654 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing H722; ESTC R31526	315,886	434

he gave him sicut promissus sic missus he was not more mercifully promised than faithfully sent It did not seem good to his wisdome to confer this jewel presently but in the mean space that the Church might have somewhat to support her he vouchsafed the promise of it divine promises are as sweet bits to stay our stomachs before the full meal of his actual performances the promise of Christs first coming was that which comforted the Iewes and the promise of his second coming is that which now reviveth the Christian Church and since we have found him making good his word in the one we may assure our selves he will fulfill it in the other since as he was so good as to give a word so he will be so good as his word and give the thing whatsoever it is that he is pleased to promise for so it was in that singular eminent promise of Christ who is therefore not unfitly called the word and so much for that 2. The other substantive yet remaineth to wit life which is in the place of an adjective and may be rendred as an Epithete the living word and look as Christ when he is compared to bread to a stone it is with this addition the bread of life a living stone to difference him from other stones from common bread so he is here called the word of life to distinguish him from and advance him above other words for whereas other words though spoken by living persons yet have no life in themselves this word is the living word personally subsisting or else as he is called the bread of life because he giveth and communicateth life to them that feed on him so here the word of life because he is the author of life to them that receive him but the discussion of this falleth more fitly in in the next part to which therefore I pass on namely The particular exemplification in which Christ is characterized as God-man as God as man as God-man he is stiled the life and the eternal life as God he is said to be the life which was with the Father as man he is the life which was manifested Of each of which with all possible brevity and perspicuity He is called the life that eternal life If you ask in what respect this agreeth to him the answer is already hinted but shall now be more largely prosecuted He is the life and that eternal two wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 formaliter and efficienter in himself in respect of us as being both vivus and vivificus living giving life 1. Christ is the life and that eternal life because in himself he liveth for ever this is true of him primarily as God this being one of his choice attributes that he is the living God inasmuch as divine attributes are better expressed by the abstract than the concrete he is fitly said not onely to be living but life it self and this life is most properly said to be eternal because it is so both a parte ante a parte post from everlasting to everlasting Secondarily this is true of him as Mediator God-man since though there was a time when thus he began to live to wit at his assumption of our nature and likewise his life on earth did expire to wit at his passion yet now he dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him but he is alive for evermore and that to make intercession 2. But that which I conceive most suitable to the Apostles meaning is that Christ is said to be the life because he is the original of life to us in this respect the abstract fitly agreeth to him because life is in him as sap in the root water in the fountain to convey it to all that believe on him in this sense it is that Christ useth it concerning himself as appeareth by his own Commentary I am the life whosoever believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live hence it is that he is called by the Apostle Paul expressely our life nor is he onely life but eternal life that life which as Mediator he vouchsafeth to believers being eternal indeed all creatures are beholding to him for their natural life in him we live move and have our being but the life which believers have by him is an eternal life according as he saith himself I give to them eternal life This is that life which as the learned Davenant observeth 1 Christus promisit Christ promised to his disciples and in them to all Christians where he saith it is my Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdome 2 promeruit by his own death he purchased for all believers in which respect eternal life is said to be the gift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord 3 praeparavit being now ascended into heaven he there maketh ready for us according as he saith himself I go to prepare a place for you and yet more 4 inchoat he begins by the work of grace in the hearts of all the faithful in which respect he that believeth on him is said to have everlasting life and finally 5 reddet he will at the last day consummate by glory Indeed then it is that our bodies being raised our persons shall be glorified and this eternall life actually conferred therfore our blessed Saviour joyneth these two together in that forementioned place I am the resurrection and the life thus as the oyntment ran down from Aarons head to his beard and thence to his skirt so that eternal life which Christ rising from the grave personally enjoyeth shall be communicated to all his members To sum it up Christ God-man Mediator is the life that eternal life in respect of his threefold offices of King Priest and Prophet as Prophet he is the life by way of Revelation discovering this eternal life to us as Priest by way of impetration procuring this eternal life for us as King by way of collation conferring this eternal life on us and as the fulness of water is dispensed by the Sea to the Earth and the fulness of light is communicated by the Sun to the Air and the fulness of Corn was divided by Ioseph among the people so the fulness of grace and glory of life even eternal life is conveyed by Christ to his Church and therefore very justly doth this character belong to him And now what should this consideration teach us But 1. To bewail our sad condition whilest we are without Christ for if Christ be the life all that know him not or believe not in him must needs be in a state of death and damnation It is observable that St. Paul speaking of the Ephesians whilest in the state of unregeneracy saith they were dead in sins and trespasses and a little after renders this as the reason because at that time they were without Christ indeed as