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A77358	The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4447; Thomason E471_2; ESTC R205749; ESTC R24233	115,073	169

live Yes saies he at the 20. ver I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Nevertheless or now I live I live that is a spiritual life There is a Natural life and there is a Spiritual life He does not here speak of the Natural life when he saies Nevertheless I live because he adds yet not I but Christ liveth in me that is Spiritually And when he saies I live he speaks it in the Person of every Believer not in his Own Person but he personates a Believer all along I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live to God I a Believer And I am crucified with Christ I a Believer And Nevertheless I live All along he does personate a Believer and does not speak in his own Person but in the Person of a Believer And he saies here Nevertheless I live He had said before That we are justified by Faith alone and not by the works of the Law and that a Believer was crucified with Christ Now saies he This Doctrine that I have preach'd unto you is no way opposit unto our Spiritual life or unto our Holiness yet now I live or nevertheless I live From whence then you may observe these Two things First That every true Believer every Godly Gracious man is a living man lives aspiritual life is in the state of life Secondly That our justification by faith alone and our being crucified with Christ is no enemy but a friend unto this Spiritual life Nevertheless I live Doct. 1 First of all Every Godly Gracious man is a living man is in the state of life lives a Spiritual life And this ye have most expresly in that 6. Chap. of John at the 40. vers This is the will of him that sent me That every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day But though he shall have everlasting life hereafter it may be he hath not this life for the present Look therfore what he saies at the 47. vers Verily verily I say unto you He that beleeveth on me hath everlasting life 'T is not said He shall have everlasting life but he hath everlasting life everlasting life is begun in him already And that ye may be the more sure of it he gives you a double Verily Verily verily I say unto ye He that believeth on me hath everlasting life But how can this be Nay how should it be otherwise for a mans life is as his meat is and saies our Saviour I am the bread of life at the 48. vers Then at the 54. vers Whesoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life For my flesh at the 55. vers is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father so he that eateth me even he shall live by me So that ye see this Chapter is ful of it here is a cloud of winesses I say therfore That every godly gracious man is a living man and lives another life from the life of the world a spiritual life and is in the state of spiritual life For the opening of this Truth unto ye We must first of all enquire What this Spiritual life is Take therefore this description of it It is that supernatural perfection of soul whereby a man being united unto Christ by the Spirit is able to act move and work towards God as his utmost end First I say It is a supernatural perfection There is some perfection in every life Life is the greatest good and perfection Death is the greatest evil Therefore when the Lord theratned Adam to punish him for eating the forbidden-fruit he saies The day thou eatest thereof Gen. 2. thou shalt die the DEATH Death is the greatest evil and so Life is the greatest good and perfection And this the Devil knew full well Joh 2.4 when he said Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life So that life is a perfection But I say this Spiritual life It is the Supernatural perfection of the soul And therefore in the 4. chapter of the Ephesians and the 18 verse This life of the Saints the very life of the Saints is called The life of God 'T is a supernatural perfection of soul therefore Secondly As it is a supernatural perfection of Soul So it rises from our Vnion with Christ by the Spirit A man is united to God by faith and by the Spirit and as our outward life does arise from the union between the soul and the body and though the body be never so fair or full yet if it be not united to the soul it is but a dead carkass So our Spiritual life it doth arise from our union with Christ and though a man have never so many moral virtues and his conversation be never so fair yet if not united to Christ by the Spirit he is but a dead man spiritually a dead man And therefore saies the Apostle here in the Text Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Thirdly As it arises from our union with Christ by the Spirit So I say It is that Supernatural I perfection whereby a man is able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost and last end And therefore saies the Apostle in the former verse I through the Law am dead unto the Law that I may live to God To God as my last and my utmost end And when a man is able to act and move and work towards God as his last and utmost end then he is said to live spiritually So that then ye have this description of our spiritual life I repeat it again It is that supernaturall perfection of soul whereby a man being united unto Christ by the Spirit is able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost end Quest 2 Secondly Whereby may it appear That every godly gracious man is thus a living man made partaker of this spiritual life so as to he able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost end Answ I will take but the Three ordinary lives that are in the world The vegetative life the life of Plants and Herbs The Sensitive life the life of Beasts And the Rational life the life of Man And I wil shew ye That the Essential properties of all these lives are in a Spiritual way in the godly and then the Argument will lie thus If the Essential properties of all these lives be in a spiritual way in every godly man then certainly every godly gracious man is a living man and in the state of life living another life from the life of the world First Take the life of plants and herbs or of flowers and what is the Essential property of

not the Painted child but I am the Living child of God and made partaker of this Spiritual life What is my Duty now that does flow from hence Answ Surely you will be thankful for your life If your outward and momentary life were given you for a prey you would be thankful and will ye not be thankful for this life this Spiritual life this Pleasant life this Eternal life that never shall be taken from you But there are Three things I wil propound to you in particular Duty 1 First If we be alive indeed made partakers of this Spiritual life Why then should we not live at an higher rate than the world does which have none of this life The Beast lives at an higher rate than the Plant or the Herb does why because it hath an higher life than the Plant or Herb hath Man as man lives at an higher rate than the Beast does why because man as man hath an higher life than the Beast hath And if a man have this Spiritual life he hath a life that is higher than the men of the worlds life is and therefore if we be alive and made partaker of this Spiritual life why should we not live at a higher rate why should I not say to my own soul thus and speak it often O my soul Wherein doest thou live at a higher rate than Civil men do thou hast a higher life thou saiest why doest thou not then live at a higher rate Duty 2 Secondly If we be alive indeed and made partakers of this Spiritual life Why should our hearts run after the things of the world so as to feed on them as our meat to be satisfied with them Every life lives upon some meat that maintains it and is sutable to it The Herb hath one kind of life and it hath a meat which sutes to it The Beasts have another life and they have a meat that does sute to that life Man hath another life different from the Beast and therefore he hath a meat that does suit to his life Now this Spiritual life 't is another kind of life than the natural life of man is and therefore it must have a meat that does sute with it meat that the world knows not of Saies our Savior John 4.32 I have meat to eat that you know not of This life of grace it is a hidden life and therefore the meat thereof that it lives upon 't is an hidden meat Then if you are alive indeed and have this Spiritual life why do you live upon these outward things and why should our hearts run out after these outward things so as to live upon them and make them as it were our meat for the satisfaction of our souls to live upon Duty 3 Thirdly If we be alive indeed and made partakers of this Spiritual life Why is our Communion and Fellowship together no more living Why no more living Fellowship and Communion why is our Conference no more warm and living A living coal warms ye know There is this difference between a living coal and a dead coal Take a Dead coal and though it be never so great or small it sullies and blacks more or lesse but it warms not But take your Living coal which hath fire in it and though it be never so great or small it does warm in proportion more or lesse it warms And if we be as Living coals why then is our Conference and Communion together no more warming When ye go into Wicked and Ungodly company there ye meet with dead coals and there ye are sullied and dirtied and black't by them I say If ye indeed be living coals why is your Conference no more warm and living Oh! what sad times are we now fallen into Heretofore some four or six or ten years ago ye should not come into a Christians company but you should have some heart-warming Conference that you should bless God for many yeers after As 't is said of Junius he came into a poor country-mans house and he spake so feelingly of Christ that he thought it was not Knowledge only that would serve a mans turn and thereupon he thought of his own condition and was turned to God And we reade of the Martyrs in the Primitive times when they met together they would speak much of the Kingdom the Kingdom the Kingdom of Heaven in so much as their Accusers their Enemies and Persecutors charged them That they aimed at the Empire and the Kingdom whereas they were speaking of a Heavenly Kingdom and not of an Earthly Kingdom But I say they were alwaies speaking of the Kingdom the Kingdom And so heretofore in former times when Christians did meet together then they would speak of the Kingdom and somthing that would warm their hearts together that they might be the better al the yeer after But now when we are met together either our speech is about Newes or some Dispute in point of Religion or some other thing yea though it be upon the Lords-day But if you be living coals Where is your living Conference and your heart-warming-Communion Certainly if you be alive in Christ indeed and made partaker of this Spiritual life you will live at a higher rate than the men of the world do Quest Is there nothing in all this Doctrine concerning those that are dead in sins and made alive hath this Doctrine nothing to say to them Answ Yes it hath very much to say to them Only I am loth to be the messenger of death to any one of your souls But if this Doctrine be true That every godly man is a living man and in the state of life and none else How many poor dead souls may this Doctrine find in Congregations It 's said that when the Egyptians found their first-born dead in their families there was a great cry thorow Egypt a great cry in every family And were men as sensible of their souls as they are of their bodies Oh! what a great cry might there be in divers of your families One crying out and saying Oh! Lord I have a dead Child whose soul is dead Another Oh! Lord I have a dead Servant in my family Another Oh! Lord I have a dead Wife in my family whose soul is dead Another I have a dead Husband a dead Friend I say were men and women as sensible of their souls as they are of their bodies what crying what a great cry this morning might there be found in this Congregation But I chuse rather to Exhort ye in the Name of the Lord for to get this same Spiritual life that now I have been speaking of above all getting to get this Spiritual life Ye see into what sad times you are fallen Who knows how long he shall live who knowes how long he shall he the owner of his Estate Liberty or Life The Kingdom is ful of blood and there is a blood-thirsty-disposition that runs thorow the Kingdom and if you and I have our lives