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spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	quicken_v	5,491	5	10.4511	5	false

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A13024	The Christians sacrifice much better then all the legall sacrifices of the Iewes; and without the which, all the said legall sacrifices of the Iewes, euen when they were in force, were not acceptable to God. Or, a logicall and theologicall exposition of the two first verses of the twelfth to the Romanes, with all the doctrine in the said two verses, plainly laid forth, and fitly applied according as these times do require the same. Wherein also besides the orthodoxall exposition of the said words, diuers other places of Scripture by the way occurring, before somewhat obscure, are so naturally interpreted, as that the iudicious reader shall thinke his paines well bestowed in vouchsafing to reade this treatise following. With the authors postscript to his children, as it were his last will and testament vnto them.	Stoughton, Thomas.	1622 (1622)	STC 23314; ESTC S100120	224,816	288

according to thy iudgements So also when the Lord by the Prophet saith I dwell with him that is of a contrite spirit to reuiue the spirit of the Isay 57. 15. humble In all these places the words to quicken and reuiue being both one do signifie to make aliue Now neither doth the one or the other Prophet speake of the first life of grace from the sinnes wherein men are dead before regeneration but of the quickning grace whereby men are made more and more nimble cheerfull and liuely in the works of grace For the Psalmist was before partaker of the first worke of grace and the Prophet Isaiah speaking of the humble must needs be vnderstood to speake of such as had before receiued the life of God whereof humilitie is a speciall and a great measure As there are the reliks of all other sinnes in the best of Gods children so are there of that sluggishnesse against which Salomon in Pro. 6. 6. 1. ● 4. 15. 19. 18. 9. 24 30. c. the Prouerbs giueth so many precepts and in respect whereof the most liuely that are in goodnesse haue need to be rouzed vp and to be prouoked to be more liuely and also daily to pray in that behalfe In these dayes especially is this most necessarie wherein the greatest part of men are altogether dead in their trespasses and sinnes and Eph. 1. 4. 18 vtterly void and alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse yet of their hearts and the best in a maner not only of the common people but also of the Ministers of the word and of all other sorts and states of men like to the Angell of the Reu. 3. 1. Church of Sardi haue a name to be aliue and yet are dead not starke dead as the former but sicke and very sicke vnto death needing admonition to awake and to strengthen the things that remaine and are otherwise ready to die As therefore this attribute is here set before the next of being holy so it must go before it No man can be an holy sacrifice except he be first a liuing sacrifice Thus much of alacritie or cheerfulnesse intimated by the word liuing Touching constancie that also is commended by the Mat. 16. 16. chapt 26. 63. Ioh. 6. 67. 2. Cor. 6. 16. same word For as when God is called the liuing God by the Apostles and by the high Priest the meaning is that he liueth for euer and is immutable and vnchangeable and as the Spirit of God which Christ promiseth to all that shall come vnto him and beleeue in him is called by the name of riuers of liuing water that is such as should Ioh. 7. 38. neuer be dried vp as also before that to the woman of Samaria Ioh. 4. 10. by the name of liuing water and is more plainly interpreted to be such that whosoeuer should drinke thereof ver 14. should neuer thirst againe but that that water so giuen by our Sauiour shouldbe a well of water in her springing vp to eternall life So here a liuing sacrifice signifieth such a sacrifice as once hauing life should neuer die Christ indeed our life once died but now he liueth for euermore As therfore Reu. 1. 18. Christ now liueth and neither shall nor can die againe so whosoeuer hath truly giuen himselfe a sacrifice to God so being a member of Christ he must be and cannot but be a liuing sacrifice for euer If any that seeme to be liuing do die he neuer indeed was aliue but seemed onely so to be He that is once truly a liuing sacrifice so will be to the end He can no more lose this his spirituall life then God himselfe or Christ Iesus can die because that his life is the life of God and of Christ Iesus O vnspeakable comfort This life of our sacrifice must not be concealed for feare of any danger whatsoeuer yea it cannot be concealed where it is it will shew it selfe by the effects and workes thereof As our naturall life wil shew it selfe wheresoeuer it is so will this our spirituall life I beleeued therefore I spake It can no more be hidden then fire As fire will Psal 116. 10. 2. Cor. 4. 13. breake forth wheresoeuer it is so will this life yea fire may be quenched but this life cannot be extinguished Though Ieremiah in respect of many discouragements such as the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel in these dayes euery where especially in their owne country meet with Mark 6. 4. Ioh. 4. 44. not onely at the hands of enemies but also at the hands of such as beare a faire face vnto the Gospell though Ieremiah I say by such discouragements had determined to haue suspended himselfe from his ministerie and not to Ier. 20. 9. haue spoken any more in the name of the Lord yet the word of the Lord was in his heart as burning fire shut vp in his bones and he was wearie of forbearing and could no longer stay They that haue this life of God in them haue also the same word whereby that life was wrought as afterward we shall heare and therefore this life cannot be hidden but it will breake forth and shew it selfe That of the Apostle our life is hid with Christ in God is Colo. 3. 3. How our life is said to be hid with Christ in God to be vnderstood in a double respect first of the life to come and of the perfection of this life in the world to come secondly in respect of the world and of all dead in their trespasses and sins that haue no eyes to see this life or any worke thereof in them that haue it Sometimes also they that are thus liuing do not themselues feele this life in themselues but feare they haue it not as being for a time in a spirituall swoune and oppressed either with their sinnes or with many afflictions yea sometimes their eyes are so dazeled with the great prosperitie of the wicked that they thinke their state better then their owne as thinking all to be in vaine that they haue done in cleansing Psal 73. Chap. 33. their heart and washing their hands in innocencie But hereof enough is written in the Dignitie of Gods children By these things hitherto spoken it is manifest that whosoeuer sheweth not this life hath it not at all in him Let no man therefore deceiue himselfe touching this life but seriously examine himselfe by the effects of this life whether he haue it or no. But this shall be more euident by the adiunct holy in the next place because without that holinesse there is no spirituall li●e To adde one word more concerning the former constancie and perpetuitie of this life all that trust in the Lord Psal ●25 1. are like vnto mount Ston that standeth fast for euer and shall neuer be moued And our faith whereby we liue is therefore 1.

Pet. 1. 7. said to be more precious then gold because gold though tried in the fire perisheth Doth not the Apostle thereby manifestly shew that our faith cannot perish else were the argument of the Apostle from the comparison thereof with gold of no force All hitherto spoken of this attribute liuing here giuen to this our sacrifice is to be applied to all before said of our actiue and passiue sacrificing of our selues we must do all we must suffer all with all alacritie and cheerfulnes as also with all constancie and stedfastnesse That which is said of a liberall person that the Lord loueth a cheerfull giuer 2. Cor. 9. 7. is to be vnderstood of the actiue and passiue sacrificing of our selues If we must be cheerfull in giuing vnto men must we not much more be cheerfull in sacrificing our selues to God that in many respects hath right vnto our selues and to all that we haue All the actiue sacrificing of our bodies and of euery member of them as also of our soules and of euery power and facultie of them must be cheerfull So must likewise be all our passiue sacrificing of our selues The more honorable also it is to suffer for Christs sake the more willing and cheerfull should we be to part from all yea to lay downe our liues for his sake And indeed whosoeuer hath truly beleeued that Christ hath so willingly and cheerfully suffered those direful torments for vs that he did he cannot but be willing and cheerfull also to suffer any thing for him Oh that this life were in euery one that pretendeth to sacrifice himselfe to God In things that concerne our selues for this life how liuely how nimble are we but alas in sacrificing our selues to God in doing or suffering any thing for God how drowsie how dead how leaden heeled and handed are we The same may be said of constancie in sacrificing our selues both actiuely and passiuely It is not enough to suffer a little or at once but if we should be called often to suffer for his truth it should not be grieuous vnto vs. Though we should be first reuiled touching our good names then spoiled of all our good then laid vp in prison and there kept with great hardnesse for many yeares then brought out to execution and to haue our flesh torne from our backs by peece-meale as some haue had or be burnt by little and little as William Gardiner Merchant was beyond the seas yet none of all these ought to make any of vs to shrinke One thing more let me yet adde touching this adiunct liuing namely that the more our naturall life decayeth and consumeth in the powers thereof manifested by the trembling of the keepers of our house and by the strong men Eccles. 1● 3. bowing themselues and the ceasing of the grinders and by the darknesse of our windowes all which I feele in my self the more we labour to cherish and to increase this our spirituall and heauenly life in vs that so we may bring forth Psal 92. 14. Reu. 2. 19. fruit in our old age and be fa● and flourishing and like to the Angell of the Church of Thiatyra hauing our last workes more then our first This shall suffice to haue spoken of this first adiunct of our sacrifice namely liuing The second adiunct is holy This is necessarie to be ioyned The second adiunct of our sacrifice holy to the former first to teach vs to distinguish the former from naturall liuing and secondly to teach vs our sacrifice to be liuing in holinesse yea without this holinesse men haue no life of God no spirituall life in them but are altogether dead as before I said not able to stir hand or foote towards heauen as spiritually dead as Lazarus Ioh. 11. 39. was naturally dead in the graue and had bin dead foure dayes till Christ crying aloud vnto him said Lazarus come forth and by that meanes raised him from death vnto life and so by raising other from death to life and by dayly raising vp other from the death of sinne to this life Rom. 1. 4. of holinesse mightily declaring himselfe to be the Son of God for so with reuerend regard notwithstanding of the different iudgement of my betters I vnderstand that place to Mat. 17. 9. 27 64. 28. 7. Mark 6. 9. Ioh. 2. 22. Ephes 1. 20. Ioh. 20. 9. Acts. 3. 15. chapt 4. 10. chapt 10. 41. cha 13. ●0 34 1. Pet. 1. 3. Rom. 4. 24. cap. 6. 4. cap. 7. 4. cap. 8. 11. cap. 10. 7. 9. 1. Cor. 15. 20. Col. 2. 17. 1. Thes 1. 10. Heb. 13 20. 2. Tim. 2. 8. 2. Cor. 7. 1. the Romanes For it seemeth to me that it cannot well be vnderstood of the resurrection of himselfe from the dead because in the Greeke there is no preposition signifying from as is in those places that speake of Christs owne resurrection from the dead of which I haue noted some before in the margin and many more might haue noted Neither do I thinke it very easie for any man to name any place wherein Christs owne resurrection is mentioned without some prepositiō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or to name any where that the genitiue case of the dead there vsed by the Apostle doth signifie from the dead But to returne from whence I haue a little digressed for the interpretation of that place to the Romanes that we may be thusholy as here the Apostle speaketh we must first of all purge our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and of the spirit and then decke our selues with the contrary vertues of sanctification For filthinesse and holinesse cannot any more agree in one subiect then light and darknes and both those branches of our holinesse are elsewhere signified by putting off the old man and putting on the Ephes 4. 22. Col. 3 9. 10. Tit. 2. 12. 1. Pet. 2. 11. 12. Rom. 6. 11. verse 18. Psal 34. 14. 1 Pet 3. 12. Exod. 12. 5. Leuit. 1. 10. 22. 19. 20. 21. new by denying vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and liuing soberly and godly c. by abstaining from all fleshly lusts which fight against our soules and hauing our conuersation honest c. by dying vnto sinne and liuing vnto God and to righteousnes by being made free from sin and seruants vnto righteousnes by eschuing euill and doing good and by other the like Now as the Passe-ouer was to be without blemish especially as the legall sacrifices ought so to haue bin yea also without any other deformitie or maime so the Apostle here requireth this our sacrifice to be holy and without any spirituall blemish or deformitie If the sacrifices of sheepe and lambes in those dayes must be without blemish must not the sacrifice of our selues much more be such Yea this is also necessarie in respect that our selues must not only be the sacrifices but also the Priests to offer this sacrifice For as the