which is senseless in that condition but it is a vigorous judgment sways him to the act and confirms his faculties in working I grant it very difficult at first to believe because of the Enmity of Flesh and the Sophistry of Reason which is Flesh set out in another figure but where Faith gets an entrance there flesh is subdued and reason answer'd the heart comes prepared to embrace Christianity in its hardest terms For this is a Principle that humbles and lays us low and discovers our weakness to our selves It forces us to confess that God has depths of his own we cannot fathom and since we allow our assent to Mysteries in Nature no less ought we to do so to Mysteries in Religion though not to be explain'd by our narrow understanding This was the Apostles case who learnt to submit to the Doctrine that was preach'd and deriv'd from that submission a courage to adhere Let us consider next 2. The Authority of Truth notwithstanding the Opposition of the World God never left himself without witness in the midst of the greatest Apostacies He had Noah to be his Champion in the Old World Elijah in Israel and Apostles in the Infancy of the Christian Church that kept up Religion from perishing Truth and Light have this property common to them both that as they are apt to be clouded so they have vertue to break through those Mists that interpose There is a natural Soveraignty in them both and they seem to be born to an Universal Inheritance though they may be as Strangers and Exiles in some lands yet in others they take the Possession We all know the force of a good title how it prevails If a Prince of undoubted right be cast off by the vile treachery of his own Subjects yet his Title will still rule powerfully possessing the peoples hearts and as strongly warring in the conscience of an Usurper The like command has the Cause of Truth amongst Men and a surer too for a People may be scourg'd by a total loss of their Prince but Gods Faithfulness is ingag'd to maintain the Dominion of the other He that created and established all things by the word of his power has spoken this that Truth shall for ever endure and in order to accomplish what He has spoken he employs his Spirit to work gives us natures inquisitive and reflecting whereby we are stirred up to the duties of Piety so that as long as the Spirit abides which is eternal as long as Reason and Conscience last which are essential to our frame the Characters of Religion must for ever remain Whether it be of the Essence of Gods Church to be always visible I shall not discuss but the foundation upon which it is built can certainly never fail since He is God that is laid there For other Foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ Should we now on the other side consider the growth of Error and the fair show it makes in the world we cannot conclude hence that it has strength to continue For strength presupposes a real existence in the Subject whereas Error is of it self a meer nothing and ows to Ignorance that it appears It is a Ghost that walks in the dark whose body is fram'd by our fancies and when day comes it vanishes with them But to Truth a being pertains and it constantly strives to open its way into Light to reveal that Being to others which when effected it gloriously spreads and enlarges its Empire with that discovery Before I pass to the second Head of my Discourse I shall briefly dispatch one Quere which is this Why Simon Peter that singly spoke here should so readily proclaim his own Faith and undertake likewise for the Faith of the Apostles though a Judas was of their number Now the reason of this I can only resolve into those Two Graces wherein he excell'd Zeal and Charity The one made him forward in a publick Confession of himself the other in a Defence of his Brethren Zeal is a fire that will be sure to get uppermost whence our Apostle being heated with it comes out first for his Lord but then lest the ambition of that act should urge him to pursue his own Glory he religiously suppresses it by his Charity to others It is the nature of Charity to be kind and free from envy not to seek her own but anothers praise It treats all persons alike except some visible fruits do distinguish them and brings a Garment along with it of an equal breadth to hide every right Professor in a word it is a generous Vertue enobling our works of piety and making us beneficial to the world This was the temper of our blessed Apostle whom many are prone enough to imitate for his Zeal but if this latter Grace be wanting they ought to suspect the birth of that flame since the true Gospel-fire that comes down from Heaven has a comforting warmth in it that heals and tends not to kill but to save I come now to my Second Head where we have 2. The reason of their choice drawn from the singular Excellency of Christs Teaching Thou hast the words of Eternal Life It might be expected that poor Fishermen as these were should have had Souls as low as their Trade that they should be far from conceiving and farther yet from pursuing a state of eternity whose great end and business before was but the small gain of a draught neither knew they how to prize any greater wealth than what a Lake or a Brook contains But see how Religion exalts them what high thoughts are now form'd and what vast desires are rais'd in them by the force of their Masters Discipline so that they begin to despise a present Good and breath after nothing but a future Reward Temporal Dominion was below their aim for who can imagine they should propound to themselves an Earthly Monarchy that stuck only to Christ for an Invisible Crown Truly the manner of his appearance in this our Flesh and the nature of his Doctrine taught them no other His appearance was so mean that it was but the form of a Servant which He assum'd Agen his Doctrine was so spiritual that He challeng'd only a Kingdom distinct from the World Joh. 17.36 Luke 9.2 and sent only his Disciples upon that Errand to preach it But the Pretended Successors of St. Peter who here follows his Lord for his Heavenly Ministry can arrogantly pursue a worldly claim as if Earth were in their Charter as well as Heaven and therefore they ought to take both by violence pull down Kings and Princes and advance themselves to an arbitrary Greatness Whose Apostles I pray are they that would thus rule or by what right of donation do the Kingdoms of the world belong to them For we do not read they were any of those Gifts Christ gave unto men but onely the Devils offer 4 Mat. 8. which He rejected I
thus punish the Offender all his other Judgments would not bridle us nor could there be a sufficient Evidence of his wrath did it only light on the party but not stay nor abide on him Then Justice appears to be his when it is not common with man's but man can temporally punish and be mocked to by the Sufferer since that Death he inflicts as his highest punishment is but an end and escape from it Wee all foolishly burn in our wrath and the fires we prepare for othes carry a vain heart in them they scorch and heal together they dissolve the body to ashes and cool it by doing so but when Eternal Wrath seizes on us when Everlasting Burnings break forth this is to give the substance of pain and no shadows In this way God rewards mens evil deads and by the terror of it keeps his infinite mercy from being abused which is an Attribute that wicked men naturally stick to and as hardly quit their hold of it in pursuit of their wickedness were they not shaken off by another notion of Infinite Justice I proceed to my second Query II. Why the Revelation of Divine Wrath is peculiarly ascribed to the Gospel This is intimated in my Text For the wrath of God sayes the Apostle is revealed srom Heaven that is immediately by the God of it who descended upon earth to teach the world and in an heavenly manner confirmed what He taught sealing by his Works the Truths He delivered In handling this point I shall premise two things which are here necessarily imply'd 1. That the eternal punishment of evil doers was a Truth decreed by God before it was revealed for Revelation gives no Essence to things but only an Appearance to us it is not a creating but a discovering work not a saying let it be but let it be with full Evidence He that opens the earth and produces those stores it shuts up does not thereby cause them to exist but to be known so when Gods wrath is said here to be manifested it imports this That it was first prepared His decree was past from all eternity against sin having determined with himself to create Man and govern him by Law determin'd likewise a Punishment answerable to the Majesty of the Lawgiver from whose infinity Mans guilt should swell up so as to deserve infinite Wages The Wrath then of God was sure before-hand only the benefit we have by his revealing it is the applying of that Truth to us whereby we are warned to seek out and provide a remedy of the Judgment 2. The second thing I shall premise is That till the Gospel came the nature of Gods Vindictive Justice was much hid and concealed It is true the Gentiles had a Light from Heaven which was the Light of Nature the Candle of the Lord and the Jews a more special one which was the Light of the Law to direct them yet neither of them contained a like evidence of this Truth which the Gospel affords us 1. For the Light of Nature the Gentiles were led by I confess they had unalterably this dictate from it that Wrath was the due pay of Offenders and because men liv'd not up to the Principles of their Creation they were therefore justly lyable to the Curse but how far that Judgment should certainly extend herein the Light fail'd to guide them Reason it self taught them to conclude the Wicked deserv'd punishment but the Reason did not suffice to confirm that punishment in another World for how Man could eternally subsist in a course of misery they understood not nor what consistency there was of an immortal being with perpetual Torments 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the Speech of one of their chief Philosophers as if to Suffer and to be Mortal were one and the same thing I need not mention the grosness of their mistakes about the Nature of him they worshipped which is palpable to all from that Idolatry they invented but their Error also is alike notorious as to those Motives they fail'd in for urging Religion upon men For when they denied the Resurrection of the Body as Impossible they must consequently deny an Eternal Reward that was built on it What we read in the Acts to be the profest Mockery of the Epicureans and Stoicks when St. Paul preached to them upon this Theme was indeed the sport of all the rest who scoff'd at any thing above Nature and minding only the constant course of its operations made accordingly their Estimate of Gods Power But perhaps they deliver'd somewhat concerning the Life of the Soul but then they did it very uncertainly as Socrates in his Apology for himself before his Judges sufficiently witnesses and if any of them were so positive as to affirm it yet they made that state after death so Aery and so Romantick that neither the Just man could be refresh'd nor the Wicked frighted with that opinion Go to their Stories of the Dark Regions below and the Fiery Lake the Bad should be cast into the Stone the Wheel and the Vulture that was appointed them these were the reports of their Poets fit Priests for such Worshippers Little did they work upon mens Faiths to believe them who with their fabulous mixtures corrupting Truth hindred thereby the conviction of their Hearers Hence their great ones were not mov'd with what was related to them and the Vulgar did but consider them as Tragedies upon a Stage where Fears perhaps were rais'd in them from the Apprehension of an Evil and again easily cur'd with the conceit of a Fiction In a word whatever Religion they had concerning another life it was made by Fancy a wild Speculation and had no check upon conscience to bind practice so that to them the Wrath of God here in my Text prov'd still a Doctrine unknown 2. Let us examine the Doctrin of the Jews and that Light of Special Revelation which they enjoyed It must be granted by all Christians that the Jews had their Covenant established upon promises and threatnings of an Eternal Condition God who chose them out of all Nations to be his People and govern'd their State peculiarly by his Laws did by this too distinguish them from the rest of the World that they had their Religion advanced by those Prophets He sent amongst them whence we find it vindicated by Christ in a Dispute by Paul in a Defence by Abraham in a Parable Christs proves from thence his Doctrine of the Resurrection Paul his hope of the Promise and Abraham the different state both of good and bad which one would think were enough to stop the mouths of our Modern Saducees when the Old were put to silence And indeed whoever shall assert that the Jews had no such benefit of Revelation he must at once charge their Lawgiver with weakness and their own Faith with absurdity in cleaving to him Yet however this Law of the Jews if compared with the Christian in the manner of its evidence came not up
the face of it being spoil'd in the Storm On the other side the calm and lustre of outward good this is generally the wicked mans share we may call it Punishment thus to flourish but it is a Punishment desired Now to break up the Pit and shew those Treasures of vengeance shut up there to search into a wicked mans Fate and discover the Miseries that follow it to represent him naked in his Grave and awak'd afterwards in that nakedness for scourging this is properly to reveal Wrath and to the Gospel we must owe such a Discovery Thus much for my Second Particular There remains the Third to discuss which is this III. How justly it is exercised upon those who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness In discussing this Head I shall first open the Charge and then it will be easie to prove the justness of the Sentence The Charge laid against the Sinner is not error of mind nor weakness of passion nor decay of nature which are Guilt attended with an Apology but the tyranny of a corrupt heart That hating the Empire of Truth takes it prisoner to be freed from its Government for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies namely forcibly to withhold or detain Truth that is to obstruct the power of Religion What a high piece of injustice this is will be evidenc'd if you regard 1. The Act in it self 2. The Motives that lead men to it 3. The Effects that flow from it 1. As to the Act it is no less than the seizure of a Soveraign Prince for such Truth is and therefore justly demands to have Jurisdiction in the soul and like Light to spread in its full liberty What have Subjects to do with fettering Princes whom they are bound to obey or keeping them in the dark when they ought to be visible in the Throne Kings are only at Babylon led captive There they have their eyes put out and their feet bound that they can neither see nor walk abroad So the Christian Law that ought to rule in the World is at Rome barbarously used a place eminent for kindling of Lamps and for smothering of Light for adorning of Altars and for corrupting the Sacrifice What I beseech you is all their Worship but blind and lame Truth being so ill rack'd with their handling that they can only acquaint us with the deformities of its body The Prison it suffers in is that of One Language hardly revealed to the Priests themselves the Eyes it has are those Figur'd ones of an Idoll that need the gildings of Art to be own'd the Feet are the supports of a Tradition which requires an Implicit Faith that is Faith of the same lameness Who that sees Truth in this shape will not say it is vilify'd by its professors when the bare withholding it from others is a high Act of Injustice For that Act is a withholding of the Birth-right and Inheritance of Men and a frustrating of Gods purpose in the gift of it who as he has design'd the Elements of Nature to be commonly enjoyed for our Bodily sustentation so he has also design'd the Elements of Truth to be with a like commonness imparted for preserving the Soul Yet these kind of men that lead Scripture captive dare plead the Infallibility of their own Church a word wherein the Mystery of Iniquity is sum'd up and from whence they have fetcht all their Artillery to beat down every thing that opposed them which puts me in mind of that famous Engine Demetrius contriv'd and is mentioned by Plutarch in his Life that had several Rooms and Partitions in it to hold Souldiers and the men that lodg'd there did fight with all sorts of weapons Such is their Engine of an Infallible Guide but certainly of it self it would little prevail were it not for its many Cells and the Forces that fill them For behold what Bands of Friers what Companies of Priests lie there arm'd and prepar'd to defend their Cause This word Infallible has strength enough with them to solve all Arguments for Truth to remove all objections against Error and withall it so blinds their whole party that they can neither discern any compounded mixtures in Faith nor notorious scandals in practice though the one proceeds from all the grossness of Humane Invention and the other from all the licentiousness of Corrupt Nature But the falseness of that Title they pretend to is sufficiently laid open in the world and they themselves too might be convinc'd of the arrogance of their claim since what-ever promise they may plead for such an assistance concerns only the leading of the Universal Church and is limited too in its sense to points necessary for its salvation whereas they being only a part of that Body and a part wretchedly fallen in Christian Principles cannot truly be said to be upheld by the Spirit but rather Judicially forsaken by reason of their banishing the Word of Truth which can only secure the Spirits Conduct But I pass from hence to the Second Aggravation of this sin wherein I shall consider 2. The Motives that lead men to it Could men urge some powerful Temptation for the reason they had to hinder the Authority of Religion over them they might fetch an excuse from it but when a base lust a sordid appetite shall get strength to prevail this heightens the Crime because of the shamefulness of that Conquest In all Irreligion we are poorly master'd or rather betray'd The Will quits its allegiance to the Understanding which by nature it is a servant to for a mean narrow shrunken object that cannot so much as bribe it by a Reward Atheism is built upon gross dictates of Sense and Lust forms to its self principles to resist Conscience wherein Man pretending to live free is left miserably bound by his Slave Consult the whole Method of an Atheistical discourse In Flesh it begins and ends with it but take once out of Mans mind carnal Hopes and sensual Imaginations then the Soul comes to do it self right by being filled with proper Ideas of God and Eternity Devotion is the genuine birth of our Thoughts while the streams of them are pure but Impiety is a Monster that out of mud and stime is formed We may know its Original by its Fruits and the debauchery of an Atheist's reason by his practice whose love of Drink Whoredom Gluttony and other foul Uncleannesses furnishes him with Arguments to defend them Upon the same score the Heathens maintain'd their Idol-Temples because their inclinations led them to vice and the Gods of those Temples showed them the way The like Reason may be given for that exact care and diligence in the Roman-Church to suppress Truth which is Lust and Interest These are the Two commanding Principles they are sway'd by and Unrighteousness is serv'd by them for low wages They hide the true doctrine of a present Repentance that their followers may sin all their life-time without fear and at last
expecting a reward so that to deny him our hearts is to joyn Sacrilege and folly together when we rob God and impoverish our selves We are all covetous of Life and of Life too in its best estate For though sin has corrupted mens choice of the way yet it has not blasted their desires of the end But our Lord has farther provided those desires should not be frustrated if we follow his rule and strictly adhere to his Commands in mortifying our affections and lusts and as it were spirituallizing the whole man to be thereby fitted for his Kingdom It is from us he expects this work should be performed and not from age Age may indeed prove the mortifier of a Lust but withall it kills the service Little is the glory of overcoming the Tempter when he does not assault us but to break fleshly motions in all their strength this is a true Conquest Neither should it be thought strange for any Disciple to deny thus self in Christianity for Heaven being the object of that work will easily destroy the Miracle of doing it How can any of us contemplate the happiness above and yet not be willing to forsake his proper sins sins how colour'd soever yet in the midst of their Varnish deform'd Where is true beauty but that of Life which only in the Counterfeit we admire where is true wealth but that of Immortality which only in the Glitter we esteem since then such a fair and substantial Treasure is there offer'd us we ought like wise-men to determine our choice and forsaking the vanities of other objects become fixt and settled in our endeavours that we may obtain and compass that Good which yields so bright so weighty so glorious a recompence to the Pursuer The Fourth Discourse Rom. 8.34 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again THe Justification of a Sinner and the way God has prescribed to save men by is so mistaken in the world that no Point has begot more disputes nor is there any Theme wherein Scripture has more suffer'd Yet this quarrel amongst men cannot be charg'd upon any want of evidence in this particular but either an humour of pride to contradict or the interest of a Party to pursue or the prejudice of Opinion to defend have been the main cause of that contention Would we come with a sincere mind to the reading of the Word especially the Writings of this Apostle we should find the difficulty of that Truth clear'd and the glorious effects of Christs Mediatorship laid open upon which our Justifying does depend Now for the better handling this Text which I have here chosen to discuss I shall a little explain the verse before it by reason of their necessary connexion together In which verse we may observe 1. The Triumphant Challenge he makes summoning any Adversary to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who will charge or accuse 2. The Ground of his confidence how little that Accusation would avail because of the mercy of the Judge that acquits the offendor It is God that justifies 3. The limitation of the Charge in respect of the party against whom it is drawn and the limitation of the act of Justifying Grace in respect of the party to whom it belongs Who will lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifies that is those Elect where by Gods Elect he means the same that are spoken of in the first verse of the Chapter namely such as are in Christ Jesus that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit that is who perform all the conditions required in the New Covenant For these alone are the chosen of God whom He has decreed to reward with Eternal Life But because the grace of Justification does necessarily suppose a work of Satisfaction since the goodness of God could have no place for justifying a sinner were not the way first made by attoning his Justice he therefore proceeds in my Text to clear that point and show whence Pardoning Mercy springs namely from Christs undertaking our Cause and reconciling us to his Father by the vertue of his Mediatorship Acts 4.11 12. He indeed is the Stone upon which all our salvation is built so that without him there neither is nor can be given either Pardon of sin here or Glory hereafter Hence the Apostle with regard to his satisfaction does further urge and more strongly confirm what he laid down in the former verse Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again The words contain in them a True Believers full discharge and the Reason or Ground of it The fulness of the discharge is held forth in that Question Who is he that condemneth The reason of it is exprest in that double work of our Redeemer but one of them more dignified than the other It is Christ that died yea rather is risen again The sense of the whole may be resolv'd into these Three Propositions 1. That there is a Proper and Peculiar Vertue to be ascribed to Christs Death in the act of redeeming us 2. That there are Proper and Peculiar Advantages in Christs Rising above that Death 3. That Christs Death in particular but more eminently his Rising has procur'd the Saints freedom from Condemnation 1. That there is a Proper and Peculiar Vertue to be ascribed to Christs Death in the act of Redeeming us In the handling of it I shall premise some Truths First I take for granted what Scripture so clearly reveals that the breach of a Positive Law which was given to Adam in Paradise did not onely involve him but his Posterity too in the Curse there threatned so that the propagation of Mankind from him was but the propagation of persons condemn'd all of us being lyable thereby to Death Temporal and Eternal Secondly though God considered in his Absolute Power could forgive Man the sin he had committed yet considered in the Decree he had made of punishing his Sin and as a Governour bound to maintain it so he was hindred from the exercise of that power Thirdly No creature could possibly reverse that Decree nor expiate the violation of this Governours Authority for want of a Satisfaction which He demanded For where was the Creature that could give it Angels withdraw from the brightness of Gods Glory how then would they flee from the Fire of his wrath Man cannot bear the punishment due to one of his own how then would he sustain the sins of a World Had either of them been deputed to this Task they had sunk under it poor Mankind had been lost and God still unreconcil'd For to the work of Satisfying him Srength as well as Innocence is required but the Creature at best is too weak to intercede the price of its suffering too mean the merit of which cannot extend to another and so Divine Justice instead of accepting would quite devour the Sacrifice Therefore
Wilderness whence he never return'd but Christ that bore the sins of the World and entred the Wilderness not inhabited the Grave came out thence to bring us the news of his Expiation and so made us certain of the benesit It was not enough with him to work our Redemption except we were further enlightned to know it Thus He doubled the mercy of that act when we whose state He recover'd by dying had our Fears too heal'd by his Resurrection 2. It is an efficient cause of our rising with an identity of Body as He rose for we fall not in respect of our Souls but our Bodies if therefore the same Body does not rise the notion of a Resurrection is destroyed This power and right He has to raise us is part of that Dominion he receiv'd when He rose whereby He became Lord of the Dead as well as the Living Rom. 14.9 and He gave a pregnant instance of it at his rising when He caus'd the Stone to be remov'd not onely from his own but from others Sepulchers for He had many Bodies of Saints with him They had long before slept in the dust and perhaps were so far from being dry bones that the question might be put Can this dust live yet were they quickly fashioned in the earth and built up by vertue of their Masters breath to attend him in his Triumph If our rising be later than theirs yet it is as sure for in him says the Apostle shall all be made alive He is become the First-fruits of them that slept Now the First-fruits do not so go before other Fruits but that they are in being though not brought to the same maturity so though the Resurrection of the Dead be not ripe yet it really is begun because Christ is risen Whatever alterations befall us in death they are but changes of Figure no particle of us is lost the very least mite of our Frame is put into the Treasury whence it will be one day taken out and restored An excellent privilege Christs Members enjoy to be thus quickned by their Head otherwise the benefit of their reconciliation were small had he not proved their Life as well as their Sacrifice It is a poor stopping of the Plague to enter the Gulfe and not keep it by that Entrance from swallowing but to open it that it shall yield up its dead and no longer devour them here is a rich Atonement All our hopes depend upon the success of such an Undertaking which we have confirmed to us by the rising of our Lord who has abolisht Death broken the tyranny of that Oppressor and made it a Servant to convey us to Glory But this is all upon supposition that we are qualified for his Members then we are raised by a Power inherent in us whence we receive the influence of salvation if we are no part of his Body we shall however be raised but by a power without us the power of a Judge that will sit over us as Slaves and pronounce the Sentence of Execution Therefore the carnal liver can take no pleasure in this word Rise 't is like a Rack to stretch his limbs on and represents to him all his parts new set that they may be fitted for torment All his joys are plac'd in a life here which is the Senses Portion but the life of another world cuts him in reflecting on it as a Curse that is attended with pain Would we then make it our interest to rise let us live like Children of the Resurrection purge out all corrupt humours of Flesh and Blood mortifie our lusts keep our Souls pure and our Bodies clean that when they are quickned they may be raised to those Heavenly Mansions where the Honours of the Place the delights of Vision and the cloathing of Immortality will satisfy our utmost desires and show us the vanity of this Worlds good that holds us 3. It has procur'd the Assistance of Gods Spirit whereby we are sanctified and enabled to obtain the Promises of Eternal Life Had not Christ rose the Comforter had not been sent indeed the promise of the Holy Ghost was made before but it was shed upon none till after his Rising Then we read of his breathing upon the Apostles Joh. 20.22 which showed the Authority He had to bestow it and the Gifts that should afterwards follow upon his Ascension How necessary the coming of the Spirit was and consequently how great the Advantage of his Rising will appear in this That thereupon Ministers were impowred Wonders wrought a Church gathered and the Word made so powerfull in the hearts of the hearers that they were not able to resist the Doctrine of the Resurrection whereof the Apostles were ordain'd to be Witnesses See this exemplified in St. Acts 1.22 Peters first Sermon on that Subject which the Spirit accompanied with such efficacy that those who heard it were pricked to the heart and the same day there were added to them about three thousand Souls Where by the way the Temper of these new Converts is remarkable for it is said They continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and and in breaking of Bread and in Prayers They were no lovers of Novelty or Schism but close adherers to the Truth and united together in Worship A rich Draught this which Peter had figur'd out to him in a former one when he drew the Net to land full of great fishes and for all there were so many yet was not the Net broken By the same Spirit Christ still rules in his Church in order to mens Conversion whose work is to enlighten and convince us by the Word to prevent us by his Grace in all our doings to encline our wills and further them in good without which assistance we could never by any natural strength of our own either rightly believe or repent and so be made capable of the Promises I have here given a short view of the Benefits of Christs rising which if we compare with the Vertue of his Death we shall find good reason for that Emphasis in the Apostle Yea rather is risen again What are the proper effects of each I have already mention'd How his Death in particular contributes but more eminently his Rising to the Saints freedom from Condemnation may be easily collected from what I have said so that I need not handle my Third Particular therefore I shall now onely in a few words apply this Truth to our selves Gods Justifying Grace we read in the former verse is restrained to his Elect or which is all one his peculiar people that are zealous of Good-works the Benefits of Christs dying and rising are restrained likewise to the same persons For He is become the Author of Salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 Others are excluded from that Purchase whence this Point obliges us to a duty of working that as He died to Nature and rose again in the Body so we might dye to Sin
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