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virtue_n	death_n	know_v	resurrection_n	1,580	5	9.6777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34689	A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; R. D. (Roger Drake), 1608-1669.; Scott, Chr. (Christopher), fl. 1655.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6452; ESTC R5113	587,691	443

Christ liveth in me and the life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God live upon Christ daily fetch all your help and comfort and life from him and for eternall life seeing it is laid up in him let us lay claim to it in his Name and lay up the security of all our life in him that so though it be unsetled yet in him it may be sure 1 JOHN 5.12 He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life THis Verse contains the third record God hath given us of his Son and that is the subject of this eternall life to whom this life is given and that is onely to the true believers He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life Doct. Vpon our having or not having of Christ depends our having or not having life Prov. 8.35 36. He that findeth me findeth life but he that hateth me loveth death Eph. 2.11 12. Without Christ we are aliens from life and strangers from the Covenant Quest Why doth our life depend upon the having of Christ Reas 1. From the insufficiency of all the creature to give life Heb. 10.1 4. For it is impossible that the bloud of Bulls or Goats should take away sin Besides should we die for our sins our selves yet we could not satisfie for our sins because we could never overcome death neither can our obedience to the law give us life Gal. 3.21 23. David speaks it fully in the Name of Christ Psal 22.29 No man can keep his soul alive he cannot keep naturall life much lesse a spirituall yea Adam in innocency was taught to look for the preservation of his life out of himselfe and therefore he was to eat of the tree of life implying that the maintenance of that life he then lived could not have been in himselfe but he must eat of the tree of life a type of Christ How much lesse could Adam fallen keep this life in him Quest Why is the creature insufficient to give life Answ 1. From the preciousnesse of that price which was to be paid for our life the matter of our justification is the price paid for our redemption Psal 49.8 The redemption of souls is precious and it is beyond the power of the creature it was onely the obedience of Christ as suffering to the death that could give a sufficient price for us and none but Christ could doe it because he thereby declared himselfe mightily to be the Son of God 2. For our life of Sanctification and Consolation that proceeds from the Spirit of God within us springing up in us to everlasting life John 16.7 John 4.10 Now its onely Christ that can give us this life it s he that must ascend up to heaven and send down the Comforter it s he that sets open this living Fountain 3. For eternall life that can onely be given by Christ in regard of the difficulty of it above all humane reach no man is able to deliver his soul from the grave Psal 49.7 8. Death is the passage to eternall life now for a man to die and aftewards to raise up himselfe is above created power John 11.25 Reas 2. From the good pleasure of God that hath appointed That in Christ should all fulnesse dwell Col. 1.19 Col. 3.4 All the springs of life flow from him onely there is no deriving of life from any other fountain Vse 1. From hence we may have an evident ground of tryall whereby we may know whether we be alive or dead why if we have the Son we have life if we have not the Son we have not life For the understanding of this we are to consider 1. What it is to have Christ 2. What it is to have the Son 3. Shew some signes of life For the first we are said to have Christ four wayes 1. By way of service 2. By way of purchase 3. By way of Covenant 4. By way of acceptance 1. By way of service or worship a man is said to have God that worships God as some Princes are chosen by the peoples adoration so by our adoring of God we have God Exod. 20.3 Thou shalt have no other Gods but me that is Thou shalt worship no other Gods but me if thou worship me you have me Psal 45.11 12. For he is the Lord thy God and worship thou him we receive Christ to be our Lord by worshipping him This Moses sang at the red Sea Exod. 15.2 3. to exalt and worship God makes him our God the worship of God is performed in our minds in our wills in our live● 1. In our mindes we then have Christ when we have him in high estimation Cant. 5.10 My Beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest of ten thousand who is like unto thee among the gods Psal 8.7 Exod. 15.10 11. when the soul prizeth Christ above all then we have him this is the difference between spirituall and earthly things a man may prize gold and silver and riches and yet not have them but we never prize spirituall things especially Christ but we have them and this is worship for all worship stands in exalting another and debasing my selfe now if I give Christ divine esteem its divine worship now when the soul thus esteems Christ as the highest and debaseth himselfe to the lowest it hath Christ John 1.27 John the Baptist he so advanceth Christ that in comparison of him he thinks himselfe unworthy to loose the lachet of his shoe no mortall man so great but another may be worthy to loose his shoe but Christ is so highly advanced that we are not worthy to doe him the meanest service when a mans heart thus advanceth Christ and thinks himselfe most unworthy of the meanest service about him much more of having Christ himselfe when once we have Christ in such high esteem we have him indeed and this high prizing of Christ may a poor soul have when it can expresse little else and this is an evident argument of our having Christ when we can think the worst thing in Christ honourable and precious this was Moses his faith that he lookt at the very reproaches and afflictions of Christ as greater riches then the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11.25 26. 2. We honour Christ in our minds when we esteem nothing more worthy knowing then Christ 2 Cor. 2.2 For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified John 17.3 and to know Christ is to know the vertue and worth of Christ as Paul knew him Phil. 3.7 8 9. that is to esteem all his best outward priviledges as base and filthy in respect of the knowledge of Christ an evident sign that Paul had him In Nature we never have a thing but we desire to know the worth and use of it Phil. 3.10 so every one that hath Christ desires to know what the power of his death is and the vertue of his Resurrection and