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# Title: A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 2; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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TC,OR. C hap. 15. V er. 5)
from the dead Wrhich che ApoCle purlues largelr also in this Chap.
cer; viz. Z0 sive the morid assurance of a Life aster death, and a blessed
Immortalisy to be enjoyed by al irue Believers and Follovers of Christ.
Christ by his Resurrection hach abolisted death, and broneht lise and
immortality to licht, a5 the APoHle (pCakS 2 Tim. I. 1O. OF, a5 thic
Church sngs in ehac divine Anchem, aster hehad overcome thestarp
ness of Death, he opened the kingdom of Heaven to al Believers. The
reasons oF Philolophy that prove the souls immortality, thoueti crm
and demonstratire in themselres, vet ther are (0 thin and subeil c0
vular apprehentions, that cher glide amay chrouphthem, and leave
no such palpable imprections on them, as ean be able suHicientrto
bear up axainst chat heary weieht oE grols infidelier chac continually
sinks domnthe minds oFmen to a distrust oF suct high chings asbe a-
Borethereach oFsense. Neither are these considerations any longer
OF Force than men can actually actend eo che Arensth and coherence
OF the Demonstration; and when thac actual attention (Wrhich is o-
perole and disticulc) istaken or, then ihe Pruth it selF likre a Spectre
Or Apparition suddenly ranistes amay, and men quection wichthem.
selres astermards whecher chere vere any such chinsorno. Suct
chin and eranid chingsare Philolophical Speculations about et. c hiph
Mysteries oF Faith and Religion. But Christ his raisins OF che selC
Tame Body thich maslaid in the Sepulchre, and aftermards appear-
ing in ic osten to his Disciples, sare such evident afturance oF che
Souls immortalitu and Fise aster death, as must necds Prike more
Aronely uxon Vulsarminds, and make more palpable imprections on
ehiem, and be alvays oF more present and ready use chan any Phi
Dolophical Rcalons and Demonstrations.
Andthe Scripture is herein very harmonions and agreable to il
selFboch in the OId and New Festament: For as in che one it makes
etie original of Deachsentrance into the morid co be che sin and Di(
obedience oF the First Adam, Who Was aiDeco ex s, zuinos, of the
carth, carthy; (0 in the octier it actributes the recorerr ol Lite and
Immortalier eo themeritorious Obedience oF the second adam, chat
IaS OKVCCO EE SParS, EnsedVO; the Ford from heaven, heaventy, Wvho
by his Death variquistred and destroyed Death. FOr aS Sampson,
(rho wasa Type ot our Saviour) wrhen he mas Behesed by che Phi-
listines in che Cicy Gaza (Judees 16.) role ux ac miduighe, and puII.
edux che Gates or the Cicy and ehe Posts, and laxire them upon his
Mouiders carried chem up co che top oFche FTiII: in like manner
Christ our Lord, irhen he as environ d and encompass d by Deach.
aCterhehad Beena mhile detain d under the cnstody thereos, he ascen-
ded victoriousr out oFthe Pomer oF the Grare, and carriedthe Cates
OFFTeIl and Death uxon his Shoulders alons rich him eriumphantiy
into Fleaven; he Diohted and dismantled chat migher Carrison whole
WValIs mere stronger than Brals, and Gaces harder chan Adamanc, chge
ic Bould be no longer a Prison with doors and bars co ut up chose
thacbeliere in him, but an open and Frec palsase, and a brond Hiph.
way eo Lise and immorcalier. Ic is the Resurrection and theTife-
(TOtn FX. 25.) and he that believeth in him, thonch he vere dead vet
Dalt he live. FOr he that liverhand mas dead andis alivefor evermore-
even he haththe Keys of Hell and of Death, RCV. 1. 18.