A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. 71
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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.
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