. Foure godly and learned treatises ... Elegant and lively defcripticn^of Spiritual! De at Hand Life* Iohn 5,25, Verily fuerily, J fay untoyoujhat the houre is camming and now is, when the dead Jhattbeare theVoyce of the Sonne of God, and thy that hear efl? all live. HE Oceafion of thefewords was this:.when asChrift bad affirmed to theIewes^ that God was his Fa-ther > and the levoes went a-fottt to kilkimfir //, proves what he hadfaid by this argument: He that is able to givelife ta the dead is God, or the Sonne of God;But I am able to give life to the dcad^ (The•hofire is cemming
. Foure godly and learned treatises ... Elegant and lively defcripticn^of Spiritual! De at Hand Life* Iohn 5,25, Verily fuerily, J fay untoyoujhat the houre is camming and now is, when the dead Jhattbeare theVoyce of the Sonne of God, and thy that hear efl? all live. HE Oceafion of thefewords was this:.when asChrift bad affirmed to theIewes^ that God was his Fa-ther > and the levoes went a-fottt to kilkimfir //, proves what he hadfaid by this argument: He that is able to givelife ta the dead is God, or the Sonne of God;But I am able to give life to the dcad^ (The•hofire is cemming and novo is^ when the dead fhaliweare the v&yce of the Sonne of God, andihofethat heare it fjall/ive^J Therefore I am theSonne of God. In briefe. thefe words fiiewrifts Divinity by the effects of it.,, that hecan quicken the dead. In. Si-lt jfn Elegant and lively Defcriptm, 2. 3- In thefe words we may confider chefe , the fttbje& on whkh Chrift doth ex-erdfe hisDivinitie; and that is, on dead men*The deddjhaHhedre the wytt 0fthe Strive fhd live. Secondly, the inftrumcut bywhich he doth it,and that is,h hi* fftr^whichis not meant onely the bare preaching andhearing of the Word; but fuch an inward,commanding,powerfui!,operauve word, thatmakes men doe <hat which is commandedthem: Such a word was fpoken to Lazarm be-!ing dead, La^arm cpme forth h and he did his word command* men, and makes themto obey it. Thirdly, the timewheo he will cxercifc hisdivinity $ the hture is commlng^ and mow is \ thatis^the cimciliali come when as it fliall bee a*bundantly revealed, the fruit of the Gofpcllrtiall appeare more plentifully and fully here-after^, but yet it is now beginning to appeare 4there is now fome fmall fruit ont. Laftly,it isaffirmed with an afleveraticnoroath- VerifyVerify I fay untoj
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