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A77358	The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4447; Thomason E471_2; ESTC R205749; ESTC R24233	115,073	169

live Yes saies he at the 20. ver I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Nevertheless or now I live I live that is a spiritual life There is a Natural life and there is a Spiritual life He does not here speak of the Natural life when he saies Nevertheless I live because he adds yet not I but Christ liveth in me that is Spiritually And when he saies I live he speaks it in the Person of every Believer not in his Own Person but he personates a Believer all along I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live to God I a Believer And I am crucified with Christ I a Believer And Nevertheless I live All along he does personate a Believer and does not speak in his own Person but in the Person of a Believer And he saies here Nevertheless I live He had said before That we are justified by Faith alone and not by the works of the Law and that a Believer was crucified with Christ Now saies he This Doctrine that I have preach'd unto you is no way opposit unto our Spiritual life or unto our Holiness yet now I live or nevertheless I live From whence then you may observe these Two things First That every true Believer every Godly Gracious man is a living man lives aspiritual life is in the state of life Secondly That our justification by faith alone and our being crucified with Christ is no enemy but a friend unto this Spiritual life Nevertheless I live Doct. 1 First of all Every Godly Gracious man is a living man is in the state of life lives a Spiritual life And this ye have most expresly in that 6. Chap. of John at the 40. vers This is the will of him that sent me That every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day But though he shall have everlasting life hereafter it may be he hath not this life for the present Look therfore what he saies at the 47. vers Verily verily I say unto you He that beleeveth on me hath everlasting life 'T is not said He shall have everlasting life but he hath everlasting life everlasting life is begun in him already And that ye may be the more sure of it he gives you a double Verily Verily verily I say unto ye He that believeth on me hath everlasting life But how can this be Nay how should it be otherwise for a mans life is as his meat is and saies our Saviour I am the bread of life at the 48. vers Then at the 54. vers Whesoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life For my flesh at the 55. vers is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father so he that eateth me even he shall live by me So that ye see this Chapter is ful of it here is a cloud of winesses I say therfore That every godly gracious man is a living man and lives another life from the life of the world a spiritual life and is in the state of spiritual life For the opening of this Truth unto ye We must first of all enquire What this Spiritual life is Take therefore this description of it It is that supernatural perfection of soul whereby a man being united unto Christ by the Spirit is able to act move and work towards God as his utmost end First I say It is a supernatural perfection There is some perfection in every life Life is the greatest good and perfection Death is the greatest evil Therefore when the Lord theratned Adam to punish him for eating the forbidden-fruit he saies The day thou eatest thereof Gen. 2. thou shalt die the DEATH Death is the greatest evil and so Life is the greatest good and perfection And this the Devil knew full well Joh 2.4 when he said Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life So that life is a perfection But I say this Spiritual life It is the Supernatural perfection of the soul And therefore in the 4. chapter of the Ephesians and the 18 verse This life of the Saints the very life of the Saints is called The life of God 'T is a supernatural perfection of soul therefore Secondly As it is a supernatural perfection of Soul So it rises from our Vnion with Christ by the Spirit A man is united to God by faith and by the Spirit and as our outward life does arise from the union between the soul and the body and though the body be never so fair or full yet if it be not united to the soul it is but a dead carkass So our Spiritual life it doth arise from our union with Christ and though a man have never so many moral virtues and his conversation be never so fair yet if not united to Christ by the Spirit he is but a dead man spiritually a dead man And therefore saies the Apostle here in the Text Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Thirdly As it arises from our union with Christ by the Spirit So I say It is that Supernatural I perfection whereby a man is able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost and last end And therefore saies the Apostle in the former verse I through the Law am dead unto the Law that I may live to God To God as my last and my utmost end And when a man is able to act and move and work towards God as his last and utmost end then he is said to live spiritually So that then ye have this description of our spiritual life I repeat it again It is that supernaturall perfection of soul whereby a man being united unto Christ by the Spirit is able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost end Quest 2 Secondly Whereby may it appear That every godly gracious man is thus a living man made partaker of this spiritual life so as to he able to act and move and work towards God as his utmost end Answ I will take but the Three ordinary lives that are in the world The vegetative life the life of Plants and Herbs The Sensitive life the life of Beasts And the Rational life the life of Man And I wil shew ye That the Essential properties of all these lives are in a Spiritual way in the godly and then the Argument will lie thus If the Essential properties of all these lives be in a spiritual way in every godly man then certainly every godly gracious man is a living man and in the state of life living another life from the life of the world First Take the life of plants and herbs or of flowers and what is the Essential property of

alone is the living man that hath this Spiritual life that is in this state of life Quest Is all a Civil mans Civility nothing and are all Moral Vertues nothing are all these then good for nothing Answ Yes they are in themselves good and they are good for somthing but they are not good to make a man spiritually alive If a man come and offer you a brass six-pence or a brass shilling and you say No it will not go and if he reply and say to ye But though it be brasse is it good for nothing You will say Yes 't is good for somthing brass is good for somthing but 't is not good for money it will not go for pay it will not pay your debt 't is not sufficient to fetch you out of prison it will not make you alive 't is not good for this So now say I Do ye ask whether these be good for nothing I say Yes they are good all moral vertues are in themselves good but they are not good for to pay your debt they are not good to make you alive they can never make you spiritually alive 't is only grace and union with Jesus Christ by the Spirit that must make a man alive Spiritually alive and this only the Saints and people of God have and therefore they only are the living men every Child of God is a living man and none else Applyca If this be so What abundance of comfort is here unto all the Saints and people of God! He only lives comparatively that lives this spiritual life the Saints and people of God they are alive Doest thou therefore beleeve art thou united to Jesus Christ by the Spirit then thou art alive and in the state of life made partaker of this Spirittual life And doest thou know what it is to be made partaker of this Spiritual life doest thou know what a life it is that now thou livest It is a life better and beyond the life that thou shouldest have lived in the state of innocency for as the second Adam is more excellent than the first Adam was 1 Cor. 15.45 The first man Adam was made a living soul but the second Adam was made a quickning Spirit So that life that comes from Christ the second Adam is better and beyond that life that you should have had from the first Adam in the state of innocency Of all lives this Spiritual life that now I am speaking of is the most Pleasant life In the 36. Psalm saies the Psalmist concerning the godly at the 8. verse They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures Now as Austin doth well observe upon that place The River hath many waves one following upon another so are the pleasures of the Saints the Spiritual pleasures one wave one pleasure following upon another and it is a deep river Oh! but a River may be dry Nay it cannot be dry if it be maintain'd with a Fountain and with Springs Now see what follows at the 9. verse They shall satisfie themselves of the river of thy pleasures Why for with thee is the Fountain of life So that if a man do but enjoy God in Christ and be united unto Christ by the Spirit he hath this life which shall be as a river of pleasures maintained with a Fountain Yea this life it shall know no end Your lives now they run into death but this life this Spiritual life it shall know no end The Apostle argues unto the Romans that they should die no more because they had cōmunion with Christ in his death Rom. 6.10 And therefore saies he In that he died once he shall die no more And so you having communion with Christ in his death you shall die no more once alive spiritually and ye shall die no more Who can go to Heaven and pull Christ out of Heaven In the 2. Chapter of Paul unto the Ephesians the 5. ver saies the Apostle there Even when we were dead in trespasses and sins hath he quickned us together with Christ and he hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Here 's sitting together in heavenly places with Jesus Christ and we are raised up in Christ So then if once ye have this Spiritual life in Christ ye shall never die again Spiritually And this life that now I am speaking of 't is of all other lives the most Communicative life A Man does communicate life unto his Child but his Child is not able presently assoon as 't is born to communicate life unto an other child One Beast does communicate life unto another the Sheep communicates life unto the Lamb but the Lamb assoon as 't is brought forth is not able to communicate life to another and beget another And so the Herb communicates life to another but not presently assoon as 't is an Herb. But now no sooner does a man partake of this Spiritual life but he is presently able to communicate life unto another When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren Luke 22.32 No sooner was Paul made alive by another but he presently goes and communicates this life unto his brethren And let me tell you one thing more Though your sins have been very great while you were in the state of death before you were made partakers of this Spiritual life yet when once ye come to partake of this spiritual life the Lord wil look upon al your former sins under another consideration a mollifying consideration Luke 15.32 This my son was dead saies the father of the Prodigal and is now alive that is all He does not say This was a Whoremonger or this was a Riotter or this was a Spend-thrift and now he is returned and come home to me for meat No but in mollifying terms only thus This my son was dead and is now alive And ye know what is said of David David committed a great sin in the murder of Vriah and yet saies the Lord concerning David He turned not aside to the right hand or to the left 1 King 15.5 save only in the matter of Vriah He does not say Save only in the murder of Vriah but in a mollifying term he saies only so Save only in the matter of Vriah a mollifying term Why because that David had repented of the Sin now the Lord does not look upon it but under this mollifying term Save only in the matter not in the murder of Vriah but in the matter of Vriah And so if thou do repent and turn unto the Lord thy God though thy sins have bin very great in the state of thy death yet if once come to be made partaker of this Spiritual life the Lord will look upon all thy former sins under other terms and mollifying considerations He will not say Here 's this poor wretch that now I do look upon as a

Drunkard or a Swearer but he will say thus This my son was dead but is now alive this my daughter was dead and is now alive Thus the Lord will look upon your former evils if once ye come to be made partaker of this Spiritual life Oh! therefore what a blessed condition are the Saints and people of God in that are made partakers of this same Spiritual life I remember it is written of a certain Martyr in the Primitive times a woman when she was brought before the enemies of the Gospel they put divers questions to her and she answered all their questions with one answer which was this Christiana sum I AM A CHRISTIAN When they said unto her Woman Art thou married or no. I am a Christian saies she What Parents hast thou Woman I am a Christian saies she Woman Where doest thou live I am a Christian saies she She answered all their questions with this I am a Christian And so me thinks a man may answer all objections that are made unto him with this I am alive in Christ But thou hast a dead Estate much of it is lost at Sea or at Land Well but I am alive in Christ But hast thou not a dead Husband or a dead Wife or a dead Child I am alive in Christ But is not thy Name dead and buried under reproaches I am alive in Christ A poor soul may answer all with this I am alive in Christ Oh! what a blessed thing is it for a man to be made partaker of this Spiritual life This is the condition of all the Saints Art thou therefore alive and made partaker of this Spiritual-life blessed art thou from the Lord and thou shalt be blessed to all eternity Object I am affraid that I have not this Spiritual life for my heart is Dead and Cold and Stiffe and dead men they are Cold and Stiffe very Stiffe and truly so 't is with me My heart is Cold and Dead and Stiffe and therfore I fear I am free among the Dead and not free among the Living Answ Have ye not heard That there is a deadness which is opposite to Liveliness aswel as a death that is opposit to Life And were thine heart dead with a death opposite to Life thou couldst not feel it And I appeal to thee If that thy soul be alive in opposition to death hast thou not more cause to be thankful that thy soul is alive in oppofition to death than to be discouraged that thy soul is dead in opposition to Liveliness But there is a differance ye know between the coldness of a Living man and the coldness of a Dead man Take a dead man and if he be cold 't is not al your fires wil put warmth into him or your Aqua-vitae or your chafing and rubbing of him or your warm beds that will make him warm But now take a man that is cold and Living and if ye chafe him or bring him to the fire or lay him in a good warm bed he recovers his warmth again And so 't is with a godly heart though cold yet bring it unto the Ordinance either Publickly or Privatly and it recovers its warmth againe and hath it not been even so with some of you It 's true A Dead man is Stiffe But have you found your selves in a way of sin an evil way and are ye so stiffe therein as ye will not be put out of your way no not by admonition then ye are stiffe indeed There are two men that are out of their way suppose The Traveller and the Thief The Traveller is out of his way and if you come to him and say Sir you are much out of your way He hearkens to ye and he thanks ye and he returns into his way again But if ye come to a Thief and say Sir you are out of your way He laughs and scorns and comes not into the way So there are some indeed that are out of their way and if you do come to them and tell them that they are out of their way they will blesse and praise the Lord for your admonition and labor to return into their way again But some there are that if ye tell them that they are out of their way they will rather scorn and jeer at it What have you to do to meddle with me what have you to do to meddle with my waies meddle with your own matters These men are stiffe they are stiffe indeed why because they are dead they are stiffe in the way of their sin and they wil not be stird out no not by Admonition why because they are dead But I appeal to ye whether is it thus with ye or no Don't ye say rather I praise the Lord though sometimes yea many times I am out of the way and in the way of sin yet I can rejoyce in an Admonition and blesse the Lord for an Admonition Yea this I can speak though my heart be sometimes very cold yet I have found heat and warmth recovered again either under a Publick or under a Private Ordinance Well then be of good comfort thou art not dead though thou mayest be asleep yet thou mayest be among the living Object I am affraid that I am not alive spiritually that I am not made partaker of this spiritual life because I do not grow in grace and this is the difference between a Living child and a Dead child the Dead painted child grows not but the Living child grows and the Lord knows I do not grow in grace and therefore I fear that I am but the painted child of God and I am not the Living child Answ If this were true it were ill for growth indeed is a sign of life But whoever you are that make this Objection and lie under this fear Give me leave to propound to ye Two or Three Questions First Do ye not grow more out of Love with your own Righteousness and with your own Duties as to the resting on them The stronger a man grows in grace the more he grows into Christ and so the more he grows off from Himself and his own Righteousness Secondly Do ye not find that ye are lesse subject to be offended now than heretofore ye were When a man is in the state of Nature and in Spiritual death then he is apt to be offended against all actions against the good way of God and the people of God This is your Godliness these are your Professors and they are all so very apt to be offended When a man is converted and turn'd to God while he is weak in grace he is apt to stumble and to be offended but the stronger he grows in grace the lesse he will be offended Thirdly Whether do ye not grow more off from the youthfull things that godly men do look unto I say the things that the youthfulness of godliness is taken much with Ye know that Youth is taken with many things that the state of man is not