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can only he in our head by virtue of the myſtical union, as in re2ard of right the members of Chriſt are ſaid to fit with him in _neavenly places, Eph, 2. 6. fignifyed and ſealed by baptiſm: but the metaphorical and ſpiricual ReſurreQion from ſpiritual death. which is Regeneration, Rom. 9,4. Tir. 2. 5. Wrought by the ſame fpirit which raiſed Chriſt, and whereby renewed Chriſtians live in certain hope of that proper Reſurrettion of cheir Bodies, which Chriſt hath procured. 6 Hereupon he urg- eth them (in the ſame ſenſe our Saviour doth command to ſeck his Kinsdom, Mat. 5, 33.) with diligence to purſue Heaven and Happineſs as the en\l, and Holinels as the means tothe attaining of it. Tohave their converſation in Heaven, Phil. 3,20, c IVhere Chriſt ftreth at the vight hand of God, Whiles the Apoſtle ſpeaks of Ged after the manner of Men we mult take heed of the grofs error of the Anthropomor: kites, who did imagine God to fit in Heaven in the ſhaye of a Mn, Some indeed who abhor ſuch a roſs imagination, yct conceive that becauſe more gene- rally the Heaven is God's throne, and ſhall be ſo for ever, Fer, 17.12, Lam. 5.19. ir, 5. 34. that he hath a particular throne in Heaven, whereon he doth ſhew himfelt ſpecially preſent as in his Temple, 1 Xizg. 22.19, 2/41, 11.4, and fo tho' Chrift is ſet property on the right hand of this Throne, Heb. 1. 3. & 8. T. & 12, 2, Kev. 3.21, but becauſe the conception of ſuch a particular material Throne with extenſion of parts and proper timentions may (beſides other inconveniences) miſguide our apprehenſions and occaſion adoration to the Creature, which ſhould be terminated on God alone who is a pure Spirit, and whereas ſiting is not taken properly, fith Stephen ſaw Chriſt ſtandings, As 7.55. and is oppos'd to the miniftration of An- gels, which hate no bodics or bodily parts, Heb. 1. 13. by moſt it is taken metaphorically, importing that Chrift hath all real power and dominion put into his hands, connoting his authority and ſecurity from his Enemies who are put under his feet, Mat, 28. 13- 1 Cor. 15. 25. is crowned with Majeſty, Glory and Honour, Heb, 1;.& 2,9, enjoying all blefſednels in a moft tranſcendent way, al, 16, 11. & 110 1, As 2,33; 36. having the hu- mane nature filled with abilities to execute all when he entred into glory, I/a. 16. 5. Luke 22, 29, 30. & 24. 26, IC07. 15443. Rev, 19. 6, where he reſi” -yoſſeſſed of all in fatety, AFs 3.21. Rev. 3. 21, *twas above, whither Chrift aſcendeg by a local mo- tion from a certain where here below, intoa certain where above, fo that whatever the Lutherans argue from Chrift's glorious Aſcenſion, and Seſſion, to prove Chrift's Body an ubiquitary, or every where preſent, is inconſequent, fith it 1s Heaven where he wills that Believers ſhould be to behold the glory that his Father hath given him, John 17. 24. wherefore,
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5 Mortifie therefore & your members which « upon the earth]: fornication mm, uncleanneſ; inordinate affeftion o, evil concupiſcence p, and co. vetouſneſs 9, which is idolatry y.
k That they might not think he who had given check to {.. perſtitious abſtinencies, was for the indulging of any cara; affeCtions, he infers here, how the exerciſe of truly Chrifiia; mortification was incumbent on thoſe who were dead to fin, and had their life hid in Chriſt, Neither is it any incongruity th:; they who are in a ſort already dead, ſhould-be'exhorted to ny. tification ; if we do but diſtin&ly conſider of mortification, and what they are to mortifie, or endeavour to make dead, (1 4. to mortification, which may be conſider'd either as to its inc... ation, when upon effettually calling, a mortal wound is by ++ - Spirit of God given to the old Man, or to the habit of {+ whick will in the end or conſummation be a total privation of jr. life, though as yet it be but partial, It is not in regard of inchoative mortification, which was begun upon their c;. ctual calling, that the Apoftle exhorts the Saints in C6/-7- ;, this verſe to mortifie, But mortification may be confider'd a; tg its continuation,and the carrying on the life of grace,in the mak. ing dead all that is contrary to it, even the renew'd Perſyn ſhould be continually folicitous to have the old Man kill out- right without any reprieve. This is it that the Apoſtle put the believing Colofans upon, not to ſpare any remaining il! dif. poſitions or depraved habits of the old Man, but by the affiſtance of the Spirit (for *tis not a natural, but ſpiritual work) Rm, $, 13. G41, 5. 24. continually to reſiſt to the killing of ir, or putting it to death, Never to defift in this war (2) 1 As tv the earthly members of it, The Apoſtle expreſ{eth the obje& uf mor- tification, or what they are to mortifie, by their members upon the earth, not as if he defign'd to put them upon a dilmembring of their Bodies, or a deadning of thole bodily natural parts where» by the Sex is diftinguiſhed, Rom, 6, 13, (though agrecable ro his own practice he would have the Body keptunder and brought into ſubjettion, 1 Cor. 9. 27.) but upon ſubduing jnordinate motions and carnal concupiſcences, as is evident from the par- ticular vices following, which taken as colle&ed and heaped up to- gether, may well paſs wnder the notion of a Body, he had before in this Epiftle mentioned the Body of the Sins of the fleſh, cv, 2, 11. this he might ſay only not metonymically, by reaſon (1c luſts do reſide in the natural Body and Members of it, Km, 6.5,
d That the hearts of Believers here, might be where their ; 12, 19, but (and that chiefly) metaphorically, the maſs of cortup: