Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

1. If Christs resurrection be mine, then is Christs death mine; the fruits or effects of Christs death and resurrection cannot be severed; if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, ¹we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. Mortification, and vivification, are twins of one and the same spirit; depart from evil and do good.— Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Many may think they have their part in the first resurrection,² but can they prove their death unto sin? as there cannot be a resurrection before a man dye, so there cannot be a resurrection to a new life, but there must be a separation of the soul from the body of sin; what, shall a man cleave to sin, be wedded to sin; yea shall a man like it, love it, live in it, and yet say or imagine that Christs resurrection is his? O be not deceived, God is not mocked! come, search, try, examine, hast thou any share in Christs passion? knowest thou the fellowship of his sufferings? art thou made conformable to his death, that as he dyed for sin; so thou dyest to sin? if herein thou art at a stand, peruse those Characters laid down in his sufferings and death, the truth and growth of our mortification, or of our death unto sin is discovered before.

1. If Christs resurrection be mine, then is Christs death mine; the fruits or effects of Christs death and resurrection cannot be severed; if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, ¹we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. Mortification, and vivification, are twins of one and the same spirit; depart from evil and do good.— Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Many may think they have their part in the first resurrection,² but can they prove their death unto sin? as there cannot be a resurrection before a man dye, so there cannot be a resurrection to a new life, but there must be a separation of the soul from the body of sin; what, shall a man cleave to sin, be wedded to sin; yea shall a man like it, love it, live in it, and yet say or imagine that Christs resurrection is his? O be not deceived, God is not mocked! come, scearch, try, examine, hast thou any share in Christs passion? knowest thou the fellowship of his sufferings? art thou made conformable to his death, that as he dyed for sin; so thou dyest to sin? if herein thou art at a stand, peruse those Characters laid down in his sufferings and death, the truth and growth of our mortification, or of our death unto sin is discovered before.