A30576:216
Four useful discourses viz. ... /Four usefull discourses viz. ... /
Four useful discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1675
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For the First, To me to Live is Christ: That same thing that you call life, It's Christ, all is wrapped up in him: I account nothing Life but Jesus Christ. As for my natural Life, that's no way considerable; but so far as Christ is in it, Christ is the life of the Saints. It's more indeed then if he should say, Christ is my life [Greek or Hebrew] the thing that is to live is Christ; It's a greater Elegance than to say Christ is my life.
For the First, To me to Live is Christ: That same thing that you call life, It's Christ, all is wrapt up in him: I account nothing Life but Jesus Christ. As for my natural Life, that's no way considerable; but so far as Christ is in it, Christ is the life of the Saints. It's more indeed then if he should say, Christ is my life 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the thing that is to live is Christ; It's a greater Elegancy than to say Christ is my life.
Christ is the life of the Saints: First in this, That they are by him freed from a Legal death. Every man by nature is under the Curse of the Law, he is a dead man, as we say of a man that is condemned, he is a dead man; dead by the Law. But now the Saints in Christ, are dead to the Law. Gall. 2. 19. But they live to God, they are freed from that Legal death, and so Christ brings life to them.
Christ is the life of the Saints: First in this, That they are by him freed from a Legal death. Every man by nature is under the Curse of the Law, he is a dead man, as we say of a man that is condemn'd, he is a dead man; dead by the Law. But now the Saints in Christ, are dead to the Law. Gall. 2. 19. But they live to God, they are freed from that Legal death, and so Christ brings life to them.
Secondly, Christ is the principle of Spiritual Life in them. It's Christ that brings me to the Fountain of Life, that unites my Soul again to God; and puts me in a principle of Life, to enable me to live to God, and to enjoy communion with him; I in my self am as a dead Carcass without Jesus Christ. To me to live is Christ.