The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

and they speak as Conquerors being assured through the Captain of their salvation of the victory before they fight. Epiphanius faith,¹ that Adam was buried in Calvary, where Christ was crucified. Sure it is, that Christ at Calvary did somewhat which made the Christians bed soft and easy, that whereas it would have been a bed of Thorns, ⟨p. 66⟩he turned it into a bed of down, and thereby the believer comes to lye on it so contentedly, and to sleep so sweetly and comfortably.

and they speak as Conquerors being assured through the Captain of their salvation of the victory before they fight. Epiphanius faith,¹ that Adam was buried in Calvary, where Christ was crucified. Sure it is, that Christ at Calvary did somewhat which made the Christians bed soft and easie, that whereas it would have been a bed of Thorns, ⟨p. 66⟩he turned it into a bed of down, and thereby the beleiver comes to lye on it so contentedly, and to sleep so sweetly and comfortably.

1. 1Epiph. lib. 1. cap 33.

By this time Reader, I hope thou understandest the necessity and benefit of this relative change. With this Covenant thou art armed Cap a pie with armour of proof (with the righteousness of Christ) which is law proof, death proof, and judgement proof, and leavest Death wholly disarmed and naked. Without this thou hast no Weapons and findest Death a man of War. In the forequoted place, thou seest that sin is the sting of Death, and the strength of sin is the Law. The Law binds the soul over for disobedience to its precept, to its malediction and punishment, passeth a sentence of condemnation already upon the creature, and beginneth its execution in that bondage and fear, as flashes of the unquenchable fire, which seize on men in this life,