[ 1324] The great difference betwixt life naturall, and life Spirituall.
THe ordinary Manna which Israel gathered for their daily use,* 1.1 did pre∣sently corrupt and breed worms; but that which was laid up before the Lord,* 1.2 the hidden Manna in the Tabernacle did keep without putrefaction: So our life which we have here in the Wilderness of this World, doth presently vanish and corrupt;* 1.3 but our life which is kept in the Tabernacle, our life which is hid with Christ in God, that never runs into Death: Naturall life is like the River Iordan,* 1.4 empties it self into the dead Sea; but spirituall life is like the waters of the Sanctuary, which being shallow at the first, grow deeper and deeper into a River,* 1.5 which cannot be passed thorow; Water continually springing and running forward into eternall life; So that the life which we leave is mortall and perishing, and that which we go unto is durable and abounding, Joh. 10. 10.