_Answ._ Some suppose, that its being assigned as a matter of duty for sinners to rise from the dead, does not infer, that it is in their own power; but, that it only signifies, that none can expect eternal life but those who rise from the death of sin; and accordingly, as the promise, here mentioned, relating to our _having light_, is said to be _Christ’s gift_, so the power to perform that duty, which is inseparably connected with it, to wit, _rising from the dead_, is to be sought for at his hand. But if this answer be not reckoned sufficient, I see no absurdity in supposing, that these two expressions, _Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead_, import the same thing. Sleep is, as it were, the image of death; and therefore, by a metaphorical way of speaking, it may be here called _death_; and if so, the apostle commands believers to awake out of their carnal security, or shake off their stupid frames, as they expect the light of eternal life: however, if it be taken in this sense here; yet when we meet with the words _quickened_, or _raised from the dead_, elsewhere, they may be understood in a different sense, as denoting the implanting a principle of grace in regeneration, as will appear by the context: thus when God is said to _quicken those who were dead in trespasses and sins; who walked according to the course of this world, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were, by nature, the children of wrath_; and to do this with a design to shew the _exceeding riches of his grace, and kindness towards them_; and as the consequence thereof, to work that faith which accompanies salvation, which is not of themselves, but his gift: I say, if these things are mentioned when we are said to be _quickened_, or _raised from the dead_, certainly it argues more than a stupid believer’s awaking from that carnal security, which he is under, who is supposed to have a principle of spiritual life, whereby he may be enabled so to do. _Object._ 4. It is also objected to what has been said, concerning effectual calling’s being a work of divine power, that those scriptures, which speak of it as such, denote nothing else but the power of working miracles; whereby they to whom the gospel was preached, were induced to believe; as when the apostle says, _His preaching was in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power_, 1 Cor. ii. 4. that is, the doctrines he preached, were confirmed, and the truth thereof demonstrated by the power of the Holy Ghost, enabling them to work miracles: and _the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power_, chap. iv. 20. that is, the gospel is not only preached, but confirmed by miracles: _Our gospel came to you in power, and in the Holy Ghost_, 1 Thes. i. 5. that is, as some understand it, the gospel which we preach, was confirmed by the power and miraculous works of the Holy Ghost; which has no reference to the internal efficacious influences of the Spirit put forth in effectual calling.