-------------------------------------------------- 778 Book.tV. Part+ Looking unto 1tfus. Chap.z. Se~.4 taken with them? canft thou fleep away {uch Sermons as thefe ? haft thou no heart-rifings, no fiirrings, workings, longings, dciires in thy foul ? Oh take heed ! this is a dangerous cafe : but on. the contrary, if thou fayft in thy heart, Oh th11t I could heare thu Sermon 11gaine ! 0 the fweet ana vertue of Chrifts refurreClion! I had not thot~ght {11ch honey ceuld have dropped out ~J thu r~ak; 0 the blej]'ed beginningundJPringings of gr~ce which !felt in my fl1tl m fuch a meditation_! Oh the deJi.re, the delight l. 0 the longings! 0 the comfortsofChrifts refurre[flon! 0 the drawmgsof the Spirit, melining my heArt to receive Jefus Chrift, to clofe with him, and to refton him, and togive up my folfe to him! why this Spirit of faith doth argue tl:iy title and intereft to the quickening Spirit of Chrift. . ; . Thy quickeaing Spirit, is a Spirit of fan&ification : fuclt - was the Spirit whereby Chrift wasraifed, he wM dec/11red miflhtil• RonM.1•· j h . .r r. -" 'J to be the Son ofqod, liCCor~ing tot e Sperit c; ;anElifica,tion, by the refumllion from the dead. That fame Spirit which railed Ul_) Jefus Chrift, was that fame divine Spirit which fanct:ified his hu.. mane nature wherein it dwelt; and fuch is this quickening Spirit to all in whom it dwelleth; it is a Spirit of hotinelfe, and it: works holineife, changing the heart, and turning the bent of it from fin to holinetfe. If any man be in Chrift, he if anew cre.c- : Cor, r-'7· ture; old things 11re paj]'td'ltway, behold all things Are become new~ q. d. When once the bcleever is by an ad: offaith palfed over unto Chrift, there goes immediately from the Spirit of Ohrift into his foul /an effectual power, which alters and changes the frame ofthe whole man; now he is not the fame that he was. he is changed in his company. in his difcollrfe, in his prad:ife, h; tst'han~Jed in his nature, judgement, will, affections; he is fimElified througheu; in [o11l, body, a'nd[pirit; 0 my foul try thy felf'eby t his !igne, doft thou finde fuch an inward change wrought in thy fvul ? doH.thou finde the law ofGod, a law of holinelfe wricten on thy heart? doft thou finde a law within thee contra. ry'to the la·y of fin, commanding with authority that which is holy and good ? fo that thou canll fay with the Apoftle, I deRom ,.u,~5·/ight in the law ofGod after the inw11rd man; and with m1 minde I Rom. 8, z. myJelfeferve t1Jei:4w ofGod? iffo,furely this is no other, butt he· l11w of the Spirit_ of life in !efm ChrijJ ; or the law of this
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