}-Jead 11.. Sanltijication. _2 39 :and fanctifying grace purfu.es it into every corner, 1 Thejf. v. 23. Every part of the man is fantl:ified, though no part is perfe&!y fo. The truth we are fanClified 'by, is nqt held in the head, as in a prifon; but runs, with its fanaifying.in– ·fluences, thro' heart and life. There are indeed forne gra– ces in every believer, which appea·r as top-Ur'anches above the refl; as meeknefs in _M ofe:r, patience in Job: but fee– ing there is in every child of God, a holy principle going a– long with the holy law, jn all parts thereof, loving, bkin~, and approving df it; as appears from the~r univerfal refpect to the commands of, God : it is evident they are endued with .aH the grace~ of the Spirit ; becaufe there can be no more in the dft:Cl:, than there was in the caufe. , : Now, this fanctifying Spirit, whereof beiievet"s partake, ' .is unto them, ( 1. ) A fpirit ofmortification .; .tf;rough thefpirit th ty mortifY the deeds of the b._,dy, Rom. v;i: . I 3. fin is cru– .cijied in them, Gal. v. 24. th ey are plant ed l 'jgether (name– ly, with Chrifi) in the likene(/ if hiJ death, which was a lingering death, Rom. vi. ) . Sin in the faint, tho' not quite dead, yet is d_ying. If it were dead, it ~ould be taken down from ' the crofs arid buried o.ut of his ,fight; but, it hangs there as yet, working and fhuggling under its mortal wounds. Look, as when a tree has got fuch ~Jtroke as reaches the h~art of it, a!l the leaves and branches the reof ;begin to fad'e and de'cay : to: where the faMtifying Spirit come:s, and breaks the power of fio, there is a gradual ceaf· ing frondt, and dying to it, in the whoie man ; fo that he no longer lives in the ftt:)h, to the lufls ofmen~ He does not make fin his trade and buknefs ; it is not his great ·deGgn to feek himfelf, aod tO fatisfy his corru?t inclinations : but I1e is f~r lmmanuel's land ~ and is walkir:g in the .high-rwa1 ·to it, the way, which is called, The •u.py of.~o!inrjs: {hough the ·wind from hell, that was on his back before, blo ·,vs now ·full in his face, makes his travelling nneafy, ~nd often drives him off the high way. ( 2 ) This Spirit is a fpirit of vivifi– cation to·them.; for, be i~ the Spirit of life, and makes them live unto righteoufnefs, Ezek. x~xvi. 27. And I rwil! put my fpirit within you, and caufe you /IJ walk in my Jiatute.r. Thefe t_hat have been planted together with Ch :-i{t, in the J ikenefi of f.is d:ath, !hall b.e a!;o in the likenefl ofhi! re– /un·dtion, Ro,m. vi. 5· At Chrifi's.-refurrecrioo, when his ; foul
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