Chrfprefrrver of theLifeofgrace. 2,5 I dome ofGod within. you ;. Chrift by. his Spirit enlightening their hearts, and effectually moving, working, and framing their foules to beleeve his promifes, and doe his will; and they are laid tohave the LAW in their hearts ; Chrift ruling o PCa1.4o.2. and commanding there, by putting into their.hearts a difpo- fitionof holy and humble fubjeftion, futable to the holinefle of the Law : And it was prophecyed of Chrift, that in the dayof his p power, when Chrift fhould be preached, and his p Pra1:1 to,;. kingdome erefted in thehearts of men : The people (hula' be willing, voluntarily and freely fubjeft and obedient unto Chrilt, as themembers to thehead ; and thus Chrift lives in menby his holy gubernation, raigne and rule in the foules of men, r. Byway ofpreférvatien and continuance unto perfettion. s.Bqway of The foule lives in the body, preferving the body from putre- prefervation. faftion, continuing the body unto its appointed perfeftion ; Chri{t liveth in the foules of Godschildren, preferving them from finne, that they doe notputrifie in finne,, though annoy- edwith finne, as thebody with nafty humours, and keeping them from-the death of finne,.that it never get dominion over them, as death overdead men, though it abide like a difeafe within them ; perfefting alto the lifeof grace in them, un- till they come to the lifeof- glory :Thofe thou eaveft me (faith Chrift) 1have; krpt, andnone of them isloft. Whom God the 4 Iohn 17. Ix Father gives to Chriftby eternall eleftion,and effeftuall voca-. tion, themChrilt keeps in the {late ofgrace, in them he noue riches and maintaines fpirituall life , them he keeps in the knowledgeof Gods truth, in thefaithof Gods promifes, in the . love of Gods teftimonies, in the obedienceof. Gods precepts; them he keeps in profperity, that they fwell not ; inadverfty, that they repine not ; in temptation, that they defpaire not ; in all changes, that they changenot ;_,he Both -rperfect; Ita6liJh, r t Pet.q.io. firengthen,, and /titlethem ; he. makes fpirituall life more full and active, ftrong and vigorous in them ; the longer Chrift liveth in them, the more perfectionhe minifters unto them, themore abundantly he fils then, the more he macaifefts the power ofhis grace towards them .; and thus Chrift lives in Gods children, by prefervingandperfefting the life ofgrace in)
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