--Chrilliarflift the *offnoble life. 57 humbling man, breaking andbruiting the{fony heart, plow- ing up the fallow ground of mans heart, making it of barren -to become good ground, - canting the choifcfh plants of his =grace , and fruits of righteoufneffe to grow there. Chrift doth not enely proffer his grace, and flirre up good .defiresand purFofes,' but he irifuleth fupernaturall qualities of holineffe into the fouleofmar,.;he makes him anew creature, ,caufing old things topathaway , and making all things be- -come new;he puts not aforme,but apower of godlinefle into Iran ; he dyes the heart ingraine with grace andhelineffe; he makes him a living man indeed for his life and- po ter of grace, for his unfained leve to God, for his burning -zeafr -for God, for his gracious. prokreffe in the wayes of God, for his fweet and blcdfed delight in God, and for his full and through conformity to the will of God : 'Aria caufeth his Spirit to come upon him mightily, as it cameupon n Samp- fon, inabling him to overcome the Dcvill, the world and -his owne-corruption, as the SpiritinabledSampfon toover- -come the Lyon, transforming man into the Image and like. ..nefle of God, not as the Devill transformed himfelfe into the Image and likeneffe of Samuel, remaining aDevill hill; but as Chriti ° turned :water into wire, gracioufly changing the qualities of man, making him of a dead a living man, of proud .humble, of ignorant wife, of obftinate foft and tender hearted, ofprophane holy, of cold fervent, of bar- ren fruitfull , of werke and impotent, untoward and indi- fpofed , he makes him 'firong and able, apt and ready to every good duty, and this is the manner of Chrif}s.living in man. n Lad: r4. o Iohra g.
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