1!etouo ,Fait.: 347 the Spiritual Circumcifion ; all the Promifes are fealed and really exemplified in his Heart; and what an admirable experiment is this? To fee a Work within anfwering to the Promife in the Word, is a greater fight than ifa Man could have flood by and feen the light Hart forth into Being upon the Almighty fiat fpo- ken by God in the Creation; unto which the Apofile alludeth in letting forth the Divine light fhining into the Heart in the face of Chrifi, 2 Cor. 4. 6. The Magnalia of Grace are more wonderful than thofe of nature. Hence St. Chryfffiom upon thofe words of the A.pofile, We are his workmanfhip created in Chriff Jefus, Ephef. 2. r o. faith of Regeneration,That it is prrcds x1 ío,c, really a Creation, and more noble than the old one ; as adding a bené vivere to that life which came from the old one. The experienced Believer hath caufe to fay, what bath God wrought ? how fearfully is the New Creature made ? all its Graces were written in the Promife, and now are fafhioned in the Heart, where before there were none of them ; How precious are thy thoughts to me,O God ? how great is the fum of them ? This Experi- ment was notably typed out in Ifaac; he was by Promife ; and as loon as he was born, the Promife was experimented notwithflanding the dead body. and dead womb. The Believer the child of Promife it as Ifaiac was, faith the Apofile, Gal. 4.28. All the regenerating Gra- ces are by Promife; and when thefe are brought forth, the Promife is made good maugre all the
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