The Saints 3 pirituaa firength. 129 as firft , when a man can doe more then a naturali man can doe by nature, then the Spirit hath added new habits ; as for example , any hand can cut with a Chiffell or the like inftrumenr,but if he can by it make a piâure , this is a worke above nature becaufe no man can doe it unlef a he hath beene taught it.So when the Spirit comes into the heart, then it makes a man to doe more then naturally he can doe water you know the nature of it is cold, but ifyou would have it of another qualitie, then you muff put a quality of fire into ir. So the foule is dead, and cold by nature, but if a qualitie of the fire of the fpirit be added unto it,t hen it will be a- ble to do more then it naturally can doe: therefore examine what new habits and qualities be in you : whether you have a new habit of patience, love, hope, and experience, that; is as patience begets experience, and experience hope , fo where the fpirit is, it doth beget new habits, and qualities in the foule, by which it is able to doe more then naturally it can doe : as I faid , it firfl builds the houfe,and fweepes the roomes and then it firs,and furnifhes the roomes with new habits and quali- ties of grace. The third way how the Spirit flrengthens ;. werkf. grace, is this, when it hath given us new habits, then it inables and helps us to ufe thefè habits to good. And herein appeares the power and excel- lency of the Spirit , not onely to give fpirituall life, and ftrength , but alfoto finable us to rife that S 2 flrength
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