Ihe Saints Spirituali ßrength, 143 have this power to worke above nature. For if you have the Spirit, you (hall finde your felves a- ble to keepe downe your lulls, have power and abilicie to fanâifie the Sabbath, power to pray, power to heare, power to conferre, power to me- ditate, power to love, power to obey, all above nature ; a power to forfake life,and libertie,riches, and honour, pleafure, and all things if they come in competition with Chrift, which no man will doe except he have the Spirit. Secondly, as it gives f}rength and other excel- a. lent qualities above nature, fo it addes unto it ho- lineflè; it puts a tináure, and a good dye upon all your adions,it warmeth thegift of the minde,and puts the heart in a frame ofgrace : many men have a kinde of (trengch , but they want holinefleand fandtfication with it; now a man is Paid to bee a holy man , when the foule is feparated and di- vorc`ft from things that are contrary to its falva- tion and happine(i'e, and joyned and united unto Cnriff wholly and totally , then and not till then, is a man tkrue holy man: it is with a holy man in this cafe, as it is with a fpoufe, Thee is feparated from others,and united unto her husband : there- fore they that have the Spirit, have holineffe with it : the veffels in the time of the Law they were holy veffels; becaufe they were appointed for Gods worthip : in like manner, when the Spirit comes into the heart,it fandifies ir,and makes him a holy man, by making him in all his ay mes and ends , to pitch upon Gods glory , and this can no V AWE
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