ThefaithfudareChrills ovnpeople. 3o1 VERSES. faint and imperfe flirrings of the reafonable foul': in little infants, to evidence it felfe in pride, folly,flubbor- neffe, andother childifh finnes : So the Spirit ofgrace in the heart cannot lie dead,but will worke,and move,and asa Spirit ofburningby the light, heate, purging, corn- fatting, inflamingsornbacing vertue which is in it, make the foule which was barren, and fettled on the lees, and unacquainted with any fuch motions before,fiand ama- zed at its owne alteration ar-xl fay with Rebekah , 'fit beefir,vehyam 1 thug ? Externalsmay bee imitated by art; but no man can paint the Conic or the life , or the fenfe and motion ofcreature. NowChrift and his Spirit arc' the internal! formes, and alive principles in a Chriflian man , Chrifi livth ix to when Chriii who is our Life (hall appeare,&c. Therefore impoffible it is that anyhy- pocrite fhould counterfeite,and by confequenceoblate thole intimate and vital! workings of his grace in the , foule, whereby hee evidenceth himfelfe thereunto. It is true, a man that fcareth the Lord may walke in dark- nefre,and be in fuch dilcomforts as he (hall fee no light; and yet even in that condition Chrifi loth not want properties to evidence himfelfe , in tenderneffe ofcon- fcience, feareof time, firivingofSpirit withGod, dole- nefleofheart and conflant recourfe tohim in his word, and the like;onely the foulc is thinup and overclowdcd that it cannot difcerne him. The Spirit of Chrift is a Seale , a winner , an earneil , an hanfell, afirfl fruit of that fuluefle which is promifed hereafter. It is Chrifis owne Spirit, and therefore falloneth the hearts ofthofe in whom it is unto his heavenly image, to long for more comprehenfionof him, for more conformityunto him, for more intimacie and communion with him, for more grace, wifedorne, and flrength from him ; it turneth the bent and courfe ofthc Conic from that earthly and fen- fuall end unto which it wrought before, as a good branch having been ingrafted into a wild hock con- verreth I 101).4,13,
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