340 R S E 39 Chrippeople fl Trillingpeople. Sixthly, the judgement is nevev.!throughly illightned to underftand fpiritual things in that immediate and am- plebeautic and goodneffe which is in them, but onlyby the Spirit of Chrifl, which =kali a man to have the Celle- iame tninde, judgement,opinion,and apprehenfion of heavenly things which he had; fo that Chria and a Chriflian doe q ro ,Penah think!, theIonething, as the A- , poffle fpeakes, Phil. 2. 5 . By the which Spirit ofgrace, working firft upon the judgement to re6li5e that, and to convince it of the evidence and neceffitie of that moll univerfall and adequate goodwhich it prefenteth, the whole nature is proportionably renewed,and Chriff for- -redafwell in the will and affedlions,asin the underfian- ding : as thebody in the wombe is not awedby pecce. meale, one part after another, but all together by pro- portionable degrees and progreffes of perfection : So that at the fame timewhen the Spirit ofgrace by an as of heavenly illumination is prefent with the judgement of reafon to evidence, not the truth onely,but theexcel- lenckof the knowledge of Chrift thereunto, it is like- wife prefent byanaet ofheavenly perfwafion, andmoil intimate allurement unto thewill and affecaions,fweetly accommodating itsworking unto the exigence and con- dicionofthe faculties,that they likewife may with fuch libertie and complacencie as becomes both their °time nature,and the qualitieoftheobedience required, apply themfelves to the define and profecution of thole excel- lent things which are with Co fpirituall an evidence let forthunto them in the minifieryof the Word.. As by the fame foule the eye feeth, and the care hearcth, and the hand vvorketh : fo when chrifl by his Spirit is for- med in us, (for theSpirit of Chria is the Athaprinsw, or fouleofa Chriflianman, that which animateth him unto an heavenly beingaod working,Rom.8. 9, 10,1 t. Or 6 17) every power of the foule and body is in Ionic proportionable meafure enabled to worke fin; mode;
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