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First Mark; That it is to tall; a whole change, casting a new form upon soul and body; the whole man; for as the corruption did over spread all the powers of man, so in the restoration the spirit of grace is as large in repairing as sin was in defacing, whence the man thus renewed is called a new man, a new creature; is said to arise from the dead; and accordingly the Scripture makes it a work of the whole man, 1 Thes. 5.23.¹ The God of peace sanctify you throughout, this is expressed to be the whole spirit, soul and body. The mind must be changed, Col. 3.9, 12. The will, John 8.47.² affections, Col. 3. Memory, Psal. 119. Conscience, all sanctified more or less. The kingdom of heaven, that is, the work of grace is compared to leaven, in regard of its diffusive, and spreading nature; it alters the whole lump, Matth. 13.³ hence the work of grace is set out by a comparison from the light; for as that according to the measure of it enlightens all the house at once, not first one place of it, and then another, so is it in the renewing of the soul, it receives the spirit of grace into every part, with one act of the spirit.

First Mark; That it is to tall; a whole change, casting a new forme upon soule and body; the whole man; for as the corruption did over spread all the powers of man, so in the restauration the spirit of grace is as large in repairing as sinne was in defacing, whence the man thus renued is called a new man, a new creature; is said to arise from the dead; and accordingly the Scripture makes it a worke of the whole man,