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Lastly, he doth improve that fitness for the praise of his great name; the Lord Christ ever receives some in-come of service and obedience, and that soul ever receives some comfort and consolation from him. This is the difference between the first and second Adam: the first Adam had grace, but he neither kept it nor improved it aright, he did not improve that wisdom which God had given him to repel the temptations of Satan and he did not improve his strength and ability to keep him from falling from God but when the Lord Jesus comes to take ⟨p. 171⟩possession of a poor soul, he will not only keep and maintain the grace that he hath given him, but he will quicken it, and provoke that soul to do what he should do in all obedience, and to receive what comfort the Lord hath in store for him. See this in some passages of Scripture: Joh. 15. 1, 2. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Every poor Christian, every poor woman, and every poor Apprentice and little child, whom God hath called, shall bear fruit, he purgeth them, and so the Lord receives some improvement of his graces, that he gives to those that he takes possession of.

Lastly, he doth improue that fitnesse for the praise of his great name; the Lord Christ ever receives some in-come of service and obedience, and that soule ever receives some comfort and consolation from him. This is the difference betweene the first and second Adam: the first Adam had grace, but hee neither kept it nor improved it aright, he did not improve that wisedome which God had given him to repell the temptations of Satan and he did not improue his strength and ability to keepe him from falling from God but when the Lord Iesus comes to take ⟨p. 171⟩possession of a poore soule, he will not onely keepe and maintaine the grace that hee hath given him, but he will quicken it, and provoke that soule to doe what hee should doe in all obedience, and to receive what comfort the Lord hath in store for him. See this in some passages of Scripture: