A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

And if we thus gain his company, and give him friendly entertainment when he dwelleth in us, possessing our vessels in sanctification and honour, ¹that they may be fit Temples for this pure Majesty, and not vexing and grieving this holy Guest, by quenching those good motions which he suggesteth unto us; then will not he be idle in us, but will direct and guide us in all our ways, and enable and strengthen us unto all Christian duties of holiness and righteousness; nor come alone to dwell in us, but accompanied with the sweet society of all sanctifying and saving graces. And first of all, he will quicken us in the life of grace, who were before dead in trespasses and sins, and give unto us spiritual motion in all holy actions: ²the which, though at first it be but weak, and scarcely to be discerned (like a child newly quickened in the womb) yet shall it increase by degrees, until we be strengthened for the spiritual birth, and grow up from age to age, and from strength to strength, unto a perfect man, and unto the ³measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, of which life the Spirit of God is the principal Author, according to that of the Apostle: If the Spirit of ⁴