Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

but a man enjoying the same faculties under the command of a reasonable soul, he useth them rationally: so is it in a regenerate man; his understanding, will, and affections, when they had no other command but reason, he only used them rationally, but now being under the guiding of the Spirit of Christ, they work spiritually, and he useth them spiritually; and hence it is that a regenerate man is every where in Scripture,¹ said to Walk after the Spirit; to be led by the Spirit, to walk in the Spirit; the Spirit (by way of infusing or shedding) gives power, an ability, a seed, a principle of spiritual life, which the soul had not before; and from this principle of spiritual life planted in the Soul, flows or springs those spiritual motions and operations (as the Spirit leads them out) according to the habit, or principle of the new creature, the divine nature, the spiritual life infused. Come then, look to it O my soul, What is thy principle within? consider not so much the outward actions, the outward duties of Religion, as, that root from whence they grow, that principle from whence they come: they are fixed ones, settled ones by way of life in thee? Clocks have their motions, but they are not motions of life, because they have no principles of life within. Is there life within? then art thou born again, yea even unto thee a Child is born. This is one evidence.

but a man enjoying the same faculties under the command of a reasonable soul, he useth them rationally: so is it in a regenerate man; his understanding, will, and affections, when they had no other command but reason, he only used them rationally, but now being under the guiding of the Spirit of Christ, they work spiritually, and he useth them spiritually; and hence it is that a regenerate man is every where in Scripture,¹ said to Walk after the Spirit; to be led by the Spirit, to walk in the Spirit; the Spirit (by way of infusing or shedding) gives power, an ability, a seed, a principle of spiritual life, which the soul had not before; and from this principle of spiritual life planted in the Soul, flows or springs those spiritual motions and operations (as the Spirit leads them out) according to the habit, or principle of the new creature, the divine nature, the spiritual life infused. Come then, look to it O my soul, What is thy principle within? consider not so much the outward actions, the outward duties of Religion, as, that root from whence they grow, that principle from whence they come: they are fixed ones, setled ones by way of life in thee? Clocks have their motions, but they are not motions of life, because they have no principles of life within. Is there life within? then art thou born again, yea even unto thee a Child is born. This is one evidence.