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

To sweeten this union to our thoughts I shall acquaint you with the privilege flowing from it, and let the same stir you up to conform.

To sweeten this union to our thoughts I shall acquaint you with the priviledg flowing from it, and let the same stir you up to conform.

Hence it is that Christ lives in us, and that Christ both gives life, and is our life. When Christ which is our life shall appear, Christ is to me to live, and I live, yet not I, ¹but Christ liveth in me. There is a spiritual and natural life; for the natural life what is it but a bubble, a vapour, a shadow, a dream, a nothing? but this Spiritual life is an excellent life, it is wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ; there is a world of difference betwixt the natural and the spiritual life, and that makes the difference betwixt what I do as a man, and what I do as a Christian; as a man I have eyes, ears, motions, affections, understandings, naturally as my own; but as a Christian I have all these from him with whom I am spiritually one, the Lord Jesus Christ; as a man I have bodily eyes, and I behold bodily and material things; but as a Christian I have spiritual eyes, and I see invisible and eternal things, as it is said of Moses, that he endured, ²as seeing him who is invisible; as a man I have outward ears, and I hear outward sounds of all sorts whether articulate, or inarticulate; but as a Christian I have inward ears, and so I hear the voice of Christ, and of Gods Spirit, speaking to my soul; as a man I have bodily feet, and by them I move in my own secular ways; but as a Christian I have spiritual feet, and on them I walk with God in all the ways of his Commandments; as a man I have natural affections, and so I love beauty, and fear pain, and hate an enemy, and I rejoice in outward prosperity, or the like; but as a Christian I have renewed affections, and so I loved goodness, and hate nothing but sin; and I fear above all the displeasure of my God, and I rejoice in Gods favour, which is better than life. Surely this is a blessed life; and as soon as ever I am united to Christ, why then I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. First, Christ is conceived, and