Secondly, The holiness of God is a Self-holiness; God is not only full, § 2 but self-full, full with his own fullness; he lends to all, borrows of none: But the fullness of a Believer is a borrowed, a precarious fullness; we depend on God for the beginning and begetting of Grace; for the increasing and nourishing of that Grace he has begotten and begun; for the confirming and strengthening that Grace he has increased; for the perfecting and completing of that Grace he has confirmed and strengthened, and for the crowning of what he has so perfected and completed. Chrysostom, upon that, John 1.16. And of his fullness, we all have received, and grace for grace, informs us, that Christ is [Greek or Hebrew], the very Self-fountain. Believers must confess with David, Psal. 71.8. That all our Springs are in him. Again, that Christ is [Greek or Hebrew], the very Self-root: We must freely and thankfully own, that in him is our fruit found, Hosea 14.8. Again, that Christ is [Greek or Hebrew], the very Self-life, John 5.26. He has Life in himself: That we have, we acknowledge it to be from him, as our Principle, Spring, Root, with whom is the fountain of life, Psal. 36.9. And that the life which we live in the Flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2.20. In a word, all our Obedience is rooted in the habits of Grace wrought in the Soul, and those habits are all rooted in Christ, who, as Chrysostom goes on, [Greek or Hebrew], contains in himself the treasures of all good things: and not only so, but [Greek or Hebrew], he overflows, and ever flows with Streams of Grace to all the Saints; not only being full, but filling others; not only rich, but enriching others; a living Jesus, and giving Life to others. And thus by Faith engrafted into Christ, we partake of the root and of the fatness of the Olive-tree, Rom. 11.17.
Secondly, The holiness of God is a Self-holiness; God is not only full, § 2 but self-full, full with his own fulness; he lends to all, borrows of none: But the fulness of a Believer is a borrowed, a precarious fulness; we depend on God for the beginning and begetting of Grace; for the encreasing and nourishing of that Grace he has begotten and begun; for the confirming and strengthning that Grace he has encreased; for the perfecting and compleating of that Grace he has confirmed and strengthned, and for the crowning of what he has so perfected and compleated. Chrysostom, upon that, John 1.16. And of his fulness, we all have received, and grace for grace, informs us, that Christ is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the very Self-fountain. Believers must confess with David, Psal. 71.8. That all our Springs are in him. Again, that Christ is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the very Self-root: We must freely and thankfully own, that in him is our fruit found, Hosea 14.8. Again, that Christ is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the very Self-life, John 5.26. He has Life in himself: That we have, we acknowledge it to be from him, as our Principle, Spring, Root, with whom is the fountain of life, Psal. 36.9. And that the life which we live in the Flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2.20. In a word, all our Obedience is rooted in the habits of Grace wrought in the Soul, and those habits are all rooted in Christ, who, as Chrysostom goes on, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, contains in himself the treasures of all good things: and not only so, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he overflows, and ever flows with Streams of Grace to all the Saints; not only being full, but filling others; not only rich, but enriching others; a living Jesus, and giving Life to others. And thus by Faith engraffed into Christ, we partake of the root and of the fatness of the Olive-tree, Rom. 11.17.
