Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Fourthly, By way of resignation, in giving up your selves to Jesus Christ. Faith, as it takes Christ, so it delivers up the soul to Christ. Faith makes a happy exchange for us, giving away the man to Christ, and receiving Christ for us. Thus, between Christ and a believer, there is a mutual delivery of themselves over to one another. As faith receives Christ, so ⟨p. 225⟩it gives up the soul to Christ, and all that it hath; Lord, saith faith, I here resign to thee: I quit all claim to my self, I am not my own: and will own it henceforth, that I have no right to my self. I give up soul and body to thee: I will hold back no part of the price. And as faith takes first the person of Christ, and then the benefits of Christ: so it gives away the person of the man to Christ, and then with the person it gives all the rest; the estate, interest, and all to Jesus Christ, thus you should be exercising your faith.

Fifthly, By way of Adoration, thus saith should put forth its self upon Christ: casting our Crowns before him: setting up the Lord Jesus Christ in the throne of his own excellency, and we should admire nothing but him, breaking in pieces all our Idols, and pulling them down, that Christ alone may be exalted.

Sixthly, By way of Appreciation, prizing and esteeming of Christ, debasing self and all other excellencies in comparison of Christ: accounting all things but dung for Christ, such was Pauls faith.