Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises,…

2. There is an Integral Perfection of Holiness: that is, an entire conjugation of all those Sanctifying Graces of which the Image of God Consists. The New Creature in its forming is not like the effects of Art, but the living productions of Nature. A Sculptor in making a Statue of Marble, finishes the Head, when the other part is but rude stone. But all the parts of a Child in the Womb, are gradually formed together, till the Body is complete. The Holy Spirit in renewing a Man, infuses a universal habit of Holiness, that is Comprehensive of all the variety of Graces to be Exercised in the Life of a Christian. As the Corrupt Nature, styled the Old Man, is complete in its Earthly Members, all the Lusts of the Flesh, both of the desiring and angry Appetite, and disposes without the corrective of Restraining Grace, the Natural Man to yield to all Temptations: he will be Fierce with the Contentious, Licentious with the Dissolute, Intemperate with the Drunkard, Lascivious with the Impure, Impious with the Scorners of Religion. Thus the Divine ⟨p. 117⟩Nature, styled the New Man, is complete in all Spiritual Graces, and inclines and enables the Sanctified to do every good Work. The fruit of the Spirit, is Love, Joy, Peace, Long-suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance. Although they are distinguished in their Activity, and particular Objects, yet they always are joined in the same Subject, and Concentre in God, who is Immutably Holy and One. They are mixed in their Exercise without Confusion: As in a Chorus, the variety of Voices is Harmonious and Conspiring. Spiritual Graces according to the degrees of their Perfection, such is the degree of their Union. Every real Saint is conformed to Christ, of whom he receives grace for grace. There are Spiritual Gifts of Arbitrary Dispensation: the word of Wisdom, ¹the word of Knowledge, the gifts of Healing, the works of Miracles, are separately given. But when the Spirit prepares a Soul for his Habitation, he purifies it from Sin, and adorns it with every Grace: if there be a defect of any Grace, the opposite Sin in its power remains in the Soul, and makes it impossible for the Holy Spirit to dwell there.

2. There is an Integral Perfection of Holiness: that is, an entire conjugation of all those Sanctifying Graces of which the Image of God Consists. The New Creature in its forming is not like the effects of Art, but the living productions of Nature. A Sculptor in making a Statue of Marble, finishes the Head, when the other part is but rude stone. But all the parts of a Child in the Womb, are gradually form'd together, till the Body is complete. The Holy Spirit in renewing a Man, infuses a universal habit of Holiness, that is Comprehensive of all the variety of Graces to be Exercis'd in the Life of a Christian. As the Corrupt Nature, stil'd the Old Man, is complete in its Earthly Members, all the Lusts of the Flesh, both of the desiring and angry Appetite, and disposes without the corrective of Restraining Grace, the Natural Man to yield to all Temptations: he will be Fierce with the Contentious, Licentious with the Dissolute, Intemperate with the Drunkard, Lascivious with the Impure, Impious with the Scorners of Religion. Thus the Divine