VIII. 1. A Christian indeed is one that is so apprehensive of his lost condition, unworthiness and utter insufficiency for himself, and of the office, perfection and sufficiency of Christ, that he hath absolutely put his soul and all his hopes into the hands of Christ; and now liveth in him and upon him; as having no Life but what he hath from Christ, nor any other way of access to God, or acceptance of his person or his service but by him: In him he beholdeth and delightfully admireth the Love and goodness of the Father: In him he hath access with boldness unto God: Through him the most terrible avenging Judge is become a Reconciled God, and he that we could ⟨p. 22⟩not remember but with trembling, is become the most desirable object of our thoughts. He is delightfully employed in prying into the unsearchable mystery; And Christ doth even dwell in his heart by faith: and being rooted and grounded in love, he apprehendeth with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and knoweth the love of Christ which passeth knowledge: Eph. 3.17, 18, 19. He perceiveth that he is daily beholden to Christ, that he is not in hell, that sin doth not make him like to Devils, and that he is not utterly forsaken of God: He feeleth that he is beholden to Christ, for every hours time, and every mercy to his soul or body, and for all his hope of mercy in this life or in the life to come. He perceiveth that he is dead in himself, and that his life is hid with Christ in God. And therefore he is as buried and risen again with Christ; even dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ. Rom. 6.3, 4, 11. Col. 4.4. He saith with Paul, Gal. 2.20. I am crucified with Christ: Nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Thus doth he live as truly and constantly by the second Adam who is a quickening spirit, as he doth by the first Adam who was a living soul. 1 Cor. 15.45. This is a confirmed Christians life.
VIII. 1. A Christian indeed is one that is so apprehensive of his lost condition, unworthyness and utter insufficiency for himself, and of the office, perfection and sufficiency of Christ, that he hath absolutely put his soul and all his hopes into the hands of Christ; and now liveth in him and upon him; as having no Life but what he hath from Christ, nor any other way of access to God, or acceptance of his person or his service but by him: In him he beholdeth and delightfully admireth the Love and goodness of the Father: In him he hath access with boldness unto God: Through him the most terrible avenging Judge is become a Reconciled God, and he that we could ⟨p. 22⟩not remember but with trembling, is become the most desirable object of our thoughts. He is delightfully employed in prying into the unsearchable mysterie; And Christ doth even dwell in his heart by faith: and being rooted and grounded in love, he apprehendeth with all saints, what is the bredth, and length, and depth, and height, and knoweth the love of Christ which passeth knowledge: Eph. 3.17, 18, 19. He perceiveth that he is daily beholden to Christ, that he is not in hell, that sin doth not make him like to Devills, and that he is not utterly forsaken of God: He feeleth that he is beholden to Christ, for every hours time, and every mercy to his soul or body, and for all his hope of mercy in this life or in the life to come. He perceiveth that he is dead in himself, and that his life is hid with Christ in God. And therefore he is as buryed and risen again with Christ; even dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ. Rom. 6.3, 4, 11. Col. 4.4. He saith with Paul, Gal. 2.20. I am crucified with Christ: Nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Thus doth he live as truly and constantly by the second Adam who is a quickning spirit, as he doth by the first Adam who was a living soul. 1 Cor. 15.45. This is a confirmed Christians life.
