The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…

4. They are certainly unregenerate that Believe not the Gospel, and take not Christ for their only Saviour, and his promises of Grace and Glory as purchased by his Sacrifice and Merits, for the Foundation of their hopes, on which they resolve to trust their souls for pardon and for peace with God, and endless Happiness, Acts 4.12. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.] 1 John 5.11, 12. This is the record that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son: He that hath the Son, hath life; and he that hath not the Son, hath not life.]

When our Happiness was in Adams hands, he lost it: It is now put into safer hands, and Jesus Christ the second Adam is become our Treasury. He is the Head of the Body, from whom each member hath quickening influence, Eph. 1.22. The life of Saints is in him, as the life of the tree is in the root, unseen, Col. 4.3, 4. Holiness is a ⟨p. 271⟩Living unto God in Christ; Though we are dead with Christ, to the Law, and to the world, and to the flesh, we are alive to God. So Paul describeth our case in his own, Gal. 2.19, 20. I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God: 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,] Rom. 6.11. Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.] Christ is the Vine, and we are the branches: without him we can do nothing: If you abide not in him, and his words in you, you are cast forth as a branch, and withered, which men gather and cast into the fire, and they are burnt,]