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

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,] John 15.1, 5, 6, 7. In Baptism you are married unto Christ, as to the external solemnization; and in spiritual Regeneration your Hearts do inwardly close with him, entertain him, and resign themselves unto him, by Faith and Love; and by a resolved Covenant become his own: And therefore Baptism and the Lords Supper are called Sacraments, because as Soldiers were wont by an Oath and listing their names, and other ⟨p. 272⟩engaging Ceremonies to oblige themselves to their Commanders, and their Vow wa• called A Sacrament: so do we engage ou• selves to Christ in the holy Vow or Covenant entered in Baptism, and renewed in the Lords Supper.