The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Faith doth enrich the soul with all the merits of Christ, with the Spirit of Christ, Christ imputed, Christ imparted, Christ infused: with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification: with the Holiness of Christ for Sanctification. Faith will not want it, if Christ have it: Faith will not be poor, if Christ be rich, will not be empty, if Christ be full.¹— I cannot be poor (saith Bernard) so long as God is rich: his Riches are mine: Of his fullness I receive Grace for Grace.

Faith doth inrich the soul with all the merits of Christ, with the Spirit of Christ, Christ imputed, Christ imparted, Christ infused: with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification: with the Holiness of Christ for Sanctification. Faith will not want it, if Christ have it: Faith will not bee poor, if Christ bee rich, will not bee empty, if Christ bee full.¹— I cannot bee poor (saith Bernard) so long as God is rich: his Riches are mine: Of his fulness I receive Grace for Grace.

1. 1Ego non sum meriti inops, quamdiu ille non est inops miserationum. Bernard.

Christ indeed is a Fountain, but he is a Fountain sealed up: He is a Treasure, but he is a Treasure locked up to an unbelieving heart. Faith is the Key that unlocks this Treasure, opening the Treasuries of Heaven, making an inlet of all the Glory of Christ. Faith gives the soul communion with all the Riches of Christ. So far as it is possible for Christ to be communicated; he is made ours by Faith; ⟨p. 109⟩by it there is a conveyance made of all the great revenues of Christ. The great stock, which Christ did purchase by his Blood, is passed over to the believing soul. There is a Deed of Gift made to such; wherein I say, Not the whole Righteousness of the Mediator;