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Yea, If those Truths do abide upon the Spirits, they have a Transforming power, they have a power to change the Heart into the same likeness: According to that Scripture, 2 Cor. 3. 18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a Glass, the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Now this Gospel of the Lord, is nothing else but the good things of the Gospel: We behold ⟨p. 191⟩them, and that as with open Face, as we do behold the Gospel of the Lord. And what then? We are changed into the same Image. Oh! this is a Blessed abiding, it is a Blessed thing for the things of the Gospel to rest upon the Soul. Why? Because they have such a Power in them to Change the Heart, to Transform the Heart into the very Image of them, and the Truths of the Gospel have the clearest Image of God upon them; the Glory of God is Imprinted upon the Truths of the Gospel. Now that these should rest upon the Spirit, it must needs be a great Mercy.

Another is this, It is that which makes them indeed to be Saving: All those Blessed things of the Gospel that are Revealed, they never come to be Saving, until they come to rest upon the Soul; to be got into the Heart, and there to dwell and rest. Mark that Scripture, in James 1. 21. Wherefore lay a part all Filthiness, and Superfluity of Naughtiness, and receive with Meekness the Engrafted Word, which is able to save your Souls. Mark, Receive with Meekness the Word: But how? The Engrafted Word, which is able to save your Souls. The Word of God can never save your Souls, till it comes to be an Engrafted Word. Now these things I premise, to show you the Excellency of this, that so I might have the more ground for an Exhortation by and by: To labour to keep the Word of God, I mean those Truths of the Gospel, that at any times comes to be discovered to you.

Another is this, It is that which makes them indeed to be Saving: All those Blessed things of the Gospel that are Revealed, they never come to be Saving, until they come to rest upon the Soul; to be got into the Heart, and there to dwell and rest. Mark that Scripture, in