Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

6. Growth in Grace is always annexed to true Sanctification. Verse 3. So that thy youth is renewed like the Eagles. Interpreters trouble themselves much about the manner of the Eagles renewing its youth, and regaining its vigour:^* He speaks best, that saith, the Psalmist speaks only according to the opinion of the vulgar, and his design was not to write a Natural History. Growth always accompanies Grace, as well as it doth Nature in the Body; not that it is without its qualms, & languishing fits as Children are not, but still their distempers make them grow; Grace is not an idle, but an active principle. 'Tis not like, the Psalmist means it of the strength of the Body, or the prosperity and stability of his Government, but the vigour of his Grace and Comfort, since they are spiritual blessings here, that are the matter of his song. The healing the Disease conduceth to the sprouting up, and flourishing of the Body. 'Tis the Nature of Grace to go from strength to strength.

6. Growth in Grace is always annext to true Sanctification. Verse 3. So that thy youth is renew'd like the Eagles. Interpreters trouble themselves much about the manner of the Eagles renewing its youth, and regaining its vigor:^* He speaks best, that saith, the Psalmist speaks only according to the opinion of the vulgar, and his design was not to write a Natural History. Growth always accompanies Grace, as well as it doth Nature in the Body; not that it is without its qualms, & languishing fits as Children are not, but still their distempers make them grow; Grace is not an idle, but an active principle. 'Tis not like, the Psalmist means it of the strength of the Body, or the prosperity and stability of his Government, but the vigor of his Grace and Comfort, since they are spiritual blessings here, that are the matter of his song. The healing the Disease conduceth to the sprouting up, and flourishing of the Body. 'Tis the Nature of Grace to go from strength to strength.

1. *Amyrald. in loc.