2ly, On the other part also, labour to be upon good terms with the Lord; secure it that he be yours. Your way to that is short and expedite. The same by which we become his, Ezek. 16.8. I entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine. Solemnly and unfeignedly accept him, and surrender your selves. Without this, who can expect but to hear from him at last, Depart from me, I know you not? Know of your selves, demand an account, Are you sincerely willing to be his? and to take him for yours, without limitation or reserves? Matters are then agreed between him and you: And who can break or disannul the Agreement? Who can come between him and you? I often think of the high transport wherewith those words are uttered; The excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, Phil. 3.8. This is Christian Religion, not in a System, but as it is a vital principle, and habit in the Soul, inclining us, making us propense towards our blessed Lord; addicting and subduing us to him; uniting us with him. Whereby we come to know by inward sensations; to feel the transfusions of his spiritful Light and Influence, and our Souls thereby caught, and bound up in the bundle of Life. So we have Christ formed within; His Holy Truths, Doctrines, Precepts, Promises, inwrought into the temper of our Spirits. And, as it follows in that Context, Phil. 3. to have him, according to the States, wherein he successively was, by correspondent impressions represented in us. So as that we come to bear the Image of him, crucified and dying, first; then reviving, and rising; and ⟨p. 37⟩afterwards, ascending and glorified. To know him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his Death; If, by any means, we might attain unto the Resurrection of the Dead, Vers. 10, 11.
2ly, On the other part also, labour to be upon good terms with the Lord; secure it that he be yours. Your way to that is short and expedite. The same by which we become his, Ezek. 16.8. I entred into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine. Solemnly and unfeignedly accept him, and surrender your selves. Without this, who can expect but to hear from him at last, Depart from me, I know you not? Know of your selves, demand an account, Are you sincerely willing to be his? and to take him for yours, without limitation or reserves? Matters are then agreed between him and you: And who can break or disanul the Agreement? Who can come between him and you? I often think of the high transport wherewith those words are uttered; The excellent knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord, Phil. 3.8. This is Christian Religion, not in a System, but as it is a vital principle, and habit in the Soul, inclining us, making us propense towards our blessed Lord; addicting and subduing us to him; uniting us with him. Whereby we come to know by inward sensations; to feel the transfusions of his spiritful Light and Influence, and our Souls thereby caught, and bound up in the bundle of Life. So we have Christ form'd within; His Holy Truths, Doctrines, Precepts, Promises, inwrought into the temper of our Spirits. And, as it follows in that Context, Phil. 3. to have him, according to the States, wherein he successively was, by correspondent impressions represented in us. So as that we come to bear the Image of him, crucified and dying, first; then reviving, and rising; and ⟨p. 37⟩afterwards, ascending and glorifi'd. To know him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his Death; If, by any means, we might attain unto the Resurrection of the Dead, Vers. 10, 11.
