The world that now is; and the world that is to comeThe vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come

Conversion is that part of God's workmanship upon a Sinner's Soul, wherein God doth first change the whole Man from the sinful similitude of Adam, into the Image of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 3.18. We are changed into his Image, &c. I say, in the work of true Conversion, the whole Man is changed; the heart is made a new heart, Ezek. 36.26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. The Man is made a New-man, Eph. 4.23, 24. And that ye put on the New-man, which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness. And ⟨p. 32⟩his Life, a New-Life, Rom. 6.4. Even so we also should walk ill newness of Life.

Secondly, God doth in the work of Conversion, sanctify the converted person wholly and throughout in Spirit, Soul and Body, 1 Thes. 5.23. The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly, &c. Upon (or at the time of) the Sinner's Conversion God imparts unto him, and implants in him of every Grace, (that is in Christ) a measure, Joh. 1.14.16. And from his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. Also Eph. 4.7. To every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ; which grace is called the incorruptible seed of the New-birth, 1 Pet. 1.23. which seed abideth in sanctified Believers,