Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

1. IT will be effected by that transforming Power and Efficacy, which this Exercise of Faith is always accompanied withal. This is that which changeth us every day more and more into the likeness of Christ, as hath been at large before declared. Herein all Revivals and all Flourishings are contained. To have a good measure of Conformity unto Christ, is all whereof in this Life we are capable: The perfection of it is Eternal Blessedness. According as are our Attainments therein, so is the thriving and flourishing of the Life of Grace in us, which is that which is aimed at; other ways and means it may be have failed us, let us put this to the Trial. Let us live in the constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, and virtue will proceed from him to repair all our Decays, to renew a right. Spirit within us, and to cause us to abound in all Duties of Obedience. This way of producing these effects, Flesh and Blood will not reveal; it looks like washing in Jordan to cure a Leprosy: But the Life of Faith is a Mystery known only unto them in whom it is.

1. IT will be effected by that transforming Power and Efficacy, which this Exercise of Faith is always accompanied withal. This is that which changeth us every day more and more into the likeness of Christ, as hath been at large before declared. Herein all Revivals and all Flourishings are contained. To have a good measure of Conformity unto Christ, is all whereof in this Life we are capable: The perfection of it is Eternal Blessedness. According as are our Attainments therein, so is the thriving and flourishing of the Life of Grace in us, which is that which is aimed at; other ways and means it may be have failed us, let us put this to the Tryal. Let us live in the constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, and vertue will proceed from him to repair all our Decays, to renew a right. Spirit within us, and to cause us to abound in all Duties of Obedience. This way of producing these effects, Flesh and Blood will not reveal; it looks like washing in Jordan to cure a Leprosie: But the Life of Faith is a Mystery known only unto them in whom it is.

2. IT will fix the Soul unto that Object which is suited to give it Delight, Complacency, and Satisfaction. This in perfection is Blessedness, for it is caused by the Eternal Vision of the Glory of God in Christ: And the nearer Approaches we make unto this State, the better, the more Spiritual, the more Heavenly is the State of our Souls. And this is to be obtained only by a constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, as hath been declared. And it is several ways effectual unto the end now proposed. For,