Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

This doth he who hath communion with Christ; he watcheth §. 22 diligently over his own heart, that nothing creep into it's Affections to give it any peace or establishment before God, but Christ only. When ever that question is to be answered, wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and appear before the high God? he doth not gather up, this or that I will do, or here and there I will watch and amend my ways; but instantly he cries in the Lord Jesus, have I ^bRighteousness? all my desire is to be found in him, not having on my own Righteousness.

This doth he who hath communion with Christ; he watcheth §. 22 diligently over his own heart, that nothing creep into it's Affections to give it any peace or establishment before God, but Christ only. When ever that question is to be answered, wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and appeare before the high God? he doth not gather up, this or that I will doe, or here and there I will watch and amend my ways; but instantly he crys in the Lord Jesus, have I ^bRighteousnesse? all my desire is to be found in him, not having on my own Righteousnesse.

1. bIsa. 45. 24. Phil. 3. 9. Hab. 2. 1, 4.

2. In cherishing that Spirit, that Holy Comforter which Christ sends to us; to abide with us in his room, and stead: He tells us that he sends him to that purpose Joh. 16. 7. he gives him to us, Vicariam navarre operam, saith Tertullian, to abide with us for ever, for all those ends and purposes which he hath to fulfil towards us, and upon us; He gives him to dwell in us, to keep us and preserve us blameless for himself; his name is in him, and with him; and it is upon his account that whatever is done to any of Christs, is done to him, because it is done to them in whom he is and dwells by his spirit. Now herein do the Saints preserve their conjugal affections entire to Christ, that they