Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

There is a supply of the Holy Spirit from Christ unto Believers; he is made sanctification to them; he lives in them; there is an effectual working in every one of them; and all this is by the Spirit communicated from him the Root and Head of all Grace. Hence he tells us, that the rivers of living water flow in the Believer, Joh. 7.38.

The supply of the Spirit from Christ unto Believers,¹ doth ever continue in some ⟨p. 157⟩measure; it's true, it doth not ever continue as to the accessories of Grace; but it ever continues as to the vitals and essentials of it; it doth not keep them from all acts of sin, but under their greatest falls it ever upholds a state of grace and spiritual life in them: They may fall, and that grievously; yet still there is a lamp, the habits and principles of Grace are not extinct in them; He that is born of God cannot sin, 1 Joh. 3.9. That is, he cannot sin so as to unframe the new creature; he cannot sin so, as to lose the remaining seed in him; the Reason is, because the Spirit continues to bear him up in a state of Grace. This continuance of the Spirit is upon a double account, the one is the durable foundation of it; the communication of the Spirit is founded upon the satisfactory and meritorious sufferings of Christ; there is an endless life of merit in him; his blood is of an eternal efficacy: Hence the supplies of the Spirit procured thereby, never fail. Very remarkable is the difference between the case of Adam and the case of Believers; in him one act of sin drove out a stock of pure holiness; in them many sins do not drive out their imperfect graces; the Reason is, their graces respect a great foundation, an infinite treasure of merit, which moves the ⟨p. 156⟩[…] ⟨p. 157⟩