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

Nothing like unto that pure genuine consent which is in true Believers, who choose and set their hearts upon Christ, as seeing the excellency of his Person, usefulness of his Offices, rectitude of his Precepts, preciousness ⟨p. 51⟩of his Promises, and greatness of his Rewards; the intimate bias and bent of their hearts is such, that leaving the world behind their back, they embrace and fall in with their dear Jesus above all things.

Nothing like unto that pure genuine consent which is in true Believers, who chuse and set their hearts upon Christ, as seeing the excellency of his Person, usefulness of his Offices, rectitude of his Precepts, preciousness ⟨p. 51⟩of his Promises, and greatness of his Rewards; the intimate biass and bent of their hearts is such, that leaving the world behind their back, they embrace and fall in with their dear Jesus above all things.

Moreover, This consent is a present actual one; in Marriage there are words used, not de futuro, but de praesenti, or else it is no Marriage, but a promise only. Believers do not say as the sluggard, yet a little sleep, a little slumber in sin; nor as St. Austin in his delays before conversion did, modo ecce modo; but they give a present consent to Christ; when he knocks, they say not, go and come again to morrow (for that is not to consent to day, nay, not to consent at all, but only to speak of it) but they make haste and delay not, immediately they open and own him as their Lord; he is their greatest desire, and they will not put him off, no, not for a world, which is much less in their eyes than he is: They have to their great shame too long served their corruptions, now they join themselves unto him in a perpetual covenant never to be forgotten; without any more ado a present actual consent is given to him. It is indeed said by Divines, that the true desires of Grace are Grace; and so they are: but then those desires do at ⟨p. 52⟩