Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, He yields up his soul to Christ as the meritorious cause of mortification. Christs death merited sins; hence faith glories in the cross of Christ, as in that whereby the world is crucified to the believer, and he to the world, Gal. 6.14. there it would hang up every lust as an accursed thing. Faith lies at the bleeding wounds of Christ, watching for the breathings of that spirit, which can mortify the deeds of the body, waiting for that mind of Christ which can make us suffer in the flesh, that we may cease from sin. Christ was crucified, and the believer would have the old man crucified together, he would dye with him as the graft doth with the stock. There is a Popish fable, that the angry Adriatic Sea ⟨p. 105⟩was becalmed by one of the nails of Christs cross cast into it; the moral is true: the troubled sea of lust in our heart cannot be subdued but by the application of Christ death; the winds and waves there obey no other voice but that of Christ crucified, he yields up his soul to Christ as the royal worker of mortification. When he sees his lusts as so many rebels rising up in arms, he flies to his sovereign Christ for a power to subdue them: the high things and strong holds appearing in his understanding, make him cry out, Treason, Treason, the Jebusite is in the tower of David; the fleshly wisdom hath got into the understanding, O thou wisdom of God captivate and cast it down. The Pagan lusts and Gentile-wills showing themselves in the heart, force him to break forth like the Psalmist, O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy temple they have defiled, cast them out O thou mighty Saviour, that my soul may be a sanctuary for thy self. When the battle is set before and behind, corruptions surrounding and encompassing him, his eyes are upon his Lord sitting above at the right hand of power, till his enemies be made his footstool.

Secondly, He yields up his soul to Christ as the meritorious cause of mortification. Christs death merited sins; hence faith glories in the cross of Christ, as in that whereby the world is crucified to the believer, and he to the world, Gal. 6.14. there it would hang up every lust as an accursed thing. Faith lies at the bleeding wounds of Christ, watching for the breathings of that spirit, which can mortisie the deeds of the body, waiting for that mind of Christ which can make us suffer in the fiesh, that we may cease from sin. Christ was crucified, and the believer would have the old man crucified together, he would dye with him as the graft doth with the stock. There is a Popish fable, that the angry Adriatick Sea