Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

And as the believer yields up his foul to Christ for mortification of sin, so also for vivification of the soul. And this in the very same respects.

And as the believer yields up his foul to Christ for mortification of sin, so also for vivisication of the soul. And this in the very same respects.

First, He yields up his soul to Christ as the grand pattern of vivification; the parallel is the Apostles own, Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also ⟨p. 106⟩should walk in newness of life, Rom. 6.4. Look what was done in the flesh of Christ in his corporeal resurrection, that is done in the spirits of Christians in the spiritual resurrection: there the stone was rolled away from the sepulchre, here from the heart; there the flesh of Christ was raised up by an Almighty power, called by the Apostle, the glory of the Father; here the soul of the believer is raised up by the same power, as appears Eph. 1.19, 20. there after the corporeal resurrection, Christ appeared in humane lineaments; here after the spiritual resurrection, the Christian appears in divine graces: the genius of faith is to assimilate the Christian to Christ risen.

First, He yields up his soul to Christ as the grand pattern of vivisication; the parallel is the Apostles own, Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also ⟨p. 106⟩should walk in newness of life, Rom. 6.4. Look what was done in the flesh of Christ in his corporeal resurrection, that is done in the spirits of Christians in the spiritual resurrection: there the stone was rolled away from the sepulchre, here from the heart; there the flesh of Christ was raised up by an Almighty power, called by the Apostle, the glory of the Father; here the soul of the believer is raised up by the same power, as appears