Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, He yields up his soul to Christ as the meritorious cause of vivification. Christ merited all graces for us, saith doth not dare to go immediately to God, no not for holiness it self, but it goes and sucks at the breasts of Christs humanity, well knowing that all graces are from the spirit, and the way of the spirit is by the blood, as Tagmon Archbishop of Magdeburg took the last breath of his dying Master Wolfgang by applying mouth to mouth; so faith applies its mouth as it were to the wounds of a dying Christ, from thence to receive the spirit of all grace; that love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, as so many rivers of living water, may flow in the heart, to make glad the habitation of God therein, that the holy spirit may be as it were the soul of the soul, breathing in the believers prayers, ⟨p. 107⟩and shining on his Bible, and melting in his charity, and empowering in his infirmity, and honey-dropping in his converses, and being a Shechinah, a presence and a glory in all his ways.

Secondly, He yields up his soul to Christ as the meritorious cause of vivisication. Christ merited all graces for us, saith doth not dare to go immediately to God, no not for holiness it self, but it goes and sucks at the breasts of Christs humanity, well knowing that all graces are from the spirit, and the way of the spirit is by the blood, as Tagmon Archbishop of Magdenburg took the last breath of his dying Master Wolfgang by applying mouth to mouth; so faith applies its mouth as it were to the wounds of a dying Christ, from thence to receive the spirit of all grace; that love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, as so many rivers of living water, may flow in the heart, to make glad the habitation of God therein, that the holy spirit may be as it were the soul of the soul, breathing in the believers prayers, ⟨p. 107⟩and shining on his Bible, and melting in his charity, and impowering in his infirmity, and honey-dropping in his converses, and being a Shechinah, a presence and a glory in all his ways.