Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

nay, take him even in natural actions, the believer (when himself) cats, and drinks, and sees, and hears, and speaks, and sleeps, and wakes, and walks after another rate then other men, doing all under the Law of Christ; that's a knife at his throat, a covering to his eyes, a stopper to his cars, a bridle on his lips, when he sleepeth, that keeps him, when he waketh, that talks with him, when he walketh, that leads him; the kingdom of heaven, which is not meat or drink or any such thing, is by faith brought down into all these. The genius of faith is to be ruled by Christ in all things.

Secondly, This resignation in and through the Mediator, is made to God, I say, in and through the Mediator; because without him, we can expect to be ruled by God in no other way then by the iron rod of his power and justice, dashing us in pieces to all eternity; but in and through him, the believer may and doth yield up himself to God to be ruled. And here he makes use of two Attributes, Gods sovereignty, and Gods holiness; God is the supreme Lord, and must be obeyed; he is the holy one, and must be sanctified in each command: the beams of his majesty and holiness sparkle out, and these faith takes in to melt the heart into a compliance with the divine will. Plato being asked by one of his Scholars, how long his precepts were to be obeyed, answered, Donec in terris apparuerit sacratior aliquis, qui sontem veritatis aperiat, the believer desires to be ruled by God, because an higher and holier cannot come.

Secondly, This resignation in and through the Mediator, is made to God, I say, in and through the Mediator; because without him, we can expect to be ruled by God in no other way then by the iron rod of his power and justice, dashing us in pieces to all eternity; but in and through him, the believer may and doth yield up himself to God to be ruled. And here he makes use of two Attributes, Gods soveraignty, and Gods holiness; God is the supream Lord, and must be obeyed; he is the holy one, and must be sanctified in each command: the beams of his majesty and holiness sparkle out, and these faith takes in to melt the heart into a compliance with the divine will. Plato being asked by one of his Scholars, how long his precepts were to be obeyed, answered, Donec in terris apparuerit sacratior aliquis, qui sontem veritatis aperiat, the believer desires to be ruled by God, because an higher and holier cannot come.