Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

were he a spiritual King ruling over his lusts, he would and must confess himself under the kingdom of Christ, and to hold all his power from thence, or else Mene, Mene, his kingdom is numbered, and divided among lusts and devils. St. Paul saith, I live, but immediately ⟨p. 177⟩he calls it back again, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, Gal. 2.20. well knowing that all his grace had its being from the true Immanuel, Jesus Christ, and its continuance from the continual influxes of his spirit, which are in a sober sense a kind of Immanuel, God with us, strengthening graces where they are weak, quickening where they are dead, upholding where they are falling, and by an incessant spiration influencing Being into them, that they may not vanish into nothing.

were he a spiritual King ruling over his lusts, he would and must confess himself under the kingdom of Christ, and to hold all his power from thence, or else Mene, Mene, his kingdom is numbred, and divided among lusts and devils. St. Paul saith, I live, but immediately ⟨p. 177⟩he calls it back again, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, Gal. 2.20. well knowing that all his grace had its being from the true Immanuel, Jesus Christ, and its continuance from the continual influxes of his spirit, which are in a sober sense a kind of Immanuel, God with us, strengthening graces where they are weak, quickning where they are dead, upholding where they are falling, and by an incessant spiration influencing Being into them, that they may not vanish into nothing.

As to the opposite, sin, the believer sees more of the sinfulness of sin, and yet more of the holy God about it then others do. He sees more of the sinfulness of sin then others. Next to Christ, who weighed sin upon the cross, he of all men knows best how to weigh it; the natural man may put in the breach of the Law into the scale, but he puts in all the bloody aggravations, the suffocated light, and abused love, the quenchings of the spirit, and the rejections of Christ, the broken vows and lying promises of obedience, the stabs of conscience, and warning pieces of wrath, the measures of delight and obstinacy in sin, and the heaps of guilt in reiterated sinning, no man makes sin so sinful as he; the pure light of faith being up in the heart, every scarlet thread in the contexture thereof becomes visible; and yet after all this, the believer sees more of the holy God about it then others do, and that whether he look on the