Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

First, It is congruous to the Majesty of God: He acts like himself, dispenses Grace to the Creature in its lowest posture of resignation: Heaven is my throne, Earth my footstool, saith he; but as over-looking all this World, To this man will I look that is poor and of a contrite spirit, Isa. 66.1, 2; To this man, there he sets a nobler creation than this outward one. When ⟨p. 285⟩Faith makes a man poor and contrite, sensibly lying in his own Nothingness and Unworthiness, then creating Grace comes upon him. We may see this as in a glass in the Humane Nature of Christ: That which had no natural Subsistence of its own but subsisted in the Eternal Word; that had the Spirit poured out upon it above measure. When a man hath no Moral subsistence of his own; his very Hypostasis being a resignation; when his subsistence is in the Word of God according to that of the Apostle, [Greek or Hebrew], Have thy being in these things, 1 Tim. 4.15. Then the holy Spirit comes down and dwells in him.

First, It is congruous to the Majesty of God: He acts like himself, dispences Grace to the Creature in its lowest posture of resignation: Heaven is my throne, Earth my footstool, saith he; but as over-looking all this World, To this man will I look that is poor and of a contrite spirit, Isa. 66.1, 2; To this man, there he sets a nobler creation than this outward one. When ⟨p. 285⟩Faith makes a man poor and contrite, sensibly lying in his own Nothingness and Unworthiness, then creating Grace comes upon him. We may see this as in a glass in the Homane Nature of Christ: That which had no natural Subsistence of its own but subsisted in the Eternal Word; that had the Spirit poured out upon it above measure. When a man hath no Moral subsistence of his own; his very Hypostasis being a resignation; when his subsistence is in the Word of God according to that of the Apostle, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Have thy being in these things,