Secondly, as it gives a strength and an excellent quality above nature, so it adds unto it holiness, that is, it puts a tincture of goodness upon all your actions, it warmeth the gifts of the mind, and puts the heart in a frame of grace: many men have a kind of strength but they want holiness and sanctification with it; Now a man is said to be a holy man, when the soul is separated and divided from things that are contrary to its salvation and happiness, and joined, And then joined and united unto Christ wholly and totally. Then, and not until then is a man a true holy man, it is with a holy man in this case, as it is with a spouse, she is separated from others and united to her husband, are joined to the Spirit, have holiness with it, and separated from sin. The vessels in the time of the Law they were holy vessels, because they were appointed to Gods worship, in like manner when the Spirit comes into the heart, it sanctifies it and makes him a holy man by making him in all his aims and ends to pitch upon Gods glory; And this can no man do ⟨p. 95⟩till the spirit of Christ be his. In Cant. 6. 3. The Church 1saith I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine. That is because he is my husband, and I am his spouse, therefore I will labour to be like him in holiness. And our Saviour prayeth for this holiness for his Disciples, In Joh. 17. 17. 2Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is Truth. That is, the word is the means to work holiness in them: when they want holiness they want all things, for when profit and pleasure comes, then the Spirit of holiness is as it were plucked from them: but when they have the Spirit, then they see the vanity of these earthly things, & therefore it is that men are deceived with false and counterfeit wares, because they want the Spirit of discerning: but when the Spirit of God comes into the heart of a Christian, then it shows him the vanity of these things, and this he doth by enlightening the mind; and therefore it is that they are kept from playing the Adulteresses with these things, because they have the Spirit of discerning.
Secondly, as it gives a strength and an excellent qualitie above nature, so it adds unto it holiness, that is, it puts a tincture of goodness upon all your actions, it warmeth the gifts of the minde, and puts the heart in a frame of grace: many men have a kind of strength but they want holiness and sanctification with it; Now a man is said to be a holy man, when the soul is separated and divided from things that are contrarie to its salvation and happiness, and joyned, And then joyned and united unto Christ wholly and totally. Then, and not until then is a man a true holy man, it is with a holy man in this case, as it is with a spouse, she is separated from others and united to her husband, are joyned to the Spirit, have holiness with it, and separated from sin. The vessels in the time of the Law they were holy vessels, because they were appointed to Gods worship, in like maner when the Spirit comes into the heart, it sanctifies it and makes him a holy man by making him in all his aims and ends to pitch upon Gods glory; And this can no man do ⟨p. 95⟩till the spirit of Christ be his. In Cant. 6. 3. The Church 1saith I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine. That is because he is my husband, and I am his spouse, therefore I will labour to be like him in holiness. And our Saviour prayeth for this holiness for his Disciples, In Ioh. 17. 17. 2Sanctifie them through thy truth, thy word is Truth. That is, the word is the means to work holiness in them: when they want holiness they want all things, for when profit and pleasure comes, then the Spirit of holiness is as it were plucked from them: but when they have the Spirit, then they see the vanitie of these earthly things, & therefore it is that men are deceived with false and counterfeit wares, because they want the Spirit of discerning: but when the Spirit of God comes into the heart of a Christian, then it shewes him the vanitie of these things, and this he doth by enlightning the mind; and therefore it is that they are kept from playing the Adulteresses with these things, because they have the Spirit of discerning.
- 1Cantic. 6. 3.
- 2John 17. 17:
