The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

as it acts us to good works, tis the spirit of obedience; as it infuseth habits of grace, so tis the spirit of sanctification; as it assists us continually, and guides us to our end, and witnesseth favour, tis the spirit of adoption; as it works fears of death and hell, tis the spirit of bondage; but as it draws us from sin to Christ, so tis the spirit of union: and therefore to imagine union before and without faith by the Spirit, is but a spirit indeed, which when you come to feel it, you shall find it a nothing, without flesh, or bones, or sinews. As our marriage union to Christ must have consent of faith on our part, wrought by the Spirit, or else the Lord Jesus is a vain suitor to us; so now the Spirit on Christs part must apprehend our faith, ⟨p. 113⟩and dwell in us, who otherwise shall suddenly go a whoring from him: 1 Pet. 1.5. Eph. 3.17.

as it acts us to good works, tis the spirit of obedience; as it infuseth habits of grace, so tis the spirit of sanctification; as it assists us continually, and guides us to our end, and witnesseth favour, tis the spirit of adoption; as it works feares of death and hell, tis the spirit of bondage; but as it drawes us from sinne to Christ, so tis the spirit of union: and therefore to imagine union before and without faith by the Spirit, is but a spirit indeed, which when you come to feele it, you shall finde it a nothing, without flesh, or bones, or sinewes. As our marriage union to Christ must have consent of faith on our part, wrought by the Spirit, or else the Lord Jesus is a vaine sutor to us; so now the Spirit on Christs part must apprehend our faith, ⟨p. 113⟩and dwell in us, who otherwise shall suddenly goe a whoring from him: 1 Pet. 1.5. Eph. 3.17.