Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Now I shall teach thee to know, whether the Spirit be in thee or no, by two of its effects or properties; the first will be more general, the second more special.

1. The Spirit of God if it be in thee, will purify thee, for it is a purifying Spirit. Sanctification is the proper work of the Spirit of Christ. It is called the holy Ghost; and it is holy not only subjectively, but effectively; ⟨p. 157⟩it worketh holiness, and makes men holy, 1 Cor. 6.11. It infuseth holy habits and principles into the soul, whereby it is enabled to fight with, and by degrees to foil its corruptions; It changeth the understanding by illumination, the will by renovation, and the affections by sanctification; it doth not infuse new faculties into the soul, but it doth renew the old; it turneth the same waters into another Channel; they ran before after the world and the flesh, but now after God and his ways; It is as it were the same viol, only it is new tuned; before it could make no music in praying or singing, but now it is so melodious, that it delighteth the heart, and ravisheth the ear of God himself. The old Moon and the new are the same, only the new hath a new endowment of light from the Sun, which it had not before; so it is here, the purified person is the same man he was before, only he hath a new endowment of the light of holiness, which he had not before. Now thus the Spirit ever worketh where it dwelleth; it is therefore called a river of living waters, John 7.37. not a pond of dead, but a river of living waters; a pond will suffer dirt and mud to continue ⟨p. 158⟩in it without opposition; but a river of living waters purgeth out, and casteth up its mire and dirt, its foam and scum,