The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

2. This Faith is the true and proper product of the Spirit in our Regeneration: that which i• begotten and brought forth in us, is Faith: all that is before it in the Soul, is only preparatory unto it; all that is concomitant with it, is denominated from it; all Grace in us, is called Faith in Scripture, because that is the principal Grace wrought in us. Gods Elect are by nature dead, but the Spirit quickens them, Eph. 2. beginning. and how doth he so? why by causing them to believe: for the life of Regeneration is properly a life of Faith, Gal. 2. 20. I live by the Faith of the Son of God; so that when by the operation of the Spirit in him, a man is made to believe, he is then and not till then born of God, he is then also married to Christ; Christ marries with ⟨p. 14⟩none that are dead; he finds them indeed spiritually dead when he comes to them; but he first quickens them by his Grace, causing them to believe, and so to live, and as such he takes them into this nearness of relation to himself, and so they are together and at once born of God, and espoused to Jesus Christ.

2. This Faith is the true and proper product of the Spirit in our Regeneration: that which i• begotten and brought forth in us, is Faith: all that is before it in the Soul, is onlie preparatory unto it; all that is concomitant with it, is denominated from it; all Grace in us, is called Faith in Scripture, because that is the principal Grace wrought in us. Gods Elect are by nature dead, but the Spirit quickens them, Eph. 2. beginning. and how doth he so? why by causing them to believe: for the life of Regeneration is properly a life of Faith, Gal. 2. 20. I live by the Faith of the Son of God; so that when by the operation of the Spirit in him, a man is made to believe, he is then and not till then born of God, he is then also married to Christ; Christ marries with ⟨p. 14⟩