The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Now there are seven Considerations that I shall propound by way of Motive, to stir up your souls to make a blessed improvement of the grace and gifts you have received.

Now there are seven Considerations that I shall propound by way of Motive, to stir up your soules to make a blessed improvement of the grace and gifts you have received.

And the first is this, Seriously consider, that the exercise and improvement of grace in your souls, will be more and more the death and ruin of sin in your souls.

And the first is this, Seriously consider, that the exercise and improvement of grace in your soules, will be more and more the death and ruine of sin in your soules.

Take it from experience, There is not a choicer way then this, for a man to bring under the power of his sin, then to keep up the exercise of his grace. Sin and Grace are like two Buckets at a Well, when one is up, the other is down: They are like the two Laurels at Rome, when one flourishes, the other withers. Certainly the readiest, and the surest way to bring under the power of sin, is, to be much in the exercise of grace, Rom. 8. 10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin, but the spirit is life, because of righteousness. The life and activity of Christ and grace in the soul, is the death and destruction of sin in the soul: The more ⟨p. 193⟩grace acts in the soul, the more sin withers and dyes in the soul; the stronger the house of David grew,