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There be three properties or qualities of life.¹

1. 1Three properties of life. 1. Warmth

First, where ever there is life, there is some warmth, 2 King. 9.34. when the Prophet had lain upon the child, and had done so seven times, at length the breath of the child began to wax warm, a sign that life was a restoring, and thereby the Prophet discerned that life began to return into the body of the child, because warmth returned; and so is the presence of the Spirit of grace, and the union of it with the soul and body of a man, it makes a man fervent, and warm; Fervent in spirit. Rom. 12.11 and therefore it is that it is resembled unto fire, Matth. 3.11 The Holy Ghost shall come down upon you, as it were with fiery tongues, and shall warm and heat you, with whatever duties God shall call you to, 1 Thes. 5.19. Quench not the Spirit; now quenching belongs to fire, a sign therefore that the spirit is of a fervent nature, so far forth as it is capable of any quenching and destroying by the Sons of men, and 2 Tim. 1.6. Stir up the gifts of grace in you; as if ye stirred up the embers of the fire, so stir up, and kindle the gifts of God which is in you, blow them up into a kindling ⟨p. 145⟩flame, so that all these things express thus much: That since the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus and from him, communicated to his Members is a spirit of heat, therefore wheresoever there is warmth there is life, if no warmth, nor heat, there is no life; and as our spirits begin to wax warm, so we grow to life in Christianity. Notable is that expression in