The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Lastly, The fifth Effect of the life of righteousness it is this. Where ever there is the life of righteousness, there are all the fruits of the Spirit in some part, and in some measure begun in them. The life of righteousness it is not the springing up of one grace, but it is the quickening of the whole body of grace in us; the whole frame of holiness, it is begun in them that have the life of righteousness; there are all the fruits of the Spirit to be found in that soul. What they are you may read in Gal. 5.22. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance, &c. I say, there are all the fruits of the Spirit begun in that soul; so that there ⟨p. 66⟩is no grace that the word of God calleth for, that Christ hath, that the Saints of God ever showed forth, but he that hath the life of righteousness can discern it in some measure begun, or beginning in himself. Take the lowest and meanest Christian of all others, if he have the life of righteousness, he can find in himself (if he do not judge falsely) at least the buddings and blossomings of the fruits of the Spirit of God, of that which God requireth of his children. By the beginnings and buddings of grace, I mean, First, a discerning of the wants of grace; for usually the first work of grace is a discerning of the want of grace: The first work of the grace of humility, is a discerning of the want of humility; the first work of the grace of Faith, is a discerning of the want of Faith, &c. So that there is, I say, a discerning of the want of such and such graces, but that is not all; hypocrites may sometime see the want of grace, but there is together with a discerning of the want of grace, an apprehension of the excellency of grace, a hungering and thirsting after the getting of it, a high valuing of those that have it, and a constant use of the Ordinances for the obtaining of it.

Lastly, The fifth Effect of the life of righteousness it is this. Where ever there is the life of righteousness, there are all the fruits of the Spirit in some part, and in some measure begun in them. The life of righteousness it is not the springing up of one grace, but it is the quickning of the whole body of grace in us; the whole frame of holiness, it is begun in them that have the life of righteousness; there are all the fruits of the Spirit to be found in that soul. What they are you may read in