Influences of the life of grace

Prop. ¹3. For the branches of enlargedness of heart; there is a fullness of the holy Ghost, in the Baptist, in Steven, which was not a transient disposition, but a permanent habit; but this breaks out in something more then an habit. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson in mighty influences, when he broke the cords, and carried away the ports of the City. Psal. 45. 1. My heart is inditing a good matter; like a boiling and seething pot, and that puts him to speak of the King. Elihu, Job 32. 18. I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19. Behold, my belly is as new wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. There was a heavenly spring, a new fountain broken up in him, and excellently beyond all the ⟨p. 282⟩friends he pleads for the Lord his sovereignty. O what fullness above measure above his fellows was in the man Christ! the law was in his heart, and the fullness of grace; and (as it were) to overtake the running over well, he takes whole nights to prayer; and for Preaching and working miracles, he hath not leisure to sleep or eat. If there be a fire in Jeremiah's bowels, what wonder then prophesying flame out of his mouth, and he confess he was weary with forbearing, Jer. 20. and God obtains his holy end. The people are warned of their sin, when Micah saith in opposition to the empty Prophets, Micah 3. 6. But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might; and that fullness fetches influences from heaven, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. This condemns the cold, indifferent, and dead actions of many, who are far from that, whatsoever ye do, do [Greek or Hebrew], from the heart or soul, which says some duties are soul-less actions, and actions dead without heart and soul. Isaiah would have us,² if we fast aright, to give bread; and not that only,