The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

2. It is a renewing of the whole Man, 1 Thes. 5.23. For as every Part and Faculty of Man is corrupt by the first Adam, so they are renewed by the second Adam; not that we are perfectly renewed in this Life ⟨p. 218⟩by Christ, as we are corrupt by Adam, but in Part in every Faculty, Rom. 6.19. and from hence ariseth our spiritual Combat and Warfare with Sin, yea with all Sin; it is not because of our Sanctification simply (for if it were perfect, we should War and Wrestle no more;) but from the Imperfection of it. And this renewal in Part, is in every Part, even in the whole Man: And as the first Adam propagates Sin chiefly and radically in the Soul, especially into the Heart of Man; and from thence it diffuseth it self like Leaven into the whole Lump of our Lives, so the Lord Jesus chiefly communicates this Renewal into our Hearts, and thence it sweetens our Lives; and hence it is called the inner Man, Rom. 7.22. Eph. 3.16. You see a little Holiness in a Christian; I tell you, if he be of the right Make, there is a Kind of infinite endless Holiness within him from whence it springs, as there is a Kind of infinite endless Wickedness in a wicked Man, from whence his Sin spring: If a Man be outwardly holy, but not within, he is not sanctified, no more than the painted Sepulchres of the proud Pharisees; if any Man say his Heart is good, tho' he makes no Show in his Life, he speaks not the Truth, if the Apostle may be believed, 1 John 1.6. for Sanctification is the Renewal of the whole Man, within and without; it is not for a Man to have his Teeth white, his Tongue tipped, and his Nails pared; no, no, the Lord makes all new where he comes.

2. It is a renewing of the whole Man, 1 Thes. 5.23. For as every Part and Faculty of Man is corrupt by the first Adam, so they are renewed by the second Adam; not that we are perfectly renewed in this Life