Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

3. It is a change into the likeness of God, 2 Cor iii. 18. We— beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image. Every thing that generates, generates its like: the child bears the image of the parent; and they that are born of God, bear God's image. Man aspiring to be as God, made himself like the devil. In his natural state he resembles the devil, as a child doth the father, John viii 44. Ye are of your father the devil. But when this happy change comes, the image of Satan is defaced, and the image of God restored. Christ himself, who is the brightness of his Father's glory, is the pattern, after which the new creature is made, Rom. viii 29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son Hence he is said to be conformed in the regenerate, Gal. iv. 19.

3. It is a change into the likeness of God, 2 Cor iii. 18. We— beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image. Every thing that generates, generates its like: the child bears the image of the parent; and they that are born of God, bear God's image. Man aspiring to be as God, made himself like the devil. In his natural state he resembles the devil, as a child doth the father, John viii 44. Ye are of your father the devil. But when this happy change comes, the image of Satan is defaced, and the image of God restored. Christ himself, who is the brightness of his Father's glory, is the pattern, after which the new creature is made, Rom. viii 29. For whom he did for•know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son Hence he is said to be conformed in the regenerate, Gal. iv. 19.

4 It is an universal change; all things become new, 2 Cor. vi. 17. It is a blest leaven that leavens the whole lump, the whole spirit, and soul and body. Original sin infects the whole man; and regenerating grace, which is the salve, goes as far as the sore. This fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness; goodness of the mind, goodness of the will, goodness of the affections, goodness of the whole man One gets not only a new head to know religion, or a new tongue to talk of it; but a new heart to love and embrace it, in the whole of his conversation. When the Lord opens the sluice of grace on the soul's new birthday, the waters run through the whole man, to purify and make him fruitful. In these natural changes spoken of before, there are, as it were, pieces of new cloth put into an old garment; a new life sewed to an old heart: but the gracious change is a thorough change, a change both of heart and life.