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

A Fourth benefit is Sanctification, 1 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification. Being united to Christ, they partake of his Spirit, which is the Spirit of holiness. There is a fullness of the Spirit in Christ, and it is not like the fullness of a vessel, which only retains what is poured into it; but it is the fullness of a fountain for diffusion and communication, which is always sending forth its water, and yet is always full. The Spirit of Christ, that spiritual sap, which is in the stock, and from thence is communicate to the branches, is the Spirit of grace, Zec. xii. 10: And where the Spirit of grace dwells, there will be found a complication of all graces. Holiness is not one grace only, but all the graces of the Spirit: it is a constellation of graces; it is all the graces in their seed and root. And as the sap conveyed from the stock into the branch, goes through' it, and through' every part of it; so the Spirit of God sanctifies the whole man. The poison of sin was diffused through the whole spirit, soul and body of the man; and sanctifying grace pursues it into every corner, 1 Thess. v. 23. Every part of the man is sanctified, though no part is perfectly so. The truth we are sanctified by, is not held in the head, as in a prison: but runs, with its sanctifying influences, through heart and life. There are indeed some graces in every believer, which appear as top-branches above the rest: as meekness in Moses, patience in Job: but seeing there is in every child of God, a holy principle going along with the holy law, in all the parts thereof, loving, liking, and approving of it; as appears from their universal respect to the commands of God: it is evident they are endued with all the graces of the Spirit; because there can be no more in the effect, than there was in the cause.

A Fourth benefit is Sanctification, 1 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification. Being united to Christ, they partake of his Spirit, which is the Spirit of holiness. There is a fulness of the Spirit in Christ, and it is not like the fulness of a vessel, which only retains what is poured into it; but it is the fulness of a fountain for diffusion and communication, which is always sending forth its water, and yet is always full. The Spirit of Christ, that spiritual sap, which is in the stock, and from thence is communicate to the branches, is the Spirit of grace,