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

They grow inward, growing into Christ, (Eph. iv. 15) uniting more closely with him; and cleaving more firmly to him, as the head of influences, which is the spring of all other true Christian growth. They grow outward, in good works in their life and conversation. They not only, with Naphtali, give goodly words; but, like Joseph, they are fruitful bought. They grow upward in heavenly-mindedness, and contempt of the world; for their conversation is in heaven, Philip. iii 20. And finally, they grow downward in humility and self-loathing. The branches of the largest growth in Christ, are in their own eyes, less than the least of all saints, Eph. iii. 8. The chief of sinners, 1 Tim i 15. More brutish than any man, Prov. xxx. 2. They see, they can do nothing, no not so much as to think any thing, as of themselves, 2 Cor iii 5 that they deserve nothing, being not worthy of the least of all the mercies showed unto them, Gen. xxxii. 10. and that they are nothing, 2 Cor. xii. 2

They grow inward, growing into Christ, (Eph. iv. 15) uniting more closely with him; and cleaving more firmly to him, as the head of influences, which is the spring of all other true Christian growth. They grow outward, in good works in their life and conversation. They not only, with Naphtali, give goodly words; but, like Joseph, they are fruitful bought. They grow upward in heavenly-mindedness, and contempt of the world; for their conversation is in heaven, Philip. iii 20. And finally, they grow downward in humility and self-lothing. The branches of the largest growth in Christ, are in their own eyes, less than the least of all saints, Eph. iii. 8. The chief of sinners, 1 Tim i 15. More brutish than any man, Prov. xxx. 2. They see, they can do nothing, no not so much as to think any thing, as of themselves, 2 Cor iii 5 that they deserve nothing, being not worthy of the least of all the mercies shewed unto them,