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

The power of godliness will rule over the tongue, though a world of iniquity. If one be a Galilean, his speech will bewray him, he'll not speak the language of Ashdod, but the language of Canaan. He will neither be dumb in religion; nor will his tongue walk at random, seeing to the double guard nature hath given the tongue, grace hath added a third: The fruits of holiness will be found in his outward conversation, for he hath clean hands, as well as a pure heart, Psal. xxiv. 4. He is a godly man, and religiously discharges the duties of the first table of the law: he is a righteous man, and honestly performs the duties of the second table. In his conversation he is a good Christian, and a good neighbour too. He carries it towards God, as if men's eyes were upon him; and towards men, as believing God's eye to be upon him. These things which God hath joined, in his law, he dare not, in his practice, put asunder.

Thus the branches of Christ are full of good fruits. And those fruits are a cluster, of vital actions, whereof Jesus Christ is the principle and end: the principle: for he lives in them, and the life they live, is by the saith of the Son of God, Gal. i. 20. The end, for they live to him, and to them to live is Christ, Philip i. 21. The duties of religion are in the world, like fatherless children▪ in rags: some will not take them in, because they never loved them nor their Father: […] take them in, because they may be serviceable to them: but the saints take them in for their Father's sake; that is, for Christ's sake; and they are lovely in their eyes, because they are like him […] is the new life of the […] surely ⟨p. 201⟩it could never have been hammered out of the natural powers of their souls, by the united force of all created power. In eternal barrenness should their womb have been shut up; but that being married to Christ they "bring forth fruit unto God.'