let it not be a question with your selves whether you have a mind to be saved or no. This is as good a time and season for a Resolution as ever you are like to have whilst in this World Some things nay many things may fall in between this and the next opportunity that shall put you backward and make your entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven far more difficult than ever it was and the living in that uncertainty at best which you do of what will become of you unto Eternity is the most miserable kind of Life in the World Those who put far from them the evil day and live in the pursuit of lusts and pleasures have somewhat that gives them present satisfaction and they say not There is no hope because they find the Life of the hand But you have nothing that gives you any prevalent Refreshment neither will your latter end be better than theirs if you dye without an Interest in Christ Jesus Come therefore at length unto a determinate Resolution what you will do in this matter Christ hath waited long for you and who knows how soon he may withdraw never to look after you any more UPON occasion of the preceding Discourse concerning the Glory of Christ I thought it necessary to add unto it this brief Exhortation unto Faith in him aiming to suit it unto the Capacity of the meanest Sinner that is capable of any self-consideration as unto his Eternal Welfare But yet a little further to give efficacy unto this Exhortation it will be necessary to remove some of those common and obvious Tergiversations that convinced Sinners do usually betake themselves unto to put off a present compliance with the calls of Christ to come unto him for although it is Unbelief alone acting in the darkness of mens minds and the obstinacy of their Wills that effectually keeps off Sinners from coming unto Christ upon his Call yet it shrouds it self under various pretences that it may not appear in it's own ugly Form for no Sin whereof Men can be guilty of in this World is of so horrible a Nature and so dreadful an Aspect as is this Unbelief where a clear view of it is obtained in Evangelical Light wherefore by the aid of Satan it suggests other pleas and pretences unto the Minds of Sinners under which they may countenance themselves in a Refusal to come to Christ see 2 Cor. 4. 4. Any thing else it shall be but not Unbelief that they all disavow I shall therefore speak unto a few of those Tergiversations in this case which are obvious and which are exemplified in the Gospel it self I. SOME do say on such Exhortations What is it that you would have us to do We hear the Word preached we believe it as well as we can we do many things willingly and abstain from many evils diligently what is more required of us This is the Language of the Hearts of the most with whom in this Case we have to do And I say 1. IT is usual with them who do something in the ways of God but not all they should and so nothing in a due manner to expostulate about requiring of them more than they do So the People dispute with God himself Mal. 1. 6. Chap. 3. 8 13. So they in the Gospel who esteemed themselves to have done their Duty being pressed unto Faith by Christ Jesus ask him with some Indignation What shall we do that we might work the work of God John 6. 28. If what we do be not enough what is it that you require more of us So was it with the Young Man Mat. 19. 20. What do I lack yet Be advised therefore not to be too confident of your State left you should yet lack that one thing the want whereof might prove your Eternal Ruine 2. THE things mentioned with all of the like nature which may be multiplied may be where there is no one spark of saving Faith Simon Magus heard the Word and believed as well as he could Herod heard it and did many things gladly and all sorts of Hypocrites do upon their Convictions perform many duties and abstain from many sins so as that notwithstanding this plea you may perish for ever 3. WHERE these things are sincere they belong unto the exercise of Faith they may be after a sort without Faith but Faith cannot be without them But there is a fundamental Act of Faith whereby we close with Christ whereby we receive him that is in order of Nature antecedent unto it's actings in all other Duties and Occasions it is laying the foundation other things belong to the building This is that you are called on to secure and you may know it by these two Properties 1. It is Singular So our Saviour tells the Jews Joh. 6. 29. This is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent The Act Work or Duty of Faith in the receiving of Christ is a peculiar singular Work wherein the Soul yields especial obedience unto God It is not to be reckoned unto such common Duties as those mentioned but the Soul must find out wherein it hath in a singular manner closed with Christ upon the Command of God 2. IT is accompanied with an universal Spiritual Change in the whole Soul 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new Wherefore if you would not chuse rather to deceive and ruine your own Souls come to the tryal whether indeed you have received Christ in such a singular transforming act of Faith do not on such pretences want a compliance with the word of Exhortation proposed unto you But II. SOME will say they know not how to proceed in this Work They can make nothing of it they have tryed to come to this believing but do still fail in what they design they go on and off but can make no progress can come to no satisfaction therefore they think it best to let things go in general as they are without putting themselves to farther trouble as unto any especial Act of Faith in the receiving of Christ. This is the language of Mens Hearts though not of their mouths another shelter of Unbelief and they act accordingly they have a secret Despondency which keeps them safe from attempting a real closure with Christ on the tender of the Gospel Something may be offered unto this distempered frame of Mind 1. REMEMBER the Disciples that were fishing and had toiled all night but caught nothing Luk. 5. 3 4 upon the coming of Christ unto them he requires that they should cast out their Nets once more Peter makes some excuse from the labour which they had taken in vain all Night however he would venture once more on the Command of Christ and had an astonishing draught of Fishes ver 5 6 7 8 9. Have you bin wearied with disappointments in your attempts and Resolutions yet cast in
true Believers and have mixed the Word with Faith and so it exhibiteth Christ and all the Benefits of his Mediation unto us If therefore this Word is in our Hearts Christ is nigh unto us If we turn at any time into our selves to converse with the Word that abideth in us there we shall find him ready to receive us into Communion with himself that is in the Light of the Knowledge of Christ which we have by the Word we may have sudden occasional Thoughts of him continually and where our Minds and Affections are so filled with other things that we are not ready for converse with him who is thus nigh unto us by the Word we are spiritually indisposed SO to manifest how nigh he is unto us it is said that he stands at the door and knocks Rev. 3. 20. in the continual tender that he makes of himself and his Grace unto our Souls For he is always accompanied with the glorious Train of his Graces and if they are not received he himself is not so It is to no purpose to boast of Christ if we have not an Evidence of his Graces in our Hearts and Lives But unto whom he is the Hope of Future Glory unto them he is the Life of present grace SOMETIMES it may be that he is withdrawn from us so as that we cannot hear his Voice nor behold his Countenance nor obtain any sence of his Love though we seek him with diligence In this state all our thoughts and Meditations concerning him will be barren and fruitless bringing in no spiritual Refreshment into our Souls And if we learn to be content with such lifeless in affecting thoughts of him as bring in no experience of his Love nor give us a real View of the Glory of his Person we shall wither away as unto all the power of Religion WHAT is our Duty in this Case is so fully expressed by the Spouse in the Canticles as represents it plainly unto the Minds of Believers who have any Experience of these things Chap. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. By night on my Bed I sought him whom my Soul loveth I sought him but I found him not I will rise now and go about the City in the Streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not The Watch-men that go about the City found me to whom I said saw ye him whom my soul loveth It was but a little I passed from them but I found him whom my soul loveth I held him and would not let him go The like account she gives of her self and of her Behaviour on the like Occasion Chap. 5. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. THIS is the substance of what by this Example we are instructed unto The Lord Christ is pleased sometimes to withdraw himself from the spiritual Experience of Believers as unto any refreshing sense of his Love or the fresh communications of consolatory Graces Those who never had Experience of any such thing who never had any refreshing communion with him cannot be sensible of his Absence they never were so of his Presence But those whom he hath visited to whom he hath given of his Loves with whom he hath made his Abode whom he hath refreshed relieved and comforted in whom he hath lived in the Power of his Grace they know what it is to be forsaken by him though but for a moment And their Trouble is increased when they seek him with diligence in the wonted ways of obtaining his presence and cannot find him Our Duty in this case is to presevere in our Enquiries after him in Prayer Meditation Mourning Reading and Hearing of the Word in all Ordinances of Divine Worship private and publick in diligent Obedience until we find him or he return unto us as in former Days IT were well if all Churches and Possessors now would manifest the same Diligence herein as did the Church of old in this Example Many of them if they are not hardened by the Deceitfulness of Sin cannot but be sensible that the Lord Christ is variously withdrawn from them if ever they had experience of the Power of his Presence Yet are the generality of them far from the frame of heart here described in the Spouse for they are slothful careless negligent and stir not up themselves to enquire after him or his return unto their Souls So was it with Laodicea of old so was it with Sardis and so it is to be feared that it is with many at present But to return GENERALLY Christ is nigh unto Believers and of a ready Access and the principal Actings of the Life of Faith consists in the frequency of our Thoughts concerning him for hereby Christ liveth in us as he is said to do Gal. 2. 20. This we cannot do unless we have frequent thoughts of him and converse with him It is often said among Men that one lives in another this cannot be but where the Affections of one are so ingaged unto another that night and day he thinks of him and is thereby as it were present with him So ought it to be between Christ and Believers He dwells in them by Faith but the Actings of this Life in them as where-ever Life is it will be in act and exercise are proportionable unto their Thoughts of him and Delight in him IF therefore we would behold the Glory of Christ the present direction is That on all occasions and frequently when there are no occasions for it by the performance of other Duties we would abound in thoughts of Him and his Glory I intend not at present fixed and stated Meditations which were spoken unto before but such Thoughts as are more transient according as our opportunities are And a great Rebuke it ought to be unto us when Christ hath at any time in a day been long out of our Minds The Spouse affirms That ere she was aware her soul made her as the Chariots of Amminadab Cant. 7. 12. It so fell out that when she had no thoughts no design or purpose for attendance or communion with Christ that she was surprised into a readiness and willingness unto it So will it be with them that love him in sincerity Their own Souls without previous designs or outward occasions will frequently engage them in holy thoughts of him which is the most eminent character of a truly spiritual Christian. 4. THE next Direction is That all our Thoughts concerning Christ and his Glory should be accompanied with Admiration Adoration and Thanksgiving For this is such an Object of our Thoughts and Affections as in this Life we can never fully comprehend an Ocean whose Depths we cannot look into If we are spiritually renewed all the Faculties of our Souls are enabled by Grace to exert their respective powers towards this glorious Object This must be done in various Duties by the Exercise of various Graces as they are to be acted by the distinct powers of the
Heaven AMONG the many other Differences which might be insisted on altho the greatest of them are unto us at present absolutely incomprehensible and so not to be enquired into I shall name two only and so put a close to this Discourse 1. IN the View which we have here of the Glory of Christ by Faith we gather things as it were one by one in several parts and parcels out of the Scripture and comparing them together in our Minds they become the Object of our present Sight which is our spiritual comprehension of the things themselves We have no proposal of the Glory of Christ unto us by Vision or illustrious appearance of his Person as Isaiah had of old Chap. 6. 1 2 3 4. or as John had in the Revelation Chap. 1. vers 13 14 15 16. We need it not it would be of no advantage unto us For as unto the assurance of our Faith we have a word of prophesie more useful unto us than a Voice from Heaven 2 Pet. 1. 17 18 19. And of those who received such Visions tho of eminent use unto the Church yet as unto themselves one of them cryed out Wo is me I am undone and the other fell as dead at his feet We are not able in this life to bear such glorious Representations of him unto our Edification AND as we have no such external proposals of his Glory unto us in Visions so neither have we any New Revelations of him by immediate inspiration We can see nothing of it know nothing of it but what is proposed unto us in the Scripture and that as it is proposed Nor doth the Scripture it self in any one place make an entire proposal of the Glory of Christ with all that belongs unto it nor is it capable of so doing nor can there be any such Representation of it unto our capacity on this side Heaven If all the Light of the Heavenly Luminaries had been contracted into one it would have been destructive not useful to our sight But being by Divine Wisdom distributed into Sun Moon and Stars each giving out his own Proportion it is suited to declare the Glory of God and to enlighten the World So if the whole Revelation of the Glory of Christ and all that belongs unto it had been committed into one series and contexture of Words it would have overwhelmed our Minds rather than enlightned us Wherefore God hath distributed the Light of it through the whole Firmament of the Books of the Old and New Testament whence it communicates it self by various parts and degrees unto the proper use of the Church In one place we have a description of his Person and the Glory of it sometimes in words plain and proper and sometimes in great variety of Allegories conveying an heavenly Sense of things unto the Minds of them that do believe In others of his Love and Condescention in his Office and his Glory therein His Humiliation Exaltation and Power are in like manner in sundry places represented unto us And as one Star differeth from another in Glory so it was one way whereby God represented the Glory of Christ in Types and Shadows under the Old Testament and another wherein it is declared in the New Illustrious Testimonies upon all these things are planted up and down in the Scripture which we may collect as choice flowers in the Paradise of God for the SO the Spouse in the Canticles considered every part of the Person and Grace of Christ distinctly by it self and from them all concludes that he is altogether lovely Chap. 5. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. So ought we to do in our study of the Scripture to find out the Revelation of the Glory of Christ which is made therein as did the Prophets of old as unto what they themselves received by immediate Inspiration They searched diligently what the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should ensue 1 Pet. 1. 11 12. But this seeing of Christ by parts in the Revelation of him is one cause why we see him here but in part SOME suppose that by Chopping and Painting and Gilding they can make an Image of Christ that shall perfectly represent him to their Sences and carnal Affections from head to foot But they feed on ashes and have a lie in their right hand Jesus Christ is evidently crucified before our eyes in the Scripture Gal. 3. 1. So also is he evidently exalted and glorified therein And it is the Wisdom of Faith to gather into one these parcelled Descriptions that are given of him that they may be the Object of its View and Contemplation IN the Vision which we shall have above the whole Glory of Christ will be at once and always represented unto us and we shall be enabled in one act of the Light of Glory to comprehend it Here indeed we are at a loss our minds and understandings fail us in their Contemplations It will not yet enter into our hearts to conceive what is the beauty what is the Glory of this compleat Representation of Christ unto us To have at once all the Glory of what he is what he was in his outward State and Condition what he did and suffered what he is Exalted unto his Love and Condescention his Mystical Union with the Church and the Communication of himself unto it with the Recapitulation of all things in Him and the Glory of God even the Father in his Wisdom Righteousness Grace Love Goodness Power Shining forth eternally in him in what he is hath done and doth all presented unto us in one view all comprehended by us at once is that which at present we cannot conceive We can long for it pant after it and have some foretasts of it namely of that State and Season wherein our whole Souls in all their powers and faculties shall constantly inseparably eternally cleave by Love unto whole Christ in the fight of the Glory of his Person and Grace until they are watered dissolved and inebriated in the Waters of Life and the Rivers of Pleasure that are above for evermore So must we speak of the things which we admire which we adore which we love which we long for which we have some foretasts of in sweetness inessable which yet we cannot comprehend THESE are some few of those things whence ariseth the difference between that view which we have here of the Glory of Christ and that which is reserved for Heaven namely such as are taken from the difference between the means or instruments of the one and the other Faith and Sight IN the last place the great difference between them consists in and is manifested by their effects Hereof I shall give some few instances and close this discourse 1. THE Vision which we shall have of the Glory of Christ in Heaven and of the Glory of the immense God in him is perfectly and absolutely transforming
your Net this once more upon the Command of Christ venture this once more to come unto him on his Call and Invitation you know not what success he may give unto you 2. CONSIDER that it is not failing in this or that Attempt of coming to Christ but a giving over your Endeavours that will be your Ruine The Woman of Canaan in her great outcry to Christ for Mercy Mat. 15. 22. had many a Repulse First it is said he answered her not a word then his Disciples desired that he would send her away that she might not trouble him any more whereon he gives a Reason why he would not regard her or why he could justly pass her by she was not an Israelitess unto whom he was sent yet she gives not over but pressing into his presence cries out for Mercy ver 25. being come to that issue to try and draw out her Faith to the utmost which was his design from the beginning he reckons her among Dogs that were not to have Childrens bread given unto them Had she now at last given over upon this severe Rebuke she had never obtained Mercy but persisting in her Request she at last prevailed ver 27. 28. It may be you have prayed and cryed and resolved and vowed but all without success as you suppose Sin hath broken thorough all however if you give not over you shall prevail at last you know not at what time God will come in with his Grace and Christ will manifest his love unto you as unto the poor Woman after many a rebuke It may be after all he will do it this day and if not he may do it another do not despond Take that word of Christ himself for your Encouragement Prov. 8. 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my Gates waiting at the posts of my doors If you hear him and wait though you have not yet admission but are kept at the gates and posts of the doors yet in the issue you shall be blessed 3. THE Rule in this case is Hos. 6 3. Then shall we know if we follow on to know Are you in the way of knowing Christ in the use of Means hearing the Word and sincere Endeavours in holy Duties though you cannot yet attain unto any Evidence that you have received him have closed with him nothing can ruine you but giving over the way wherein you are for then shall you know if you follow on to know the Lord. Many can give you their Experiences that if they had been discouraged by present overwhelming Difficulties arising from their Disappointments breaking of Vows relapses into Folly they had been utterly ruined whereas now they are at rest and peace in the Bosom of Christ. On a great surprizal Christ lost at once many Disciples and they lost their Souls John 6. 66. They went back and walked no more with him take heed of the like Discouragements III. SOME may say yea practically they do say That these things indeed are necessary they must come to Christ by believing or they are undone but this is not the season of it there will be time enough to apply themselves unto it when other occasions are past At present they have not leisure to enter upon and go through with this Duty wherefore they will abide in their present State for a while hearing and doing many things and when time serves will apply themselves unto this Duty also 1. THIS is an uncontrollable evidence of that Sottishness and Folly which is come upon our Nature by Sin A Depravation that the Apostle places in the head of the Evils of corrupted Nature Tu. 3. 3. Can any thing be more foolish sottish and stupid than for men to put off the consideration of the Eternal Concernment of their Souls for one hour being altogether uncertain whether they shall live another or no to preferr present Trifles before the Blessedness or Misery of an Immortal State For those who never heard of these things who never had any Conviction of Sin and Judgment to put the evil day far from them is not much to be admired But for you who have Christ preached unto you who own a necessity of coming unto him to put it off from day to day upon such slight pretences it is an astonishable Folly May you not be spoken unto in the language of the Wisdom of God Prov. 6. 9 10 11. You come to hear the Word and when you go away the language of your Hearts is Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep We will abide a little while in our present State and afterwards we will rouze up our selves Under this Deceit do multitudes perish every day This is a dark Shade wherein cursed Unbelief lyes hid 2. CONSIDER that this is the greatest Engine that Satan makes use of in the World among them that hear the Word preached unto them for the ruine of their Souls He hath other Arts and Ways and Methods of dealing with other Men as by sensual and worldly Lusts But as unto them who through their Convictions do attend unto the preaching of the Word this is his great and almost only Engine for their Ruine There needs no haste in this matter another time will be more seasonable you may be sure not to fail of it before you dye However this present day and time is most unfit for it you have other things to do you cannot part with your present frame you may come again to hear the Word the next opportunity Know assuredly if your Minds are influenced unto delays of coming to Christ by such insinuations you are under the Power of Satan and he is like enough to hold you fast unto Destruction 3. THIS is as evil and dangerous a Posture or frame of Mind as you can well fall under If you have learned to put off God and Christ and the Word for the present Season and yet relieve your selves in this that you do not intend like others alwayes to reject them but will have a time to hearken to their calls you are secured and fortified against all Convictions and Perswasions all fears one answer will serve for all within a little while you will do all that can be required of you This is that which ruines the Souls of multitudes every day It is better dealing with Men openly profligate than with such a trifling promiser See Isa. 5. 7 10. 4. REMEMBER that the Scripture confines you unto the present day without the least intimation that you shall have either another day or another tender of Grace and Mercy in any day 2 Cor. 6. 2. Heb. 3. 7. 13. Chap. 12. 15. Take care lest you come short of the Grace of God miss of it by missing your opportunity Redeem the time or you are lost for ever 5. AS unto the pretence of your Occasions and Business there is a ready way to disappoint the craft of Satan in that pretence namely
2. Are we then any of us under Convictions of Spiritual Decays or do we long for such Renovations of Spiriritual strength as may make us flourish in Faith Love and Holiness we must know assuredly that nothing of all this can be attained but it must come from Jesus Christ alone We see what Promises are made what Duties are prescribed unto us but however we should endeavour to apply our selves unto the one on the other they would yield us no Relief unless we know how to receive it from Christ himself 2. THE only way of receiving Supplies of Spiritual Strength and Grace from Jesus Christ on our part is by Faith Hereby we come unto him are implanted in him abide with him so as to bring forth Fruit. He dwells in our Hearts by Faith and he acts in us by Faith and we live by Faith in or on the Son of God This I suppose will be granted that if we receive any thing from Christ it must be by Faith it must be in the Exercise of it or in a way of Believing nor is there any one word in the Scripture that gives the least Encouragement to expect either Grace or Mercy from him in any other way or by any other means 3. THIS Faith respects the Person of Christ his Grace his whole Mediation with all the Effects of it and his Glory in them all This is that which hath been so much insisted on in the foregoing Discourses as that it ought not to be again insisted on This therefore is the issue of the whole A steady view of the Glory of Christ in his Person Grace and Office thrô Faith or a constant lively Exercise of Faith on him according as he is revealed unto us in the Scripture is the only effectual way to obtain a Revival from under our Spiritual Decays and such Supplies of Grace as shall make us Flourishing and Fruitful even in Old Age. He that thus lives by Faith in him shall by his Spiritual thriving and growth shew That the Lord is upright that he is our Rock and that there is no unrighteousness in him WE may consider briefly First How this is is testified unto in the Scripture and then what are the ways whereby this Grace or Duty will produce this effect and so put a close unto this part of the Application of the Sacred Truth before declared 1. THIS Direction is given us Psal. 34. 5. They looked unto him and were lightened and their Faces were not ashamed That it is Christ or the Glory of God in him that is thus looked unto I need not prove it will not be denied And it is their Faith which is expressed by their looking unto him which is nothing but that beholding of his Glory which we have described For it is an Act of Trust arising from an Apprehension of who and what he is The issue or effect hereof is that they were lightened that is received fresh Communication of Spiritual Saving Refreshing Light from him and consequently of all other Graces whence their Faces were not ashamed nor shall we fail in our Expectation of new Spiritual Communication in the Exercise of the same Faith THIS is that which we are called unto Isa. 45. 22. Look unto me and be saved all ye ends of the Earth On this look to Christ on this view of his Glory depends our whole Salvation and therefore all things that are needful thereunto do so also This is the way whereby we receive Grace and Glory This is the Direction given us by the Holy Ghost for the attaining of them SO is the same Duty described Micah 7. 7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation my God will hear me The Church knew not any other way of Relief whatever her Distresses were A Look unto Christ as Crucified and how Glorious he was therein hath been declared is made the Cause and Fountain of that Godly Sorrow which is a Spring unto all other Graces especially in those who have fallen under Decays Zech. 12. 10. and it is so also of desiring strength from him to enable us to endure all our Tryals Troubles and Afflictions with patience unto the end Heb. 12. 2. THE only Enquiry remaining is How a constant view of the Glory of Christ will produce this Blessed Effect in us And it will do so several ways 1. IT will be effected by that transforming Power and Efficacy which this Exercise of Faith is always accompanied withal This is that which changeth us every day more and more into the likeness of Christ as hath been at large before declared Herein all Revivals and all Flourishings are contained To have a good measure of Conformity unto Christ is all whereof in this Life we are capable The perfection of it is Eternal Blessedness According as are our Attainments therein so is the thriving and flourishing of the Life of Grace in us which is that which is aimed at other ways and means it may be have failed us let us put this to the Tryal Let us live in the constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ and vertue will proceed from him to repair all our Decays to renew a right Spirit within us and to cause us to abound in all Duties of Obedience This way of producing these effects Flesh and Blood will not reveal it looks like washing in Jordan to cure a Leprosie But the Life of Faith is a Mystery known only unto them in whom it is 2. IT will fix the Soul unto that Object which is suited to give it Delight Complacency and Satisfaction This in perfection is Blessedness for it is caused by the Eternal Vision of the Glory of God in Christ And the nearer Approaches we make unto this State the better the more Spiritual the more Heavenly is the State of our Souls And this is to be obtained only by a constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ as hath been declared And it is several ways effectual unto the end now proposed For 1. THE most of our Spiritual Decays and Barrenness arise from an inordinate admission of other things into our Minds for these are they that weaken Grace in all it 's Operations But when the Mind is filled with thoughts of Christ and his Glory when the Soul thereon cleaves unto him with intense Affections they will cast out or not give admittance unto those causes of Spiritual Weakness and Indisposition See Col. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. Ephes. 5. 8. 2. WHERE we are ingaged in this Duty it will stir up every Grace unto it's due Exercise which is that wherein the Spiritual Revival enquired after doth consist This is all we desire all we long for this will make us fat and flourishing namely that every Grace of the Spirit have it's due Exercise in us See Rom. 5. 3 4 5. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8. Whereas therefore Christ himself is the first proper adequate Object of all Grace and all