bought with a price, to glorify God with his body and his spirit, which are hisb." From this time, the man enters on a new course, mortifying the whole body of sin, and crucifying all his corrupt affections ; as it is written, " They that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts c." From this time, also, all the fruits of the Spirit are brought forth by him, and he progressively abounds in all the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of Godd." Holiness, in all its branches, is now the chief desire and delight of his soul. " By walking in the Spirit, he is kept from any desire to fulfil the lusts of the flesh6." " He can no longer commit sin, as he once did, because he is born of God f." Were it possible, he would become " holy, as God himself is holys." His continual prayer is, that "the God of peace would sanctify him wholly; and that his whole body, soul, and spirit, may be preserved blameless unto God's heavenly kingdom11." As for the world, and all its vanities, he is crucified to it " by the cross of Christ ; and the world, even in all its most attractive graces, is as a crucified object to him1." The relation between him and the world, like the tie of a departed relative, is dissolved1" ; and though in the world, " he is no more o/"the world, than Christ himself was of the world1." To walk before God, and with God, and to " maintain continual fellowship with the Father and the Son™/' is now his one ambition, his one pursuit. And it is only in proportion as he has attained this change, that he has any evidence that he belongs to Christ. In this way, allowing only for circumstantial varieties in different cases, the Holy Spirit completes in men the three different works which I mentioned, as necessary in order to our becoming Christ's.
I know that there are some who would call this a legal statement. But I have no hesitation in saying, that it is the statement which is found in every page
b 1 Cor. vi. 20. c Gal. v. 24. * Phil. i. 11.
e Gal. v. 16. f 1 John iii. 9. s Lev. xix. 2.
h 1 Thess. v. 23. « Gal. vi. 14. k Rom. vii. 4.
1 John xvii. 10, m 1 John i. 3.