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The Ingenerating Of A Principle Of Grace In The Soul Seems In Scripture To Be Compared To The Conceiving Of Christ In The Womb... And The Conception Of Christ In The Womb Of The Blessed Virgin By The Power Of The Holy Ghost, Seems To Be A Designed Resemblance Of The Conception Of Christ In The Soul Of A Believer By The Power Of The Same Holy Ghost.

All The Fruits Of The Spirit Which We Are To Lay Weight Upon As Evidential Of Grace, Are Summed Up In Charity, Or Christian Love; Because This Is The Sum Of All Grace. And The Only Way, Therefore, In Which Any Can Know Their Good Estate, Is By Discerning The Exercises Of This Divine Charity In Their Hearts; For Without Charity, Let Men Have What Gifts You Please, They Are Nothing.

Grace Is The Seed Of Glory, The Dawning Of Glory In The Heart, And Therefore Grace Is The Earnest Of The Future Inheritance.

There Is, Therefore, No Difficulty In Answering Such Questions As These. What Cause Was There Why The Universe Was Placed In Such A Part Of Space? And, Why Was The Universe Created At Such A Time? For, If There Be No Space Beyond The Universe, It Was Impossible That It Should Be Created In Another Place; And If There Was No Time Before, It Was Impossible It Should Be Created At Another Time.

Christ Is Like A River In Another Respect. A River Is Continually Flowing, There Are Fresh Supplies Of Water Coming From The Fountain-head Continually, So That A Man May Live By It, And Be Supplied With Water All His Life. So Christ Is An Ever-flowing Fountain; He Is Continually Supplying His People, And The Fountain Is Not Spent. They Who Live Upon Christ, May Have Fresh Supplies From Him To All Eternity; They May Have An Increase Of Blessedness That Is New, And New Still, And Which Never Will Come To An End.