2nd.—Divine life in the will; a quickening, powerful influence, which begets holy desires that nothing can satisfy, but a covenant God in Christ.—Isaiah, lxvi.
3rd.—Divine love, or holy affection for the Saviour, his person, work, ways, word, and people.
4th.—A quickened conscience, made sensible of pardon, and favoured with holy peace with God, through the atonement and righteousness of the Mediator.
5th.—The witness of the Spirit, by the Word, to the heart, proving the work on the soul to be genuine.
I do not say this witness of the Spirit is essential to constitute the new man; but it is essential to the knowledge of this blessed work on the soul. These five capital blessings are the evidences of our union to Christ, as the Head of the Church, and the Saviour of the body: and, as God the Holy Spirit shall condescend to bring things to my remembrance, and shed a radiance on the heavenly path, so I will relate it in as few words as I can.
May he bless you with all that is implied in that sweet promise, and thine age shall be clearer than the noon day; thou shalt shine forth; thou shalt be as the morning.
Yours, truly, J. C.
LETTER II.
“Thou leddest thy people like a flock of sheep, by the hands of Moses and Aaron.”
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