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fashioned according to it. Hence it is, that the saints are said to be "sealed with the Holy Spirit," Eph. i. 13, because as the seal leaves its print upon the wax, so the Spirit makes holy impressions in the soul: this is called the "writing of the law in our hearts," Jer. xxxi. 33; in allusion whereunto the apostle compares the hearts of believers to tables, 2 Cor. iii. 2, 3; and their affections or conversation to an epistle, which is said to be read and understood of all men when they walk as examples of the rule, 2 Cor. iii. 2.

3. Hence it is, that godliness hath a self-sufficiency joined with it, 1 Tim. vi. 6. Because the Christian is now in communion with God, whose face when a man beholds in righteousness, he shall be satisfied with his image, Psa. xvii. 15. Hence comes that peace of conscience, joy unspeakable and glorious, and that holy triumph and exultation of spirit, which you may observe in the apostle Paul and others, Rom. v. 1. 1 Peter i. 8. Rom. viii. 25.

Having briefly shewed what this conformity, and communion with God is, I will add one or two more words to make it manifest, that only those are truly happy who are in this estate. For, 1. Man's utmost end is, that it may be perfectly well with him, which he can never attain unto without communion with God, who is the Father of spirits, and the best of goods. Other things are desired as subordinate to this. The body is for the soul, as the matter for its form, or the instrument for its agent. Human wisdom and moral virtues are desired, not for themselves, but for the fruit that is expected by them, as glory, pleasure, and riches. Worldly and bodily pleasures, excessively desired, are as drink in a fever, or dropsy; better it is to be without the malady than to enjoy