is sunk in the other. Expand that general statement for a
moment or two.

The effect of all the divine indwelling, which is the characteristic
gift of Christ to every Christian soul, is to mould the recipient
into the image of the divine inhabitant. There is in the human
spirit--such are its dignity amidst its ruins, and its nobility
shining through its degradation--a capacity of receiving that image
of God which consists not only in voluntary and intelligent action
and the consciousness of personal being, but in the love of the
things that are fair, and in righteousness, and true holiness. His
Spirit, entering into a heart, will make that heart wise with its own
wisdom, strong with some infusion of its own strength, gracious with
some drops of its own grace, gentle with some softening from its own
gentleness, holy with some purity reflected from its own transcendent
whiteness. The Spirit, which is life, moulds the heart into which it
enters to a kindred, and, therefore, similar life.

There are, however, characteristics in this 'seal' of the Spirit
which are not so much copies as correspondences. That is to say, just
as what is convex in the seal is concave in the impression, and
_vice versa_, so, when that Divine Spirit comes into our spirits, its
promises will excite faith, its gifts will breed desire; to every
bestowment there will answer an opening receptivity. Recipient love
will correspond to the love that longs to dispense, the sense of need
to the divine fulness and sufficiency, emptiness to abundance,
prayers to promises; the cry 'Abba! Father'! the yearning
consciousness of sonship, to the word 'Thou art My Son'; and the
upward eye of aspiration and petition, and necessity, and waiting, to
the downward glance of love bestowing itself. The open heart answers
to the extended hand, and the seal which God's Spirit impresses upon
the heart that is submitted to it, has the two-fold character of
resemblance in moral nature and righteousness, and of correspondence
as regards the mysteries of the converse between the recipient man
and the giving God.

Then, mark that the material is made capable of receiving the stamp,
because it is warmed and softened. That is to say, faith must prepare
the heart for the sanctifying indwelling of that Divine Spirit. The
hard wax may be struck with the seal, but it leaves no trace. God
does not do with man as the coiner does with his blanks, put them
cold into a press, and by vio