But how shall we know what is the life of Christ? I answer—By three things: there will be freeness, and there will be power, and there will be likeness to Christ. 1. There will be freeness towards God. The heart is sweetly drawn out to comply with the mind of Christ. Christ doth not live in you, if there be not a willingness in you to be like him. The Spirit of Christ supplieth the place of a law in such a soul: Rom. viii. 2, 'For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.' Outward letters and the rule could not make him free, and disentangle him from his corruptions, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus evangelising the law of God, did.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:8, p. 361
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