Spiritual Life

The third Person in the blessed Trinity has the title of  "holy," because His proper office is to sanctify all the elect of God. So that the more we partake of the Holy Spirit, the more exact and regular our lives will be; for the true notion of a spiritual life is not a life spent wholly in the devotional part of religion, but a life spent according to the rules of sanctified reason and the dictates of God's Holy Spirit contained in His Word. The Spirit of God is a vigorous and active principle, and where He has taken up His residence in the soul of a man He will exert a powerful influence upon all his thoughts, words, and actions. And where the spiritual principle reigns in the soul of a man, it will make him to be fruitful and abound in every good work.—Alterbury