tl7e 1\lature and -Caufes ofit. I 1 3 table Performance of our Duties, are ael-ually communi-' cated unto us·. This is the way whereby God will be glori– fied. This is the Myfiery ofour Religion, that we wonl1ip God according to the Oeco;wmy of his Wifaom p.nd Grace, wherein he cloth difpence of himfe if unto us in the Perfons of the Father, Son and Spirit. Otherwife he will not be ho– noured or worihipped by us. And thofe who in the tr Wor– :lhip or Invocation do attempt an approach unto the Divine Nature as abfolutely confidered, without refpefr unto the Difpenfation of God in the difiintl: Perfons of the Holy Tri7 nity, do reject the Myfiery of the.Gofpel, and all the Benefits of it. So is it with many. And not a few, who pretend a great Devotion unto God, do fupply o~her things into the room of Chrift as Saints andAng,els, rejeCting alfo the Aids of the Spirit to comply w1th Imaginations of their own, whofe Affifrance herein they more approve o£ But this is the nature and method of ordinary Solemn Evangelical Invocation. So it is declared , Ephef 2. I 8. Through h~m we have an Accefs !Jy one Spirit unto the Father. It is the Father unto whom we have our A.ccefs whom we peculiarly invocate ; as it i$ expreffed, chap. ~· I 4,1 5', 16. For this cauje I how my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrifl, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Farth is named, that he would grant ~~O.tv;'&c. But it is through him, that is, by Chrifi in the( exercife of his Mediatory Office that we have this .&ttcefs · unto the Father; we ask in his Name, and for his fake;···Joh. 14-1 ),14. chap. I6. 2~, 24. They did fo of old, though not in that exprefs exercife of Faith which we now attain unto, Dan. 9· 17. Hear 0 Lord, and have mercy for the LordJ fake. All this are we enabled unto by one Spirit ; through the Aids and Ailifiance of the Spirit - of Grace an~ Supplication, Rom. 8. 26, 27. So that Prayer is our crying A!Jba Father, by the Spirit of the Son, Gal. 4 6. This \ !
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