.16 The Life if GOD "\tVherein the It is now time to return to divi~~ lifedoth the confideration of that divine conuu. lij h f I .J• r r. . 1 ·e vv ereo was uncournng before; that lift "which is hid with Chrifl in God, . and therefore bath no glorious fhew or appearance in the world, and to the natural n1an will feen1 a n1ean and in– fi pid notion. As the ·Anin1al life -conft– fieth in that narrow and confined love ·which is terminated on a man·'s felf, and in his propenfion towards thofe things that are pleafing to nature; fo the divine life fi ands in an univerfal and unbounded af– feCtion, and in the mafiery over our natu– ral inclinations, that they may never be able to betray us t() thofe things which we know to be blameable. trhe root of the divine life is faith; the chief branches are, love to God, charity to man , purity, and h umility: for (as an excellent perfon bath ' vell obferved) ho\vever thefe names be comn1on and vulgar, and n1ake no extra– ordinary found; yet do they carry fuch a n1ighty fenfe, that the tongue of 1nan or angel can pronounce nothing more weighty or excellent. Faith hath the fan1e place in the divin~ life which fe.nfe .bath in the; natural, being indeed nothing elfe but a kind of fenfe, or feeling perfuafion of [pi– ritual things. It extends itfdf unto all .divme \.
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