194 What it is to live-by Faith,&c. Heb,xr.ç, e"Praha.n walkdbefore Gad. Paul lived, if ever any, Gtr,,24.40 comfortably,happily,fromthe time ofhis- convertion, to the timeofhis diftto'ution : but even whileft ,he live i in Ga10.2o. theflefh, he livedby the the"fetith ofotir Lord lefts Chr/ . Without faith whatare we but dead mules ? living car- k rfes,that carrie about, andare carriedwith deal foules ? The bed, molt excellent, and prerious part of Man is dc- flitute. oftrue life,till faith be infpiad into it from above, Cos, 3.3, 4. whereby we are 'united u ,to C'bria the f'ountaine of ft.:- perms-all and crernail Iife. The m glorious or plea - fant life of Man, without faith, is but a vaina 1hidow, a meere piFture, and refe nbiance oç life, or of'cica[h ra- ther,drowc.ed in carnali delight,fùll of vexation, and lea- ding towards everlafting perditioi. The bait workeof the regenerate, ifit be not animated and quickned by lively faith, is but the veryoutfide and dull matter of a good andacceptable worker, There is no going right for- ward in the way toHeaven, if faith benot the,guide, 1 Tim.1, 5. The end of`the Ca, nm rode s nt is love, out of a ¡mare conjiiencc, andfaith unfai rcd. That which is here callad lun.anisnxd, in the precept, is not all the law, but onely the precept Beg Cont.S.1 b, that Paul giveth toTimor /,.7, that hce, houldhavecare.to 3. cad: a z.'rot. fecthat the(e were"no f rangedoLlrineadrn teed, neithé ' 14 fOr'forme,nor tnatter,neither for things direetáy c,,pntua.ry to 4Vholfome.cloí trine,nor for idle queltions, iröt tending tòbìiildifithèp,.óple' in the love ofGo .I, all of their. Verle 3, Neihbóur; as appeared, evidently, ,.b:, th b the verbe before; wherec fthis"word.het'e is derived, r is Vesta a s. ä ÍrÌ word ufedAfterwar'd' in this 'Chap.0r4 r .,t,e fignificationofit isrefrained unto the prefetät gutter of I ' eehortttation, NeverthelefCe, itmay well -beapplied ro Cbriflis rb conñrné thatevery a ,offincere, and :unpartiall "obedi- fou:itaar3e©F ; ence,muft come from alively ,well- roóted,ánd foveraigne the mane. eatrb ¡ faith. aChrifl is the fountaine, and faith the íneane's o`' life;. t.ás 3.15. i The power andoriginali of life is intirely r"èlerved"to the I°111.4. I Lordand`Prince of"life, the Light and Life o fmen, . the Pf.1 3;6.9 Author
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