l 1:1 j 38 Love isnor thePateof Faith. Faith admits ma- ny interruption. This is thenature ofjuflifying faith : but it admits ma- ny interruptions in a5tsor operations. The mind is form- times darkened with mills anfing from our naturali cor- ruptions ; fometimes our paflions airviolently, that wee cannot doe as we would, nor continue our adherence unto the wordof life, asbetter for the time being than thepro- fecution of fume fenfuall good , that for the prefent Both move our affeaions,and is liolne into them. Naturall tale is diflempered with lick humours that abound in thebody : fo is the fpirituall with temptations fromwithout, andfpi- rituall difeafes fromwithin. Thus it iswith the bell often- times in this life, whilefl themind is clouded with earthly thoughts, and the heart affailed with carnali lulls, which through weakneffe, or negle&l ofwatchfulne%, creepupon and ditlurb them fora time : but in their right remp>r and good plight they are muchbetter ; they talkand feed upon thewordoftruth,and the favour ofGod is fweeter to them than all the delightsofthe Ions ofmen. Weconclude then that juflifying faith is a firme, abfolute, unlimited affent, and well-rooted, all-feafoning,foveraigneaffiiance,whereby wee ref+upon Chrifl for falvation, embrace themercies of God as better than life,and feed upon the Word with fweet refrefhing and delight. §. 1. Love unerttts- feuleeffaitá. CHAP. IV. .dove ra not thefettleor with,yetjufiifyingFaith cannot bewithout Love. §. i. Rom that which hathbeene fpokenof the nature IL ofFaith, thefe two things doe plainely follow: Firfl, that love is not the life and fouleof faith. Second- ly, that jutlifying faith cannotbe without love. As tight and heat in the Sunbee infeparabie, fo is faith and love, being knit together in a lure bond by the Holy Ghofl : but
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