Pop4h Objellions pret ented. charitieis obedient to faith, faith governeth charitie: for whatfoever we love uprightly,it muff bee knownebyfaith, that we ought to loveit, andour love mull be quickened by faith, to love it uniformely,and in right order. Faith is the meafureof love; and the meafure oliove is according to the meafure of faith : the intentionof loveis according to the degreesof faith, and the breadth of love according to the extention of faith. Where there is greater faith in God, there is greater love to God : and as faith fpreadetb it felfe, kdoth love inunifbrme manner. §. z. Faith is not wrought bycharitie (as the a j. fuite § ,. perverteth b that text of Saint Tani) for then it will fol Topid, otielFiens prevented. low, that love by which faith is wrce ght muff needs bee Ga1.5.6. before faith, whereas all acknowledge that faith bath the a "Aellar. de w- ,iltfl.z.cap.4. §. fir(f being. It is faith which fir(f heareth and beleeveth, ,t ea retnr and receiveth the wend of God, and thereb y prefcribeth U Thke untocharitie theway that it is to goe, and thedutieit is to word is reGreeor of the passive, but of the middle voice, as it'sin many other pla- ces of Scripture. Ga1.5.6. Rom .7.5. a Cor.4.ia In the interlinear, faith which is et- 4a performe; it enciteth to the worke, it animateth the a&f, and enlargéth the affeelion to the feverall branches of love; without whichwhat is charitie, but a wild, mifha- pen, wandering affefion, ri lingorfalling amiffe, comming thort or running over ? what the partiall and maimed fruits of love , but the verse carcafe of a good worke? Faith worketh by love, not as fire maketh hot by heat, felluall: Tag_ which is a formall propertie inherent in it : but as the in, working by foule doth this orthat by the hand, which is an externe love. and r., y serlarminebim_ inffrument conjoynsd unto it: That by which a thing is fe.".fe,'De 7uiiif, conffïtuted, as by a beginning, and by which itis effeefu- rió a, plá. all, that is the forme thereof. But love is a grace without liE.r. eaf.ao. the beingof faith, though conjoyned untoir; and faith is Rbemu,.fnnat,in effe&uall by love, as a primarie meane, whereby it doth gahq.n, Self 3. produce other effe&s, not asby it beginning. Chriff is the fountaine of the waterof life : Faith in the heart is as the pipes and leads that receive in and hold the water: Love in force part is as thecocke of the conduit, that letsout thewater toeverie commer. Faith juffifiethby receiving the gift of righteoufnefíe, which is by the merit of Jef;is Chrif1,
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