The Life of fFaith. 217 Not that the Effence of God, or the perfon of theHoly Gho[i, is capable ofbeingcontained in any place, or removing to or from a place, by local motion But i. The Holy Ghoft is given to us Relatively, as our Covenanting Sanctifier in the Baptifmal Covenant : We have a Covenant-right tohim, that is, to his operations. z. And theSpirit it felt is prefent as the immediate Operator ; not fo immediate as to be without Means, but fo immediately as to be no diftant Agent, but by proximate attingency , not only ratione virtutie , but an ratione fuppoftti, performeth his operations : If you fay, fo be is prefent every where ; I anfwer, but he is not a prefent Operator every wherealike. We arecalled the Temples of the HolyGhoft, both becaufe he buildeth us up for fo holy a ufe, and becaufe he alto dwelletb in us, a Cor. 6. 19. Dircd. so. By the fan lification commonly afcribed to the Holy Ghoft, is meant that recoveryof the foul to God, from whom it is fallen, which confrfteth in our primitiveHolinefs, or devoted- nefs to God, but fummarily in the Loveof God, as God. Dire& a I. And Faith in Cbrift is oft placedas before it, not as if theSpirit wereno caufi of Faith, nor as if Faith were nopart of our Paving fpecialgrace; nor as if any badPaving Faith before they had Love to God; but becaufe as Chrift is the Media.. tour and way to the Father; fo Faith in him is but a mediate grace to bring us up to the Love of God, which is the final per. feaivegrace : Andbecaufe, though they are infeparably compli- cate, yet force as ofFaith gobefore our fpecial Love to God in or- der of nature, though fame others follow after it, or go with it. It is a queltion which feemeth verydifficult to many, whe- ther Love toCod, or Faith in Cbrift mutt go firft (whether ha time or order of nature.) For if we fay that Faith in Cbrilf mu8go fiat, then it feemeth that we take taot Faith or Chrift as aMeans to bring us to Godas our End ; for our Endis Dam amatus, God as beloved ; and to make God our End, and to love him, are infcparable. We Hi love the good which appeareth to and then we chufe and ufe the Means to attain it ; ani in fodoingwemake thatour End which we did love ; fo that it is the firft loved for it fell, and then made our End. Nowif Chrift be not ufed as a Means to God, or as our Vanier End, wren he is not believed in, or ufed at Cbrifi' and therefore it is Ec no
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