The Life of Faith. knowledge, andfo to be filled with the fulnefs of God. If Faith be the,Wayto fee Gods Love, and Faith be the way thereby to raife Out Love to God, then Faith in Chriß mull needs be the continual intlrumcnt of the Spirit, or that means which we muf1i1jli ufe for the increafe of the Spirit. Dirceit. a 5. The works of the Spirit, nrnt to the excitation e f Life, Light and Love, do confiff in the fsbduing of tke lulls of the flefh, and of thepower ofall the objet7s of fenfe which ferve it, Therefore lefure tbat youfaithfully ferve the Spirit in ibis morti- fying work, and that you take not part with the flesh again, it. A grat part of our duty towards theHoly Ghoß, doth con- fill in this joyning withhim, and obeying him in hisffrivings againff the fltth : And therefore it is that fo many and carnal exhortations arc ufed withus, to liveafter the Spirit, and not after the th h; and to mortifie the lulls of the tleth, and the deeds of it by the Spirit; cfpecially in Rom. 8. t. to the 16. and in Gal. 5. throughout. & Rom. 6. &7. & Col. 3. Epbef, 5 Dirct`. 26. Take net every ftriving for a vWWory, n r every defire of grace, tobe true grace it felf ; unleßgrace le drfired as it is the lovely Image ofGod, and pleating to bim, and be defieed` before aT! earthlythings ; and uniefsyou not only (frive agiinff, but conquer the predominant love ofevery fin. Thereare manyuneffe6lual defires and ftrivings which con- with the dominionof fin. Many a fornicator, andglutton, and drunkard, hath camel withes that he could leave his fin, . whenhe thinketh of the flame and punifhment ; and hath a great deal of (hiving againß it before he yieldeth : But yet he lived/ in it (fill, becaufc his love to it is the predominant part in him, Rom. 6.2. How (ball we that are dead to fin, live any }anger therein 1 Knowye not that fo many of us as were bajrzrd into Cbriff, were baptized into his death--.'We are buryed with him by Baptifra Knowing this, that our old man is cru- cified with him, that the body of fin might be deffroyed, that henceforth wefbould not fervefin: For be that is dead, is freed fromfen. --V. 12. Let notfin reign therefore in your mor tal bodies, that yefieuld obey it in the lofts thereof. V. 713 'Neither yield your members fervors of unrigbteoufnefs unto $n--For finjiod not kaue dominion over your--Know ye set
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