23 2 The Life ofFaith. per., is contrary to that alacrity requifite in Gods fervice ; and to thole which the Comforter is to work inus. So much for living by Faith on the Holy Ghofi. CHAP. IV. glireflions bow to exercife Faith upon Gods Commandments, for Duty. TT being prcfuppolcd that your Faith is fettled about the truth of the Scriptures in general (by the means here be- fore and clfewhercmare at large dcfcribed) you are next to learn how toesçercife the Life of Faith about thePrecepts of God in particular ; and herein take thefc helps. DireF. s. Oblerve well bowfuitableGods Commands are to reafon, and humanity, and natural revelation it felt; and fo bowNature and Scripture do fully agree, in all the precepts for primitive holinefs. This is the caufc why Divines have thought it fo ufcful to read Heathen Moralifts themfelves, that in a Cicero, a Plutarch,. a Seneca, anAtomises, an Epiftetus, &c. they might fee what tetiimony natureit felfyieldcth, againti all ungodlinefs'and un- rigbteoufnefs ofmen. See Rent. 19, 20, &c. Sift.this I have been Iarger in my Reafonsof the Chriftian Relight" Dirce5t. z. Obferve weil bow fuitable all Gods Commandments are to your own good, and hew neceffary to your own fell- eity. All that God commandeth you, is, i. To be alive, and ufe the faculties of your fouls, in oppofition to Idlengß: 2. To ufe them rightly, and on the higheft objelis, and not to debate them by preferring vanity and fordid things, nor to pervert them by ill doing. And are not both there fuitable to your natural perfct ion, and neceffary to yourgood? r. If there were one Lawmade, that men thould lieorhand flirtall the day, with their eyes (hut, and their ears flopped, and their mouths clofed, and that they fhouldnotfair, norfee; norbear, nos take; and another Law that than (hould ufe their
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