*70 The Life of Faith, back by reproaches anda lif2iens ; and partly wbilli they tecame companions of them that were fo ufed ---And took, joyfully the Ooiling oftheir goods, knowing in theeufelves that they had in ,Heaven abetter and an enduringfubffance. And tan, the j elf do live by faith ; but ifany man drawback,, my foul fhall have no ?feature in bins, faith the Lord. See alto Rom, 8. 33, 36, 37 &c. Thefe are the Spiritr defcriptions of faith but if you will rather take a whimfical ignorant mans defcription, who can only tots in his mouth the name of FREE GRACE, and knoweth not of what he fpeaketh, or what he afhrmeth, or what that name fignifieth, which he chcateth his own foul with, intlead of true Free Grace it felt, you mull Puffer the bitter fruits of your own delufuon. For my part I fhall fay thus much more, to tell you why I fay fo much, to help you to a right underftandiug of the nature of true Chriftian Faith. r. If you underhandnot truly what Feitb is, you under- (landnot what Religion it is that you profits: And fo you call your felves Chriftians, and know not what it is. It teems ehofe that laid, Lord, we have eaten and drunken in thy pre - fence, and prophefred in thy Name, did think they had been trueBelievers, Mattb. 7.2r, 22. 2. To erre about the nature oftrue Faith, will engage you in abundance of other errours, which will ncccflärily arife from that as it did them, againfi whom James difputeth, James 2. 14, 05, &c. about Juftification by Faith and by Works. 3. It will damnably delude your fouls, about your own Hate, and draw you to think that you have Paving Faith, be- caufe you have that fancy which you thought was it. One comes boldly toChrift, Mat. 8. 19. Mafter, I will follow thee ambitherfoever thou goeffr But when he heard [The Foxes have boles, and the Birds have Hefts, but the Son of man bathnot where to lay hie bead] we hear no more of him. And another came with:a [Good Mailer, what fhall I do to inherit eternal life ?] Luke 18.18. as ifhe wouldhave been oneofChrifis Difciples, and have done any thing for Heaven. (And it's like that he would have been a Chriftian, if Free Grata had been as large, and
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