The Life of Faith. 3b5 ,- -- God in Love ; and Regeneration by the Spirit, is the Spirits begetting us to the Image and Nature of God our heavenly Father, in a heavenly Love to him : So that the Holy Ghoft is givenus to work in us a Love to God, which is our fancnifcation, Rom. 5. 5. g'itUUs 3. 4, 5, 6,7. 2 Cor. á3. I* 1 jobn 4. 16. Prop. 12. When San(ification is mentioned as a gift con- fcqucnt to Faith, it is the Love of God as our Father in Chrifi,and the Spirit of Love, that is principally meant by that Sandifcation Prop. 1 ;. The pardon of fin conlfleth more in forgiving, the papam damni, the forfeiture and lofs of Love, and the Spirit of Love, than in remitting any corporal pain of fenfe. And the refioring of Love, and the Spirit of Love, and the perfcfking hereof in Heaven, is the moft eminent part ofour executive Pardon, Juilification and. Adoption. Thus far San6ification is Pardon it fell, Rom, 8.15,1 6,17. Ga1.4.6. r Cor. 6. lo, II. Titus 3. 6, 7. 7itur 2.13, 14. Roar. 6, Rom. 8. 4,10,13. trop. 14.. Thepardon of the pain of fenfe, is given us as a means, to the executive pardon of the pain of lofs, that is, to put us i6t capacity, with doubled obligations and advantages to Love God, Luke 7. 47, Prop. 15. Sandification therefore being better than all other pardon of fin, as being its end ; we mutt value it more, and mutt make it our brft delire to be as holy as may be, that we may need as littleforgivenefs as may be, and in the fecondplace only delire the pardon of that which we had rather not have committed ; and not make pardon our chiefdelire, Kern. 6, &7, & Y. throuohoue, Gal. 5.17. to the end. Prop. a6. Holinefs is the'true Morality; and they that pre- fer the preaching, and practice of Faith in Chriß, ha- lore the preaching and practice of Holinefr, and flcight this as meet morality, do prefer the means before the end, and their ..phyfick before their health : And they that preach or think to pradife Holinefs, without Faith in Chrifi, do dream of a cure without the only Phyttician of fouls. And they that preach up Morality x 3 as
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