The Lift of Faith. pr,vifion, ofrefurrection and luffiftcation, andof the life ofglory which we thall live for ever. And if the Faith which looketh onall tbefe, cannot yet warm your hearts with love, nor en- gage them in thankful obedience to your Redeemer, certainly it is no true and lively Faith. But you mudnot think tearroaoly andfeldonr of there mer- cies; nor hearken to the Devil or the do rive ofany mitlaken Teachers, that would reprefent Gods Love as veiled or cc- clipfed; or Phew you nothing but wrath and flames. That which Chriti principally came to reveal, the Devil principally (lriveth to conceal, even the Love of God to (inners ; that fo that which Chritf principally came to work in us, the Devil might principally labour to defiroy; and that is, oar love to bins that hath fo loved tit. Dire& 5. Take heed of all the .Antinomian Ds :trines before recited, which, to extol the empty Name and Image of Free Grace, do deffroy the true principles and motives of bolinejs and obedience. Dirc t. 6. Exercife your Faith upon all the holy Scriptures, Precepts, Promifis and 7bveatnings, and not on one of them alone. For when God bath appointed all conjanFly for this work, you are unlike to have his bleliling, or the e'ff. d, if you will lay by mod ofhis remedies. Dire. 7. Takenot thatfor Holinefs andGood Works, which is no focb thing; but either mans inventions, or fore eommota gifts of God. It greatly deludeth the world, to take up a wrong defcrip- tien or charae$er of Holinefs in their minds. As i. The Pa- pills take it forHolinefs,to be very °bfctvane in their adoration of the fuppofed tranfubftantiated Flout:; to ufe their reliques, pilgrimages, crotlìngs, prayers to Saints and Angels, anointings, Candles, Images, obfervation ofmeats and daies, penance, au- ricular confcilìon, praying by numbers and hours on their beads, &c. They think their idle ceremonies are holinefs, and that their hurtful aullerities, and (elf-atflui ings (by riling in thenight, when they might pray as long before they go to bed) (and by whipping thcmfelves) to be very meritorious parts of Religion. And their vows of renouncing marriage and propriety, and of abfolute obedience, to be a (late of perfcáion., j 2,Or?*1,7a 3,69
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