The Life of Faith. 377 Sanaification (or Perfellion) producing Nature, Grace and Glory, or our Perfans, Medicine, and Health. q. And God who created the world, is thereupon to be known in his Relations to it; as our Creator in Unity, and as our 6rvner, Ruler, and ChiefGood (efficient, dirigent and final) in a Trinity of Relations. You mutt know how the Infinite Vital Power of the Father, created all things by the Infinite Wifdorn cf the Word, or Son, and by the Infinite Good nefr and Lyeof the holy Spirit (As the Son redeemed is as the eternal Wifdom, and Word Incarnate, tent by the eternal Vital Power of the Father, to reveal and communicate the eternal Love in the Holy Gho(t: And as the HolyGhott doth fasdifie and perfeel us, as proceeding and Cent from the Power of the Father, and the Wifdom of the Son, to flied abroad the Lave ofGod upon our hearts, &c.) o. Next to the knowledge of God as Creator, is tobe confi- dered the ¡Vorld,whichhe crcated,and cfpccially the 1ntcúeEnal Creatures ; Angels, or heavenlySpirits, and Men. Man is to be known in his perfon or conffitution fiait, and afterward ira his appointed courfe, and in his end and perledion. t t. In his conttitution is to beconldered, a. His Being or effential parts : 2. His Rectitude or Oialities : 3. His Relations, a. To his Crcatour; And 2, To his fellow- crea- tures. 12. His effential parts are his fouland body : Hisfoul is to be known in the Vnityofits Eince, and Trinity of e fentialfacul- ties (which is its natural Image ofGod.) Its Once is a Living Spirit : Its effential faculties are r. AVital Allivity, orPower :. 2. An Vndrrl4andixg : 3. A Will. 13. His Rellitude, which is Gods Moral Imageon him, con- flitch I. In the promptitude and fortitude, of ,'1 his 4áive Power: a. In the IVi¡domof his Varier/banding: 3. In the MoralGoodnef3 ofhis Will, which is its Inclination to íts.End, and Readinefs for its Duty. . 14. Being created loch a creature, by a meet refultancy from his Nature, and his Creator, he is related to him as his Creature; and in that Unity is the fubfequent Trinity of Re- lations : t. As we arc Gods Propriety, or his Oren: a. His Subjects : 3, His Beneficiaries and Lavers : 41 Comprized iii Bbb the
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