The Life of Faitb. Spirit, and Image of God upon the foul, is Divine Life, Light and Love, communicated fromGod by Jefus Chrift, by the holy Spirit, to work in us and by us for God (in the fouland us the world) and by Chrill to bring us up at lait, to the fight and fruitiouofGod hirnfelf; fo this Trinity of Divine prin- ciples, mutt be infcparably old, in all our internal andexter- nal duties towards God or men ; and all that we do mutt be the work of Power and offLove, and of Wifdem or a fes nd mind, a Tim. r. 7. II. Having been fo large in opening the Order ofour Du- ties, I mutt be briefer than our cafe requireth, in telling you our Difordcrs, orcontrary difeafe. O what a humbling fight it would be, if goodChrifiians did but fee the pittiful con, fofions of their minds and lives. They find little melody in their Religion, becaufe there is little harmony in their appre- henfions, afleiltionsor converfations. If the difplacing one wheel or pin in a clock, will fo much frufirate theefiet$, it is a wonder that our tongues or lives do ever go true, which are moved by,fuch difordcred parts within : that were it not that the Spirit ofgracedoth keep an order where it is cfifential to our Religion (between the End andtheMeans, &c.)wc fhould be but like the parts of a watch pulled in pieces, and put up together in a bag. But fuch is Gods mercy, that the body may live when many Co-taller veins areobttruded ; fo that the Mailer veflels be kept clear. I. There arc fo few Chriftians that have a true method of Faith or Divinity in their underftandings, even in the great points which they k ow diforderly, that it is no wonder if there be lamentable defedtivenefsand deformity, in thole in- ward and outward duties, which fhould beharrnoniouílyper- formed,' by the light ofthisharmonious truth." And no Divine in the world can give you a perfea Scheme of Divinity in all the parts ; but he is the wifeft that cometh nrereff to it. Abun- dance ofSchernes and Tables you may fee, and all "pretending tocxat nets : But everyone-palpably defe&ive and confuted ; even thofe ofthe highett pretenders that cm,' have teen. Ara one errenr or diforder dually introduced), in fuchaScheme, a E c c confufiuu 401
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