414- The Life of Faith. bridling the tongue, or incontrolling pride and felf-cftcem, or or in denying the particular delres of their fenfe, whoyet are ready at many' other duties, and eminent in them. Great knowledge is toooft with too little charity or zeal ; and great zeal and diligence often with as little knowledge. And Co in many other inftances. So that if the Potentiality of the radical graces ofLife, Light and Love, be or were equal, yet certainly proper andFarhat. lar habits are not. But here note further, 1. That nograce is ffrong where the radicalgraces, Faith and Love arc weak : As no part of the body is (bong, where the Brain and Heart are weak ; (yeaor the naturals,the fotnach and liver.) 2. The ftrengthof Faithand Love is the principal means of ftrengthening all other graces ; and of right performing all other duties. 3. Yet are they not alone a fufcient means, but other in feriourgraces and duties may be weak and negleé{ed, where Faith and Love are ftróng ; through particular obftruding cauCes. As feme branches of the treemay perith when the root is found ; or fome mmbers may have an Atrophic, though the brain and heart benot difeafed. 4. That the three Principles, Life, Light and Love, do moti rarely keep any disproportion ; and would never be difpró. portionable at all, if Come things did not hinder the atfings of one more than the other, or turn away the foul from the influences and impreffions of the Spirit more as to one than to the refl. z. Hence you may learn, That the Image of God is much elearlier and per. fet1lecr. imprinted in the holy Scriptures, than in any of our hearts. And that our Religion cbjec9ively conftdered, is much moreperfeel, than fubjet7ively in ut. to Sc' ipture, and in the truedoFrinal method our Religion isentire, perfea and coop/eat. But in it, it is confufed, lame and lamentably im- perfed. The Scetaries that herefay, None ofthe Spirits works are imperfetl, are not to be regarded : For fo they may as well fay, that there are none infants, difeafcd,lame, difrar%ed, poor, or monfters in the world; beeaufe none of Gods works arc imperfcd. All that is in God is God, and therefore per- fat i
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