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Ephefìanf,Chap.i.
V
ER,19.
Now
weprepareour
felves fo
juftification, when the
fpirit
doth
with-
out
any
habit
of
Grace,
lift
us
up
to
fupernaturall
ads of
belcefe,
hope
in
God,
love,
forrow
for fin,
and
feare
of
hell;
in
which
many things
are
erronious
;
as
firft,that
they
make
us
lifted
up
to
ads
of
this
nature with-
out
habits,
which
is
to
make a
blinde
man fee
without
giving his eye
new
light; to
make
us
bring good fruits while
yet
we are not
made good
trees
;
to
make us
be
juftified by
our faith, come into graceby
our faith,
Rand in
grace
by
another.
The
fchoole not underftanding the doltrine
of
preparation, confiderof
it
philofophically,
asa
thing
betweeneNa-
ture
and Grace.
Now
betweene the things we worke out
of
naturali
flrength, and
chofe
we do meritorioufly from Grace now
infufed
in.
to
us, and
inherent
in
us,
they
devife
a
third
kinde
ofworkes,which
ney-
ther comefrom
any
power
of
ours meerely,
nor yet from
auy fuperna-
turall Grace inherent
in
us;
and thefe are workes done
by
eternall
ayde
of
the
fpirit;
whereas
all
the
Scripture
make
that faith which
is
required
to juftification, to be the fame with
that
which worketh by
love;
to
be
a
faith fully
formed, comming from
a
fpirit of faith,
that
is, an habitu-
all
gift wrought
by the
fpirit ;
to
be
a
faith beleeving
on
God,
which
the
heft pillars
of
popifh
learning confeffeto be
an
ad
of
formed
faith.
Betide, they erre when
they
make
feare
of
hell
a
thingimmediately
dif-
pofrng
to
juftification,
when the worke of this
is
to move
us
to
feeke
out
of
our
felves
after tome word of faith, and this
is
caft
forth propor-
tionably
as
faith and love enters:
It
may prepare to our converfion,
not
to
our juffification
immediately. Againe, when they
make love
aâuall
to
goe before juftification, whereas love
doth follow
;
For
we love, be.
caufe
we
have found
love
firft
;
now no love
is
felt from
God
till
remif
-
.
lion
offinne
and acceptance
to
life
in
fome meafure are felt
and
percei-
ved:
fhould
God
lift
us
up
to love
him
before
his
juftification, he
fbould
by
making
us
love him, prepare
us
to
be loved
of
him ;
Sbee
loved:
much,
becaufe much ú
forgiven her.In
a
word letting
afide
the
ad
ofa
true
faith,
comming from
an
inward gift
of
the
fpirit,inclining the heart to
beleeve,
there
is
no other thing preparing to
juftification
immediately;
where
this
is,
there
together
in
time,
juftification
is
received; there the
fpirit
of
love
and hope are
not wanting
; Hee
who
beleeveth,isgaffed
from
death
to
life:
Neverthelel
%,
we doe long after, not
feele our felves juftified,
nor perceive Grace to dwell
in
us
fo fully and manifeftly
as
we delire.
Hence
it
is
that
fometimés we are
in
feare, fometime beleeve, hope,
fometimewe are
in
repentant
forrow,
and
by thefe we are
led
both
to
the
manifeft perceiving
of
that which
is
wrought
in
us, and
to
the more
full meafure
of
Peace
and Grace,
which we much delire.
z.
The
fecond queftion
then,
In what order Gods
power doth
bring
us
to
beleeve,
is
thus anfwered;
That
moft commonly
he
doth
in
force
kinde change us, and make
more fir,that
fo his
word
may be
revealed
in
us,which accompanied with
his
mighty power,doth bring forth that
fu-
pernaturall habit
of
faith, by which
he
doth
incline
us
to move
unto
him.
3
Now
for
the
third thing ;
Whether
this helpe
doth
leave
the
will
at
liberty