'TheSaint! finne is turned iricogall, and the glory of the whole world to rhe eye of our faith, appeares to be nothingbutdung) vanity, nothing. - AfiftTmiaii 5· Fifthly~ Saving faith is the rootandfountaine . ;;!~:~~~~~aith. of fancHfication, . and therefore if we finde our pgflibituPut felvestobe fanfrifi~d:, - we may be affured that wee b~tbellt in ft t~~ifi · 1 b 1 · c 6 1 · r. "d r1 6 quidmj,zfliti.e, avmgy e eeve~ 1 -or. •u. t ts 1a1 , A"~o2 • 17, p_,ufit j11jJitiar 1 18. thatPaHIWasfenttoopellthe-rye~of vten, that the; P14liU'eJ Orig.ad fltit,ht t1tr1Jefrom d4rkgleffe to light, t.nd from the-power !6~~~;~;~:;. ·of satalf. unto God) th~tt the; might receive forgivenejfo '1uhacart.um. ofjitJnet, a?JdinheritancetttnMg them which areJe~nf1ified by f't1ith. Tme and jufiifyingfaithdoth ever be– get ishh:n whom it poffelfeth, a;fanetificarion of aUparts, both in foule and body, rh01agh-not of ·perfection. By this holy worke of fanfrification; aman fhall finde himfelfe as farre differ from what he was before; as aValley-from aMonntaine, the ftrait from the crooked, the foftneife of fldh,from– the hardnelfe of flint, the nature of water, from ·the fubfl:anc~ of Diamond. For it makes a great change and ·alteration in the powers and faculties both of foule and hody, in all the parts and paf. figes of this life. His under(tanding is inlightnecL f withknowledge in thegreat myfieryofgodlinelfe-,. and in the fecrers ofGods Kingd0me., which -are, hid from the wife J and menofunderftanding, and the greatefl: part of the \Vorld, Mat. 1 I.: 5. Hiswill ·· is nowbent to the befi: things : Hismemory J which before was like a Seive, and let o~t ·the water of _life as it was powred in, isnow a fiore~houfe for. heavenly rreafures. The frreameof his affections is turned from the world, andpurfuit of pleafure~, - towards
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