throttzhNaturall impollibilities. I 175 able to fpeak,, until! the clay that theft things ball be performed, 4ecaufe thou beleevell not my words, But what hind red him ? what kept him off from this work of beleeving ? you 'hall find at the IS,verfe ; too much atterdance unto , and confi- cieringof the meanes, and the deadnefle thereof. Zachary Paid unto the Angell, whereby fball I know this ? for I am an old man, and my wife well ftricken in years. He look's too much upon, and confidered, he ftood poring too.much upon the meanes ; and this was the enemy unto his Faith. You know Beloved , that the Scripture hath laid a fiat opposi- tion between Fairh , and fence. We live by Faith, fayes the Apoille , and not by fight, or by fence. The reafons drawn from fence, are fence : and when a man does live by reafondrawn fromfence, and bearesup his heart therewithall, he does live by fence. If you live by Faith , you don't live by fence : if you do live by fence, you don't live by Faith. They are as two buckets , the life of Faith , and the life of fence; when one goes up, the other goes down : the higher Faith rifeth , the lower fence and reafon : and the higher fence and reafon,the lower Faith.That is true of the fchooles, Reafon going before Faith , weakens, and diminifheth it : But Reafon following upon Faith, increafes and ftrengthcns it. I3efides,. you know Paul fayes ; Not many Wire Why not many wife called ? Thole that are wife , they confider the things of God , andof the Gofpel in a mete rationall way, and therefore not many wife are called: it hinders them from the worke of beleeving. Luther fayes well : If you would beleeve (fayes he) youmutt crucify that 9zeftion,why ? (jai Would not have 14,5 fo full of wherefores. And if you would beleeve, you muft go blindfold into Gods conimand.: Abraham fubfcribes to a blank , when the Lord called Lim out of his own Countrey. Befides, You know the great field that Faith hath to work` in; the large and vaft Orbe,and Sphear that it hath to move in. Faith can go into the Oldregament, and run up as high as Adarn,and come back again.to theSoul,and tel theSould have feene a man whom God hath pardoned that damn'd all the world
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