182 The Spiritual-aUings of Faith time,-and the children ofladahprevailed,becaufe they relyedupon theLordGod of their Fathers.Or as force books have lt,becaufe theyflayed upon the LordGodof their fathers. The meanes was too fcanty, it was fliort ; they reflect upon God beyond the meanes, and fee what great fucceire they had upon this : they were but foure hundred thoufand,againfl eight hundred thou- land ; and they flew five hundred thoufandmen, So fbcceffe- full is this worke, and this way ofbeleeving. It is this faith that now I am fpeaking of; beleeving when all meanes faile, and lye dead before us : that does honour God efpecially ; which doth justify the foule : Ir is thefoule- raving faith ofall. Tray looke into the feventh of Luke, and confider it well, It is faid at the laft verfe, 7efits Laid to the woman, thy Faith hathlaved thee, go in peace : but here's no mention at all before of her Faith : There's mention ofher love, in the fourty feventh verfe, fay unto thce,herfins,Which are many, are forgiven,for fhe lovedmuch. There's mention be- fore of her teares, at the eight and thirty verfe. ellwoman in the City;Which was afanner , brought an Alabafler box ofoint- ment , andflood at his feete behind him weeping, and began to Wafh his feete With teares , and did tripe them with the haires of her head, andWedhis feete, and annointed them with the oint- ment. Here's mention of her tearer, here's mention ofher Liberality, and Bounty, and Love to Jefus Chrift : and yet our Lord and Saviour Chrift, doesnot fay thus : woman , thy teares bath faved thee , go in peace : Woman thy Repentance, and thy Humiliation hath laved thee, go in peace, he doth not fay, thy Love to me, and thy Bounty to me hath faved thee, go in peace, woman : No, but our Lord and Saviour, hefaw a fecret worke of reliance upon himfelfe in this woman, for file was a great firmer, and he fayes unto her, woman, ThyFaithhath faved thee, goe in Peace. This is thefoule-faving faith, thus to beleeve when all meanes faile, and feeme to lye dead before you. Surely therefore , to do thus, ,mull needs be exceeding p:eafing to God, andmolt ac- ceptable. And fo I have done with thole three Propofitions : and now come to the Application, If
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