ABoxiofpreeintsVintwert well ; Non barium fed bent agere, Not to do good, :but lode it well, is the great wifdom of a Chriftian ; what islheSuni without light, or the fountain without water, or the'body without the foul, or wood without fire, or a bullet without a gun, or a Ship without a rudder ? no more are words in! prayer, without the fpirit of prayer. .God looks more at the manner, than at the matter of your prayers. And: let thus much fuffice to confirm the firil particular. But, Secondly; That obedience that fprings from -faith, is an obedience that is only grounded upon the Word of God, the Commands of God,Pf. r a 9.4,5.Thoshaft commanded eis to keep thy precept: diligently ; 0 that my ways were direded to keep thy Statutes ! Ifa. 8. 20. To the Law and to the tefiimony, if they fpeak not accordingto this word, it is becaufe there ,u no light in them. Mat. 5. i 8. For verily I fay unto yon, till heaven and earth pale., one jot or one tittle /hall in no wife Ws from .the Law, till all be fulfilled. John io. 35. If he called them Gods, unto, whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken. Chap. al. 48. He that rejedeth me, and receiveth not my 7'ords:., bath one that judgeth him ; the word that I have fpokre, the fame (hall judge him, in the laft day. 2 Tim. 3. x 6, 171 All Scripture is given by infpiration of God, and is profitable for dodrine , for reproof for corredion, for infirudion in righteoqfilefs, that the man of God may be per felt, thromohly fiernilhed unto all good works. -Now the reafons why that obedience that fprings from faith, is an obedience that is only grounded upon the Word of God; the Commands of God, are thefe five. And the lira isdrawn from the fupremacy andToveraignty of God, who-alone is to prefcribe to man his duty ; he is our great Lord and Matter, he is our Lord and Law-giver, Ifa. 33. For.the Lord is oar fuelge, the Lord is our Law-gi- ver,the.Lord is our King, James 4. 12. There is ore Law-giver, who is able o fave and to de/troy who .?rt thou that judge another.? Now by the Laws of this Lord-and LaN- giver,we malt fquare all ouraaions. Look, as it would be very abfurd in a fervant to do that work which he thinks meet, .arid not what his Ma- iler, P.
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