Mores hrs Selfs-deniall. 157 fully firengthen the Iran to any fervice orfuffering: As de!aare makes all Gods 1 formerdealings in his judgements with others, and Gods wayes carcérning it felfe, as prefent ro fetch rerr)r from them, fo Faith G ods mercies, to fetch comfortand ftrengthfr. m them. Secondly, Faith is a rating grace, it carries thefoule on high, above enfe, above reafon, above the world: when Faith is working , oh how is the foule railed, Bove the feares nd favours of men ! It is faid of Iehofaphar, 2 Chron.i7.. o. His heart a vas tifi lip in the wayes of God: Fai h Illsupthe beartin thewaies ofGod. Aman raildon high, feesall things under himas fm ;l.Eg fbifts eels us of a notable fpeech that lgnatïus ufed, when he was in his enemies hands , not tong before he was toiuffer,which argu- eda raif°d Ipirit toa ev,.nderf ull height above the world, and above himf:lf. I care (fayes he) for nothing vi(ìbleor invifible that I might get Ghrilf : let fire,the croífß'., the lettiigour ofbeafts 1 upon , breaking of mybones, the tea- ringof my members , thegrinding of my wholebody, and the tor.;ents of the 4, a .. . IeIiF,il vifibi-- liummoror, nibil inviFi_ biliu.m, ut Iersm Chri- acqrci- ram,ignis crux; incur- jus be1gia- rum, difflpx._ tto offllpn; convalfto membrarum, totius corpo. ris contmoli- tto,,u Jupplt - ctadZabslt in mc veräant, molo Ictm CYlíli t ac- gutram. Eu- (cb.l.;.c.;9
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