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Ow
the l:
xcek'ency.
of
the
Sold.
ÿof
God,
and
therefore
wee
had
need
walk with
fear and
trembling
before him.
Sixthly,
Further,
If
thou
wouldeft have thy
foul
faved ,
attend
upon thofe
means
that
Cod
bath hppoinred
to
fave
fouls,
watt
at wifdömes pons.
Now
this one
dire6tion being
clearly fhewn
-out
of Scripture, will
be enough
to confute all
that talk
ágainfi-
doing:
If
God hath appointed
means
to
fave,
then
fùrely bee hath
appointed
that
wee muff
attend
upon
thofe
means. Now in
Rom;
r.
16.
The preaching
of
the
Gofpel there
is
called,
The
power
of
Cod
to
falvatton.
Now
if
you
would
bee
Paved, you muff bring
your fouls
un-
der
that
which
is
the power
of
God to,
falvation Becaufe
the
Lord
in
the
Minitlty of
the
Go':pel Both
ufe to put forth
his Almighty
Power for the
Paving
of
foals
,
therefore-
it
is
that
the
Gofpel
is
called
the power of God
to
falvation
you
cannot
be
Caved
without theAlmightyPower
of God,
and
where
is
that put
forth
-burin
the preaching
-of
-the
Gofpel?
To
whom is the
Arm
ofthe
Lord revealed
?
That is,
the
Arm
óf_
God
in
theyreaching.ofthe
Gofpel
;
fo you
know
what
the
Apo(fle
faith, in
Rom.
to:
Faith
comes
by
hearing, and
hearing
by
the Word
of
God:
You
will
fay,
can
wee do any
thing towards
'.
our falva-
tion
?
yes,
you
may hear,
it
is
the
du
:y
of
us as
creatures
to
come and hear
the Word;
-and
Faith
comes
by
hearing:
fo
then
Faith
coatis
by
fotimewhat
that
wee
do,'
but
not
fo
that
Godhath
-tied
himfelf to
give
Faith
to
every
one -that
hears,
I
would
not
bee
underllood
fo
:
But
-thus,
God
bath
appointed,
that
-
hearing (bold(' bee
a
means
for
the
work-
ing
of
Faith;
It
is
true;
-
it
is
the
Melling
of God
in hearing,
bur hearing
is
the way
that
God hath
-fet
;
God indeed
can
convey Faith from Heaven
to
any
-.foul-
immediately;
I
but
where
there
is
the
preaching
of
the Gofpel, there do
I
ex-
pecR
that
thefe creatures
that
do
intend that
I
fhould
work
Faith
in
them,
Iliould come and
attend
upon the preach-
ing
of the Gofpel
: Chrifit
could have
opened
the
blind
mans
eyes, without fpitting
upon
the
clay,
and
anointing
his
face, but
bee would
have
that-done, and that
tuft bee
the
R
r
3
means
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