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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
329
in
our hearts,the
work
of Faith,
Beleeve, and
theta
fhalt
bee
Toyed
:
Now thee,
this,
work
of
Faith
; thou
rightly
know
What
is
is,
and the way óf thy beleeving
;
and
how
thou doll
receive Jefus Chrifl
in
thy
beleeving;
and the
power
of thy
Faith
how
that
is }wrought;
and what
the
work
of
it
is
uponthy
heart; now thou
having
laid
Chrifl for
thy
foundation,
and
underllöod
the
myflery
of the
Gofpel
thenWhen tliou coined
to beleévé,
in
this
great
myflery
of
the
Gofpel,
thoumuff
confider what
is
it
that
I
am
now
to
beleeve;
why
I
am now
to
beleeve this,
that
the
thoughts
of
God from
all
eternity were for
the
good
of
the children
of
men s
and therefore hee bath
fent
the
fecond
Perlon
in
Trinity into the
World
to
take
mans
nature
upon
him,
ro
die
an accurfed
death
for
the
fin
of
man
:
And
for mee
in
particular,
the
thoughts
ofGod
were
thus
upon me
from
all
eternity, to
fend
his
fon into
the world to take my
nature
upon him,
and
to
bee made
a
curie for my
fin
,
to
pay
a
price for
my
foul, and through
him
(when
I
beleeve) I
do
beleeve
all
my fin
to
bee pardoned,
the
infinite,
holy
,
dreadful God
tobee
at peace
with
mee,
my foul
to bee
re-
conciled;
this
wretched
finful foul
of
mine
to
bee
received
into mercy,
into the
love
ofGod,
as
the love
of
a
Father
to
bee made an Heir of
God
and Eternal
life,
when thou
doff
beleeve,
this is
the
Objet
of
thy
Faith;
now
this is a
mighty
work,
a
mighty
thing
to beleeve
filch
things
as
theft
are
:
Confider therefore
what
thou doefl, when thou fayeft
thou doll beleeve
in
Jefus Chrifl, put
that to
thq
foul,
canO
thou, O
my
foul,
dole
with
thefe things
?
cavil thou ven-
ture
thy
foul
upon fuch things
as
thefe
are
?
and when
thou
comet}
to
beleeve,
what doff thou
?
it
is nor
that
thou
thinkefl that
thefe
things
are true, but
thou doff
in thy
be-
leeving
receive Jefus Chrifl according to
the
condition
of
the Gofpel, that
is, thy heart doth
open
to
receive into it
the
King
of
glory; Oh
it
is
Chrifl
that
is
the
foundation of
the
New
World that
God
is
to
raife up
;
It
is
Jefus
Chrifl
that
brings in all
the
good, and
happinefs
,
and glory
of
God
to
the children of
men, and
it
ts;hee
that
my
heart
T
t
opens