586 Verf. 19. n E.:-pc ;ition upon the Book of Jos. Chap. 37. Seventhly, About the power and workingof grace in them, e- fpecia ly of that grace of Faith. If we wan: the grace of Faith, we know not how.to order our fpeech before God, nor can we come to God without faith (Hob. a 1.6.)& i we want the knowledge of thefe things,wve muaneeds want faith in them, or rasher in God concerning them.A dark foul is a confufed foul; how then.is it poflìble that he fhould order his fpeech before Gód,whoishirnfeltconfuted& out of order ?Perfons muff be well compeled, beforetheir ac`lions, fpeechesor addref- fes can. Therefore if you would have free accefs toGod, and or- der your fpeech before him a:irhr, labour for a clear light, or as the Apofile fpe.kes ( Cal. 2. 3.) for the full affuranceofronder- .- ,ir, to the acknowledgment of the mu/cry of God,. and of the Fa< a -d of f hrifi ; that is (as I conceive ) of God the Fa- ther, in and through his Son, our Lord J:tds Chrifl. That's the great f?uuy, andglory of Chriflians;. they have the moll excellent fubje& in the world toRudy upon, and grow up in the knowledge of. Other Sciences confider and contemplate the Creature, and the things of this Life; but Chriflianity winds up the foul to the meditation of the Creator in theMediator, whom to know is Eternal Life. Fourthly, As darknefs is confidered in theObjeeo:, Note; 7hethi'- s ofCod arefo wyfer'iour, that we know not how to !peakof themai we ought e Or, There is a daknefo ira the oIrd, Wales andWork! ofGod, which we ca ,not over- come. The befl have not light enough to look through all thedark-nefs axed,obfcuriry th It is in the, Wotks and Wo: d of God. I do not affirm this, to caR that repro=ch of obfch:iry unon the Wo-d of God, which the Pap'fis do The Word of Go .! bath in it abun- dance of light, ye:, tit, a li ;hr ; there is enough in it fo plain, that any who have any True l: tir, r-.e touchcf ir,ánd be able to or- der their fpeech,comfe ompetently,that is,acceptably, before God about it. Yo (bete is array{ erìcus darknefs in many parts of the Word an Woks of God, which our light is not clear enough to matter anc, get th , r gh. God bath'purno'ely done and fpoken forne things, which (tond as fecrets, which our eye
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