40$ . The f cond Evokeof Dittinitie, CH A P. 7. And in thime heart. This is the Word of Faith which wee preach. But if God bellow faith vpon alt and euerie of his. EIe, what (hall wee then fay of Infants that die in the Mothers Wombe , or affoone as they are borne , who cannot , as it feemeth properly bee faid to haue faith, x Matt.t9.14. and yet neuerthele4% wee cannot deny but the x King- dome of God doth appertaine veto them ? If it bee cleere that Infants haue no faith , then wee mußt needs fay,the Spirit ofGod infome other vnfpeakeable man.. ner vniteth them vetoChrißt. 'But (yeelding all due re- fpea toother mensopinions) Í .(hould thinke that were rather a pare, then a ruled cafe : for Fir(, As theyhaueknowledge andother faculties of the minde, without which no reafonable foule coofißt- eth : fo I doe not fee but they may haue fupernaturall Grace,fome (cedes of the habite offaith for the appre- hendingof Chrilt, that are of the nature of faith and faith it felfe in a kind ( whichhow final' foeuer,fu1ñceth to faluation) doth the weaknes ofthe Organof the bo- die make it impoflible, forGod toworke fupernaturally in their foule ? And to giue to little children whom his purpofe is to faue , at the leaft fo much illumination of themind (more then is ordinarie for that age) as may bee fit to receiue theGrace of Çhrift ? Thofe, whom. in a moment and at an inßtant, as foone as they are taken vp into Heauen, bee filleth with a wholeSea of Know- ledge and Vpderftanding of Chriít, more then all the Prophets and Apoftic had whileßt they lined vpon the Earth can hee not immediately before , fprinkle them withone iot of Knowledge, as much Faith as the graine of a Mu(tard Seed; and make them by the tip of the hand of the foule, and, as it were, the fingers end, to touch him, whom they (hall immediately haue the full fruitionof? Secondly, The example of.lacoh is verie forceable for his,
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