of Faith. 241 exalt Grace,' that the Believer may owe all his Salvation to Chrift alone, and that none might Ihare in the Praife with him There fore it is not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but of God that `fhezveth Mercy. Chril is not only a Saviour by _' Price, but Power ; and of him is both to will; and to do of his good Pleafurel that we may have no Oc- cafìon to glory at all, but that the Praifé of all may be to the Lord. (8.) The E t- perience of Saints, who have groaned un- der the Power of Unbelief, when called to believe, and looked up like Ephraim, 5er. xxxi. 19. to the Lord, under the Senfe of their Inability to come to him to draw them, Both make this Truth unqueflionable, And finally, if the Lord bath a fovereign Hand in ail contingent Matters of leis Con- fequence by far than Faith, fo as they can- not come to pafs without his pofitive Corn- mand .; - er. x. 23. fo as we cannot buy, fell, or go any Way without the Lord's Pafs as it were. yam. iv. 13, I4, I S. Much more, are not we to think that the Lord bath left a Bufineff of fuch Conf qr ence as Faith to depend upon Man's free Will : So that it is clear this Grace of Faith is not of our felves, but is from God in a ffeeial Man- ner. It is not momentous that is objeaed: by fome, viz That if Faith did proceed font God,
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