of Faith. 251 dently, and powerfully, as the Heart cannot 'but clofe immediately ; Unbelief is not fo `i.itieh as heard to mutter: As it was with Matthew, when he was called, fitting at the Receipt of Cullom; how loon foever the Lord Paid to him, Follow me, there was fuck an Excellency, Love, and Lovelinefs in Chrift, as no Objections could be heardsor Rand be- fore the Power that was iffued forth ro draw him; yet fometimes again the Lord draws re- ally, and by the Bands of Love, and for a long. Time the Sinner, through the Objelions of Unbelief, is kept aback, that he cannot come till theft Mountains be levelled and made plain. 7. Step, By an AEt of Union, by which the :Soul is united to Chrift, and to apprehend that for which alfo it is apprehended of the Lord, by an efficacious Moving of the Will a&tually to dole with the Lord Jefus, to receive him. The Lord Both not only pre- pare the Soul for Chrifi, by making a Room for him in the Soul, which is done in Hu- miliation,nor yet only by openingof the Eyes to fee a Remedy and Way of Recovery, nor yet by inclining the Soul to move to- wards the Lord, nor by anfwering Of Ob- lations only But the Lord leads the Soul on in its Way, till it come to its End, and Center. The Lord never leaves, but fo pow- erfully and efpicacioufly preffes the Bargain, that
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