of Faith. 263 experimentally convinced of this, That Faith is the Gift of God : If it be not Faith, yet, faith one, it is the Beginning of Faith for the Soul to come to, and wait on the Lord, to work it in them. Ufe 4. Hence, fee howmuch unfound and rotten Faith is to be found this Day a- among Profeffors. If the Faith of God's E- lea: be of the Operation of God, then e- very Faith that doth not proceed from God, every Faith that is of our own framing and hammering out, is an unfound Faith I know in him we live, move, and have our ,Being; and if any Prophet be deceived, I the Lord have deceived him. Whatever Aés of the Soul there be, whether gracious, or com- mon, or natural, they proceed from the Lord But mark, as there are force fpecial Works of Grace, which proceed from a fpecial Working of God's Spirit, wherein there is a fpecial Calf of his Hand; And as there are force common Workings of God's Spirit, which he works in both Good and Bad,and difpenfes by an ordinary Providence : Now then you who pretend to Faith, would do *ell to fee, whether it be not that common ordinary Faith, which is begotten by the Will of Man; or whether it be that fpecì- a,l Gift of God, which cannot be produced or wrought by the mere Strength of Nature, but by rte fpecial Operation Of God's Spi- rit. . 4 S n
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