Hooker - BT780 H7 1637

204 3.Pa.pge. The souk". e eFluallealling roChrift, ding) by the fameright and authority there is a Paving kindeoflove and joybefore faith,whatfo- ever wee fpeake of the one, wee muffnecefl'arily fpeake oftheother. The third thing is this, wee mull underfland that all there faving workesof the of ea ons are no fan&ifying, (I call them faving, that is, filch workes as doe accompany falvation) for there is a difference betwcene alaving worke, anda fan- &tifying taken in the proper narrow fente ofit. Know therefore that delires and loves are ofa double nature, forne in vocation are obferved, fome in fanification are confìdered, as there was a forrow in preparation,& a forrow in fanái- fication, fo there isone delire and love and joy in vocation furred , another in fan&ification exprefl'ed, both joyne one with another, but they arenot the fame. The frame of the heart, and the worke upon the fouie in vocation, isnot the fame which is in fan&ification. Briefly,invo- cation in this call which I 1peake of, the Lord worketh thisworke upon me, I have nopower ofmy felfe, but onely receive it from the Lord. At the firfi conveying in ofthe power of hnpe, and delire, and love,and joy, God communicates them unto me, but in fan iification I worke from a principle which I have receivedfrom the power ofgrace, w'. ich Chrift hath commun°cated tome being called, and fanElified, and having received the Spirit ofAdoption : Sothat the graces I now fpeake of, ufhcr in and lead the way for the corn- tiling inoffaith;when faith comes into the foul, it

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