3 16 TheSouleserEivall calling to Chrift. him, Now faith is appointed as that only meanes whereby the foule may bee fuccoured, and the heart furnifhed anew : and it is faith that cloth all thefe, and this is the excellencie offaith, and the goodof it, and the benefit that belongeth to faith in apccaliar manner, above all othergraces in the world : now that yee may fee how faith fuits a manwithall graces, take notice;thatthere ate three wayes, whereby the heart went away fromGod; and the fpirituall wants, which by 3. Sorts ofthis meanes befell the foule, ará three, all which fir, wants, faith fupplies to the foule aufwerably.. a The fsrfi and great want of the foule is this, it isgone awayfromGod, and the Lord is a ftran- ger to it : itwasmade for God,and to havecom- rnnnion with God ; but now it is gone from God,and God from it : thereare now many con- troverfies betweene the Lord and the foule : this is thegreat want, and this brings in all the reft now faith fupplics fuccour and anfwers to thefe necefiities.: faith bringeth the foule againe to God, and the foule to have a nearer union, and more inward fellowfhipwith God, than ever it had : thus the foule being anenemy toGod, and God an enemy ro it: and God being a ftranger to the foule, and the foule being a ftranger to the Lord : now faith doth this; it pitcheth the foule, and makes the foule ofaPoore finner to fall upon theveryDeity, and effenceofGod , firftly, and upon all the three whole perlons, as tonne Di- vines (that arenowwith theLord, leaving a re- membrancebehinde them) have interpreted it; which
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