firmer toGod, but it is as a hand to communicate from God to a firmer, whatfcever fiiritoall good it needs,and thisonly faith can doe. Marke it, I beseech you, a man that is dead in fnne, and fbon d be brought to forme tpjrituall good and lie,h?muffeither live by hintfelfe or by another; but b, him;elfc bee carmor, _br caufe a deadmar cannoá live byhimfeife : but every mien is fpiri- tuallydeadbynature, andofhimfeifc bee cannot live,and, thereforehe muff goe to arother,which is God;hemiff g ve life, and therefore he muff beieeve in antôther, and receive die fpirituall graceand power from that living gracious God, to wake more cleerly in a good c;aurfe 3 this is the intent ofall theft: phrafes in Scripture, Gal. 2. 2o. the texofaith, Iiivc,but how? it is by faith in Chriff, Chrifl lives in him, and be in Chriff faith is notfo much the foule ofaChrif}ian, but faithEnables aman to liveby Chrif1, whom it ap- prehends : therefore Saint P.01 to the Hebrewes faith, 1Web. a r. 6. Without faith it if implitle to pleafeGnd: it is Paid ofEnoch that he walked with God,anddid thereby pleafc God ; but hbw came lie to doe it ? by faith bee did ir. Nownoman can yceid obedience to Gods cornmandernenr, and theneb pleafe God,except hegoe to Godby faith, and receive power fromGod, thereby to pleafeGod : I take this tobe a truth,that in pro. prieries oflanguage and fpeech,faith (as wee now fj:eakeof it) is not any part of the fpirituall life and foule ofa Chrif}ian, but a fpirituall inflra- uaent andengine,whereby the fourgoes toGod to
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