Thesoaales eteElaall caring ro Chrift. 3 2 I tofetch 3 foule, whereby he may live : thus it is punitually,the foule invocation goes toGod,and being come, it receives the fpirit of adoption, brings in the image offanfiification, which Adam had loft: land now the tanner is inabled to live in obedience untoGod fo. that in vocation we goe to God,and in adoption we receive the fpirit, the image offanEiification fromGod, and by fan- aification the fpirit brings new fpirituall powers fromGod to the foule : and fo the foule is inabled to loveGodabove all, and his neighbour as h im- felfè : now whether Adam had this faith or.no, I will not ftand to difpute in this popular congre- gation, but onely fpeake fo much as fhali be fèafo- nableand profitable. Therefore for the thing in hand, this I take tobe the excellency of faith, to goeout to God to fetch a fpirituall newprinciple of life and grace : faith faith, thou art dead, and muffhaveFfe,and thy life is tobe had only from God ; and therefore goe out, that thou maift re- ceive fpirituall lifefrom God : fo then, whenno other canbring it f ife life, faithbrings all other graces; now faith loth all thefe, not fo much be- caufeit goes to him that hath all life inhim: faith is the field, and the peerle is in it, and thehid treafure is in Chrifi ; and faith goes to God from whom it received all things, from theconfola- tion thereof ; this is the meaning of that place, 2 CO,. 3. 18. and to this it is to be referred, But sre all with open face beholding as in a glafe th? glorie of theLord, are channedinto the fame image fromglorie toglorie,even by the1birit oftheLord ti this difcovers Sf3 how
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