Vim seule.r eeauallcalling toChrifl, le& is this; favingfaithisnopart of that holi- neflhwhich Adamhad, nor no part of-that image towhich weare reftored by fanáification : in a word, faith is a workeofeffe&wall vocation, and no part of fanáïfication, neither of the image in which Adam was created, or towhich wee are renewed, and this foliowes from the Do&nine thus : Ifit bee fo that faith is themaine efpeciall inf rument, whereby the foule goes to God to fetch a principle ofgrace, and the Imageofgrace whereby wee may live, then it is not the image which formerly wee had in Adam, nor towhich we are renewed againe in fanáification. But the firft is true, namely, that it is faith that goes to fetch that fpirituall power fromGod, which wee loft in Adam, therefore it is not that fpirituall power, this is the point ofinformation: Beloved in our SaviourChrift,I amnot ignorant that ma- ny learned godly judicious Divines, whoreparts I reverence, areofanother opinion, yet I remem- ber their different opinions and therefore 1 hope noman will be offended with mee, though I dif- fer from forne, for I muff needs differ from fome; and it bath ever beene my care not to trouble a popular congregation with any matter of dif- pute, and I hold that it rather fhould bee thecare ofMinifters towinne men to faith, than to trou- ble them withmatters ofthiskinde, and I hold it the grcatefl: part of zeale to ger them to holy hearts , and to exa& lives and converfitions Therefore I am marvellous hardly drawne on ro the leafl difpeste in this kinde, andyet at the V u a ear-
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