The Saaele.r e3toallcaflirz.g teChrift, 375 meane fpirituall power, then let us all know ir, and co-clude it, that it is not only hard aaddif-fi- cult,but alío impofhble for man, from any power ofhis owne, to refs upon Gods promifes by the worke of faith; it is true indeed,we candoe thus much, wee can fettle our felves upon our owne bottomes,and reft our felves upon our owne fill ficicncie, and ifa man have parts and gifts, wee can, wee doe naturally limy our felvesuponchef broken props, andour fouies goe that way natu- rally, as heavie things naturally goe downward, this we can doe out of the power ofcorrupt na- ture,thus weare our felves, and we reft uponour felves g ina word, when aman findes parts, and gifts and meanes,and then to reí}uponGod, and tocataway all carnall çonfidence,and to calfour felvesupon the free graceofGod, it will coil us much worke to doe it, nay it is beyond all our power,it is the workeofGod todoe it : I fpeake this the rather for thefe twoends; Firff, to cruih that vaineconceit ofa company of poore igno- rant creatures, that make it a matter ofnothing to beleeve in to e Lord Jefus Chrifl, and chinke it is all one to beleeve, as to fay theybeleeve,Oh theybeleeve in their fweet Saviour, and man nor Devils (hall not perfwade them to the contrarie hence is that fpeech ofa poore creature, ftanding by a man ready todye, when a Minifler ofGod, whowas there,did exhort him to refl. upon the promife, and urging him to many things that way, and the poore creature complaining much that hee could not beleeve, here upon his carnal! Bbb a friend
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