4 34 The soueslea:tall ealliragtaChrifi. r/'e 6. contented and comfortable, though all honours, and the like had beetle taken from thee; but alas, this is our mifety, wee lit downe Rahell like, and will not bee comforted, becaufe honours, and friends, and merges arenot ; well, got thy way, thy faith is naught, it never as yet retied upon a Chrifl : who would have continued any com- fort to thee ? The conciufion is this, the foule mutt bee perfwaded by tf-c fpirit of t17 Father therefore nothing is theauthor of faith, but the Lord. Faith mull come from Heaven, and from theSpirit ofGod, in the V 'ord,ifever thouhave that faith which will doc thee good. Secondly, the foule was effe&ually perfwaded, and there- fore chufeth a Chrill wholly. Thirdly, it refis upon his free grace, and therefore is fully con- tented with it. In the next place, it is a wordofjofl reproofe, and the former Doctrine is abill of Inditement againfi multitudes of men, that were never yet partakers ofthisb'.ef ed workeofGrace ;they are not far off, but in the very boforneof the Church of God, they are to this veryday unfaithful!. It is a foolifh delufion of many, who thinke that onkly Sithians, and Parthians, and Turkes, and Pagans ,want faith; this is an idle dreame, and a doating conceit , and prevailes too much even with thofe that thinke themfelves force body, and are in high places Oh, let not this delufion prevaile withyour judgements, for the former blot ninecomes asa fwifc witneffe again ft filch as Tooke
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