4 5 8 The sQnlzs ef., frífuall calling to Chrift. nater come home to their families, and catechize them.Oh,fay they, we are pact children, wee are not fchooleboyes ever, you cannot helpe your felves;nor you will not fitfer us to helpe you,you are thus ignorant, and this ignorance & faithcan- noti}and together 5 hence it is that the promifes of God,and Chrifl,and grace, as thefe fubilantiall truths of falvation, and the truthsoftheGofpell, they are as a lealed letter to them; take away the nameofCl rift, and the name of fume, and the nameoffaith, and the truths that are under thefe names, and the moll ignorant creature under. flands themnot, it is almoti impoffible to thinke that men fhould be fo defperatly ignorant; you that are matters of families, when you come home, catechize your families, and fee whether they are thus or no; this ma bee where faith is not,yet faith cannot be,where faving knowledge isnot in force meafure, I meanewhere theknow ledgeoffpirituall truths isnot, which may reveale to the foule the wayofgrace,and themeanes how toget it. I take it, that there three things mutt bee in force meafure apprehended of every man that bath any faith : 1~ irft, he mutt havea through knowledgeofhis fnne, andofthewant offaith, and ofChrift, and all. Secondly, he mutthave the knowledgeof the exctllencieand goodneffe ofa Chrift, whichhee wants, and he mutt know the Lord jefus Chrift and the good things in the Lord Jefus Chrift, which
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