458 TheSot.les Pfeáuall calling toChrift. f,ocn (ay:ng faith ; therefore that the inditement may lie_ckare, and that we mayoutbid him in his booke learning and all, know thus much, the maine ground ofthis mans m :{take may bedifco- vered thus : thereare two things in the nature of faith : pirft, illumination : Secondly, applicati- on, as wee rearme it; illuminationnot onely is, when a man bath the common rumours, and in- timations of the truths of God, intheGofpell, and knowcs thereaf>n of the texts, and the mea- ningof thcfcriptures,this the reprobatemayhave and this he bath ; but there is alfo anoperationof the Spirit upon the affections, and then there comes an application, wherein the foule goes out to the promife, and rakes that forhis göod, which is thereunto appointed : nowobferve this jud cions man, hee bath a generali apprehenfion of the truths oftheGofpell 5 but as for that fpeci_ all working upon the will, and toenter in upon the promifes of God, a d to have the fap and Tweet of there, and ro goe out to Chrift, and to take all fromChrift, he is a {ranger to this and it goes beyondall his booke learning; and hence it is that when theMinifter comes tohandle there points, he faith the Miníffer was fomethingcon- fufed today; and the reafon whyhe faith fo, it is becaufe bee did not underftand them ; there men are ignorant in the fpirituall turnings oftheheart, lohn3.8,9.when Chrift came to teach Nicodenu a, hewas at a loffe, and thought that Chrift fpoke without booke : therefore Chrift reads thele&ure sgaineand faith, I fpeakeof the fpirituall worke, that
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