242 Vie airplay of VogoU Duce: or, ` fore Faith can be there. ThereforeFaith is G.a.5.22. called, The Fruit of the Spirit ; Man is paffive in "Regeneration, or in God's infufing the firmPrinciple, Root, or Habit of Faith, and of all Grace in him. 4. This implies, that we were once not aaually God's People. (notwithftanding the Defign and Purpofe of Grace that was in his 4r49.25 Heart concerningus ;) Iwill call them my Peo- ple, which were not, my People ; and her Belo- Hoí2.33. ved,' that was not Beloved ; that, is, that were not aaually his People, nor own'd and ac- knowledged fo to be, we loft this Relation to God by the Fall : when God ceafed to be our God, by wayof Special intereft, weceafed to be his People. 5. They (hall be my People ; this denotes the certainty of their Special Vocation, and of our being his People for ever ; FIefh.all fee his Seed, all that the Father bath given to me;!hall come unto me ; that is, they lhall belicA in me, dre. Now in fpeaking unto this Promife, Grant, and Priviledge. 1. I wall firfl "hew you in what Refpea, or Conjideration we may be faid to be God's People. 2. Shewyou what ind of People God's Cove- nant People are ; I mean filch that are aatially owned to Je his People. 3. Show you what a great Bleffing this is. 4. Apply both thefe great Priviledges toge- ther. I thall wavefeveral Acceptations, bywhich a People may be called God's People, that
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