the EInflle to the Galatian1. Chap. 5. and repentance. This beeing done , wemutt ref1 upon the bareword and teflimonieofGod , without, and againft fenfe, and feeling : and quiet our hearts therein , both in life and 1 death. 5 Secondly , faith in Chrift mua raigne and bearefway in our hearts,andhaue the command ouer reafon,will,affeelion, lull. And by it whatfoeuer we doeor fuller , fpecially the maíne a ¿lions ofour liues,are to be ordered, and difpofed. Laflly, it is a thing to be bewailed, that the common faith of to our dales is but a Ceremonial! faith , conceiued without the ordinarie manes and feuered from the excrcifes of inuocati. on,and repentance. The third conclufion is, that true faith workes by loue.. Hence the Papills gather, that loue is the forme and life ofd 15 faith, not becaufe it makes faith to be faith; but becaufe it makes it to be a true faith, a good faith, a liuely faith. But this their doarine is talle , and amnions. For faith is the cauleof loue, and loue is the fruit offaith.s.Trm. r.5.Loue oat ofour, heart,good con/dente,, andfaithvnfained. Now euery caule as it 20 is a taule, bathhis force and efficacie in it (elfe, and receives no force or efficacie from his effetLSecondly, true faith is liuely and effeauall in it felfe,andhacha peculiar forme of his owne, and that is a certen power to apprehend Chrifl in the pronrife. For in faith, there are two things, knowledge, and apprehcnfi- 25 or.which force call application , or fpectall affiance, which af. fiance becaufe the Papitis cut off,they are conftrained to make a fupplie by loue. Thirdly,theoperation of faith(according to the do ìrineof the Papift)is toPrepare and ditpofe,a firmer to his future iuftification. Now, if this operation be from loue, 30 then loue is before iuftification: and that cannot be: becaufe(as they teach)iuflification (lands in loue. Loue therfore is not the forme offaith. They alleadge for themfelues this very text in hand, where it is laid, faith worketh 6.7 loue: ot (as they translate it)faith is at-led andmoonedby lone. Anj. The meaningof the 35 text is, thatfaith is effeftuall in it feltè : and that it (Lewes and puts forth his efficacie by loue, as by the fruit thereof. And it cannot hence be gathered, that faith is ailed and mooned by', loueas bya formall taule. Againe,theyalleadge,Iam. 2.26. As the 6oelie is deadwithorit the /pirit: (o is faithmithout worker. A"í 1. The foule ofsrtan is not 383
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