170 liNeciwuo fan. fir.ft, and before a progrefs made in grace, ju- ftifìcation and adoption are found in every believer, nay, and force meafures of fanetifi- cation , but higher degrees of grace and ma- nifeftations of Divine Love are not fo ; nei- ther do I mean critically to time, when each holy fruit buds forth , but only to explain the things themfelves. And here I fhall firf begin with the fa- `acities of Faith. There hath been a great fir in the world about wifdom ; Philofophers have hunted after it ; theezns have vainly cried up themfelves , nos fapientes, we are the wife men, fay they ; but in truth the on- ly Sage under the Sun is the believer. Upon Gods own furvey it was found, that there is none that underftandeth, Korn. 3. r r. none but the believer only, his knowledge is divine, all Arts and Sciences are but toyer to it,which occafioned the worthy Pitif us to fay , that he played in Mathematickr with hi rule and compai, but he fweat in Divinity ; his defigcà is the wifeft, he leeks a crown, a kingdom of glory : the Primitive Chriftians were wont to talk fo much of the kingdom, the kingdom, that the Pagan Emperors grew jealous of them; but alas, their aims were much higher, in companion whereof earthly Monarchs do but play' at pufh -pin about Crowns of duff , and fpend their time like Voinitian in catching flies ; the believer lea. - 'ving the world behind his back, pitches up- , heavn, and God, the heaven of heaves, in
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