, 42 Moriattet faith . tentates of the World ?or Rain his glory,which is more precious than the light of the Sun, Moon and Stars? or trample on that precious Blood, which paid my ranfom from Hell and Death ? or grieve away that Spirit which is the life of all my Graces and Comforts ?or pol- lute this Heart, which may be a Temple or Tabernacle for the Holy One to dwell in ? or run my fell again into the pangs of the New Birth,, and forget the .wormwood and gall of my old Sins, and eclypfe the light of Gods Countenance towards me, and lye down in the difmal borders of Hell and Death ? How can I do it? Such a refiraint as this,is a degree of Mortification ; Sin begins to die; when fuch chains and manacles as thefe are.cafi upon it.' Secondly, Faith cloth not only refirain the outward aW of Sin, but flrikes at the life of it ; that is, the love thereof ; and to this end Faith clearly demonfirates, that Sin is not eli- gible, or an objet fit for an Humane Will;Sin (hews it fell as eligible many ways, but Faith deftroys all thole eligibilities. Take Sin as meer Sin in the abflrac`f, and fo it is evil and only evil; and as the Schools generally deter- mine, Sub ratione mali, it -is not, it cannot be eligible at all ; and yet even in the notion of meer Sin, it becomes eligible, Sub ratione con - venientie, as it is congruous to the corrupt Heart of Man. The Socinian and Pelagian Errors are welcome` meerly as Parafites to the pride of Keafon and Will. In Sins of °milli- on,
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