necíauo 3aííí}. emblem of Humility. Dying - Sardis he puts upon flrengtbening the things which remain;and Neutral Laodicea upon Zeal, to give her a trail warmth in Religion. Still the advice runs upon the contrary Grace ; the more that is actuated, the more it roots and fpreads in the Soul , and the lets room and place is left there for the contrary Sin : which I fuppofe was the reafon why the Presbyter Sulpitiu Se- vents, being guilty of too much Loquacity, andan. ever after kept filence ; fit peccatum, quod lo- nnal. quexdo contraxerat, tacendo emendaret, as the rift.Eth. HiLlorian expreffes it. '1 is a Precept of the Philofophers, Io obferve what Vice we are mo f propenfe to , and then to bend our [elves to the contrary extream, that we might come to the Vir- tue in the middle. Faith, though it dares not touch upon one contrary Sin to cure another, would cart them both out by ailing the con- trary Grace. Laflly, Faith mortifies Sin in a way of de- pendence upon the Power and Spirit of God in and through 7eftts Chrift. In the Covenant of Works, in which there was no Mediator, Man flood on his own bottom, and had all his flock in his own hands : But in the Covenant of Grace the Believer Rands in the Power of God ; and though he have a little Grace in himfelf, the main flock is above in .a furer hand ; hid life is bid with Chrift in. God ; there's the great treafure out of which Faith fetches fupplies of the Spirit for every good work ; hessce.in Scripture he is laid, To love, live, pray, walk,
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