1 ttouo Ji'aít. 2$j the duff, or annihilate the World in a moment, muff be able to fubdue Sin. In the Prophet it is but the turn of his hand, I will turn my band upon thee and purely purge away thy drofs, faith God, Ira. 1.2 5. And which comes nearer to us,Faith is furejthat this Power doth not hand off at a diftance in the unapproa- chable Deity ; but is made over to Chrift, coming in the flefh, He was anointed with the Holy GhoJt and Power. The fulnefs of the God- head dwelt in him bodily. And going up to Heaven,he fate down at the right hand of Pow - er,all things being put under his feet. And which yet is nearer,this Power is made over to Chrift as truftee and treafurer for his Church; his Union is to run down upon all Believers : The fulnefs of the Godhead dwelt in him,that they might be filled with it.He fits at the right hand of Power, that his enemies, among which Sin is a chief one, may he made his foot(fool : All things are put under him, that he might be Head over all to the Church letting down his vital influences and motions to it ; his great defign is, to make an end of Sin, and to dif lve the works of the Devil. And now nothing re- mains to draw down this Power to the Be- liever, but the ading of Faith; as Faith goes up, Power comes down ; all things are pot-- fible to the Believer, he can do all through Chrift ftrengthening him : It is but to look and be la- ved, believe and be eftablifhcd, wait and re- new ftrength ; hang upon Jefus Chrifi, and he who was Immanuel, God with its in his Incar- natic.n,
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