282 3 etíou.g Matto: nation, will be Immanuel, God with us in fuch fufficient Grace as fhall give us the viaory o- ver Sin ; the fuccefs is as fore as the Spirit and Power of God can make it. When Chrift was on Earth never any one came to him for bodi- ly Cure, with a Faith that he was able to do it, but it was done for him. Now that he is in Heaven at the right hand of Power, fuch as go in Faith for Spiritual Cures cannot mif- carry. What though the bloody ifl'ue of Sin have been long a- running ? a touch upon Chrift will heal. What if thou haft lay'n rot- ting in thy Corruptions many years ? believe and thou fhalt fee the glory of God railing thee up; 'a dependence on the Power and Spirit of Chrift cannot fail of a victory over Sin. So vaft is the difference between the flare of Adam in Innocency, and the (late of Be- lievers in Chrift ; in him one Sin drove out a great hock of pure immaculate Grace in a mo- ment, in them a little fpark of Grace drives out a world of Sin ; becaufe their Grace, which Adams did not, depends on the Power and Spirit of Chrift for the victory. This is a molt noble and purely Evangelical a& of Faith, in which Man is abafed 'in a continual dependence, and God exalted in a continual fupply of Grace. However, fame Divines, falfly fo called, have laughed at the depen- dence of Faith as an idle lolling upon Chrift ; it is yet the only way in which the Spirit and Power of God communicates to our necefiities, and does far more in the Chri- Wr..rrr.r
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