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phetíouo NM* Chriftians life than any thing elfe : Only we muff remember, that this dependence is in the ufe of means ; the Believer hears, reads, medi- tates, prays, works, and in all depends upon the Spirit to render them effe1ual. CHAP. X. Of Spiritual Vivification,the fecond Part. Of SanCtification,the influence of Faith therein. far of Mortification as a fruit of Faith. now proceed to Vivification, being the other part of Sanctification. In which the holy Spirit comes down with its Divine Gra- ces into the Soul, and quickens it to a Spiri- tual Life. Thefè Graces may be confidered ei- their in their produl;ion into being, or in their actual exercife; and both ways they are fruits of Faith. As to their produEtion into being, Divines differ about the order; dome Divines, as Mr. Pemble,conceive, That all Graces are in- fufed at once, coming' into us as light cloth into the air, or as the Soul did into the body of La- zarus, not piece -meal or by degrees, but all at once and together. Other fet down this order, Vocation which werk th Faith and Repentance, is in order of nature before Juffiftcation, and Jufii- fçation before Sane ification, Bifhop Domnbam di- 283

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