etiouz gait» "but that they Ihould be actuated ? Unto " what was I created in Chrift, if not to good " works ? I find nothing but vanity in my " fell and my own ways, and thall I not walk "in Chrifi and his holy Graces? If I follow "him fully, thall I not fee the Heavenly Ca- " naan at lafi, and there receive a Crown of " Life ? Such a Pattern fo preffed on a Belie- ver muff needs be a thong motive to the exer- cife of Grace. The Apafile would have us run our race, looking unto Jefius, Heb. 12. 1,8" 2. Fancy, as Naturalifis tell us; hath done firange things; a Woman much looking on a beautiful Picture brought forth her Child very like it, as Galen relates,to be lure : Faith looking un- to jefus brings forth his Image in the Heart and Life. Thirdly, Faith holds out the Promifis as in- centives to the work: The Believer is an Ifaac, a Child of Promife ; the new Creature with its Graces is born of the Covenant, and ever after lives upon it. Every Grace bath force Promife or other to feed on. Love hath God d welling with it ; Fear hath his fecret ; Meek- nefs his Salvation ; Patience a crop of Com- forts ; and all of them have an entail of Eter- nal Life. And when Graces are aCted there is a Promife of encreafe, 7o him that bath, that is, ufeth Grace, more ¡hall be given, more of the fame Grace ; his Talent {hall be doubled, his Path (hineth more and mare to the perfeli day in Heaven; and withal more of the Divine In- dwelling, Secret, Salvation,and Comfort pro - mifed ;
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