296 pttiouo 'every part of the New Creature ; Love in the Spirit, as it is called, Col. r. S, and Joy in Spirit, and every other Grace in the Spirit, budding and bloffoming, and filling the face of the life with holy fruits. Only it muff be remembred, that this Dependence is in Gods way,where Chrift is experimentally Immanuel, God with us ; to ftir up all holy Graces into ad. Thus Faith aftuates Graces in a general way common to them all. I now proceed to thew how Faith actuates this or that Grace in par- ticular. And that I may not be too prolix in running over all Graces, I [hall tingle fome choice ones out inftead of all. Firft, I (hall begin with the Grace of Love. This is the great Command, the fum of the Law, a Divine Union with God, a bond of perfeiion among Men, a holy fire kindled by the Holy Ghoft in the Heart, and the fweet- nefs and ea[inefs of every good Duty. This Grace whether it refped God or Chriti,or our Neighbour,is actuated by Faith. As touching our Love to God, it is fo aCtua- ted. The very light of Nature reveals a God, an excellent per[e& Being, or the Being of Be- ings ; whole Love, as the Philofopher faid, is the principle and knot of the World, and fo cannot but raife up a kind of Love toward him ; the Will being neceffarily in fome fort aifeCed with fuch an Excellency, though Peen but by a glimmering light. Not that this Love is a Grace, or a Love in fincerity, or a Love Put
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