12;ecißuo ,aítb> pith) inter mirabilia legis, one of the wonders of the Law; and yet Faith in the Gofpel -grace will reach it. Hence itis obfervable,that when our Saviour bids his Difciples to forgive evert [itch as trefpa fr againft them f ven times in a day; They reply in a Prayer,Lord, encreaje our faith, Luk 17.5. becaufe Faith will move Love into aft even in the difficult duty of forgiving o- thers. Another Grace aauated by Faith is holy Fear of God ; the very light of Nature revealing fome glimmerings of his Greatnefs and Ju- ftice raifes up a Fear of him : The Barbarians peeing the Viper on St. Pauls hand cried out of a Amt, a revenging juJtice ; as if he had been a murderer, ACt. 28. 4. Pythagoras begins his Golden Verfes with Veneration of the Gods. A- mong all Nations there bath been a QoEoátia, a fearing of God. The ancient Gauls out of re- verence to their gods would not touch the confecrated Gold lying in their Temples.Upon the fame account there were among many Ethnicks, Nudipedalia facra, barefooted dev,p- tions. Only this Fear was in it fell but fervile, and further corrupted by falfe opinions of the Deity, and :hence fprung all that devßtd'cuµerhe, rnorfhip or fuperi ition which was among the Heathens : The progeny of their ancient The- mans, their Charms and Exorcifms, their Fe- fivals and Purifications, their Lutirations and human inhuman Sacrifices, and all their ftrange Rites and Ceremonies of Adoration, whereby they endeavoured to flatter and compound with 30!
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