The Saints Spiritual firength. tat be hid as dead and forgotten , but the Spirit will return; and you fhall finde your power to good againe. The fourth way whereby the Spirit flrengthens 4, pro*. grace in the foule,is, by giving efficacy and power unto the meanes of growth, which is a fpeciall meanes for the flrengthning of the inward man, for as he fets up the building , and furnifheth the roornes, and gives power unto the foule to ufe them, fo that which makes all there effeetualJ, is this , when he gives power and efficacy unto the meanes that are for the hrengthning of the inward man : now you know that the Word is the onely meanes to worke new habits, and qualities in us, to call us and beget us unto Chrih. And if the Spirit fhould nor adde this unto it : namely,effica- cy,it would never beget us unto Chriít : therefore this is the meanes to make all eff'e uall, it gives a blefling unto the meanes of grace ; the Word a- lone without the Spirit , is as I told you , but as a fcabberd without a f word , or a fword without a hand , that will doe no good though you fhould hand in never fo much need , therefore the Apo- stle joynes them together, t.Aé1. 20.32. he calles AR. :o. ; :. it the Word of hù grace , that is, the fpirit mutt worke grace by it, or elfe the Word will nothing availe you. Again; prayer is a meanes to flreng- then the inward man, but if the Spirit bee not joy ned with ir, it is nothing worth, and therefore the holy Gh.oft faith, pray in the holy Ghoft, that is, if you pray not by the power of the holy S 3 Ghoft,
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