140 ¡ ?Tbe Saints Spiritual) flrength. Anfir. 3. heate Both not appeare at all rimes, or at fome- times, it is becaate it wants blowing ; for when they have a juft occafion ro exercife the tirength of the inward man for Gods glory, they will (how that they have zeale in them, and be hot and lively to good , and not dead in fanne : for this is the difference betweene a man that is dead, and a man that is in a fwone, take a man that is in a fwone , if Aqua- vitae and rubbing of his joynts will not recover him it is a figne that he is dead,fo if the Word will not worke beare in you, it is a figne that you are more then in a fwone,you are at= ready dead in the inward man : it is laid ache A- damant it will not be heated with fire, fo I may fay, if the Word will not here you when you are rubbed with ir,is a figne you are like the Adamant dead unto grace. Secondly to this I anfwer,that howfoever tome men that are fanetified are not fo zealous as are force hypocrites, which is true; yet I fay it is no good argument to fay , that becaufe counterfeit drugs , and wares have the fame fent and find!, hot the good wares have , that therefore they areas good , or that the good wares have not the like; but it were better to fay that they have not the fame, and that the difference is in this, that the aff:dions have a falle dye and glefTe put upon them: and fo there is a Ede and counterfeit zeale, and there is a true zeale. As there may be yellow peeces counterfeit , afwell as yellow peeces true mettall, fo there may be counterfeit fire, as well as MI
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