38 TheDearine o fMortification, Nita. t . But you will fay, thereare divers kinder ofFaith What Faith is this then that thus purifieth the heart e..exfw. r . ByFaith inthis place is meanta 3uftifying Faith ; Faith that applyeth Chrift and his righteoufriefFe in particularunto a mans felfefor his juftification, and hereupon he israyfedup toholineffe,andenabled,out oflove unto Chrift, tomortifie finne. c orderof Now theorderofthis grace in a regenerate man; raith.n the is wonderfull ; for firft, theSpirit, which is the holy regenerate. Ghoft, comesandenlightens themind, then itworks Faith, and thenFaith drawes downeChrift,and when once Chrift comes, he takes pofleflionof it, never re. fling till he hath rid the heart of theevill difpofition of naturewitha loathingof it ; then the regenerate manhereuponoutof love unto Chriít,andhatred un- to 1 nne, begins tomortifiehis corruptions. odref. z.. But you will fay, Howcanthe Spirit of Chrift, which is the holy Ghoft, dwell in theheart, feeing he is inheaven nfw2 To this Ianfiver, that the Spirit dwells in theheart, H°" Chi rn the dwcls in theSunne in ahoufe nowwe know thatthe pro heart. perplaceoftheSunne is in the Firmament, yet wee Simile. fay the Sunne is in the houfe, not that wee mean that the bodyofthe Sunne is there, but the betimes ofthe Sunneare therein the houfe.: fowee fay, that the proper placeofthe holyGhoft is inheaven ; and when we fayhee is in the heart ofa regenerate man, wedoe not`rneane effentially, but bya divinepower and nature ; that is, by fending his Spirit intothe heart, notoriely to worke grace in the heart, but to dwelltherein. Nowwhen the Spirichath takenpoí fefiàon ofthe hearr,itdrawes and expells away all the Barked .,
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