SEi. 14 Triumpli ofFaith -~ 3i their will ; they do hear and read t~e Word freely; nor are Men converted befide their Knowledge, as Cajaphas prophecied ; nor are we to think with Entbufiajls, that God doth all with one immediate Rapt, as the Sun -inits rife inlighteneth the Air. The Goipel worketh morally as doth the Law: Reafons work not in a Moment, as fire fla ughts in the Air : Chrift putteth Souls to weigh -..he Bu!!.ain, to confider the Field and the Pearl, and then buy it. 2.. Chrifi's · faving and calling the loft, is a new Creation as well as a Generation. A Child is not born in one Day; faving Grace is not Phyfick that worketh the Cure wh ile the fick Man is fleeping: Chrift cafteth the, Mettal in the Fire ere he form the Ve£fel of Mercy ; he muft caft down the old Worlc, ere he lay thenew Foundation. 3· Converfion is a Gofpel Bleffing, and fo muft be wrought in a WflY fuitable to the fcope -of the Gofpel. Now the fpecial intent of the Gofpel is to br~ng Men t~ p~t a high and rich Price upon Chnft, anq thts 1s one GoJP~t-offer : What thinkefl thou of fo exetlent a one as Chri.ft ? What wouJdeft t'hou p·art with? What woutdeft thou do or foffer for Chri.ft ? Now Men cannot frize l Chrift, who have not found the Terrors o the Law: So Paul finding himfelf the ch.ief of finners, and in that Cafe faved, I 'Iim. i. 1 5· muft hug and embrace Chrift, and burft out in a Pfalm, v. I 7. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invifibJe, the only wife God, be honour and ?;lory for e'ver and ever, Amen. A fight of the Gallows or the Ax, raifeth in the condemned Man's Heart, high Thoughts of the Grace of a pardoning Prince ; to be a Tenant of Free-Gra~_e I 2. • lS
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