,-. SEit; 2 t Triumph of Faith~ 2.7o .of_ Chri~'s Enemies, ~nd may by prayer bjnd Kmgs m. Fetters, c~am up and confine Devils, fi1boue kmgdoms. Great is thy Faith,] For the clearing of thefe vVords ; we are to confider three Points, 1. What Faith is : 2. What a great Faith is: 3· Why he :faith thy F_aith, appropriating it to the Woman. Now of Faith, I {hall fpeak, I. A Word of Preparations for Faith : 2. Of the Grounds and nc:- ceffary M_otives to Faith : 3· Of the Ingredients of Faith: 4· Of the Sinnt>rs Warrants to believe. 5. Of divers Sorts of falfe, and itl rooted Faiths. I. There be fome Preparations which go before Faith. 1. Faith is a Seed of Heaven, it is not fowen by the goorll!usbandn,zan in unplowed, and in Fallo::.v ground, Cbrijl[inutb not amongft '£horns ; we are buitded on the Faith, Stones are hewen, R ubbif11 removed before one SiOne be laid. 2. Every AB: of Grace in God, is an AEl: of Omnipotency, and fo requireth not Time or Sue- . ceffion ; God might hav~ fet up the Frame of the World in- all its Fulnefs, with lds than one Thought, or AH ot his Will put fi>rth by Omnipoten~y : Yet did our Lord fubjed: the Acts of creating the firfi: World to the Rule of Time, and to a' Circle ot Evening and Morning, Nights and Days; fo doth the Lord fet up a new World · of Faith, in a Soul void of Faith by Degrees : There's a Time when there's neitherperfeEl: Night, nor perfeCl: Day: But the Twilight of the Mornin!'!, and God notwhhftanding created the Morn-~ ing no ]efs than the Noon day Sun? Ther~,f a hdf Summer, and a half Spring in the Clofr. of the Spring which Gcd rnade.TheEmbrJ'O, IJrBmh not
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