SER: ~ i Triumph of Faith: 2;;· Pitch of Obftinacy, fpitting o-qt Blood, and M urders on the Face of that Lord 7efiJs whom he - perfecuted; and in this Regard, Converfion is no . le[., pure Grace, every Way free to Saul humbled, ancl_ fo havin.g on_ly half 'a .thirft and deftre ?f Chttft, than tf he were yet m the Feaver of h1s higheft Blarfphemy, thirfting after the Blood of the Saints. 4· Yet are the Saints thus prepared and humbled, but not converted materially,PhJ:fically, or as it were -paffively nearer Chriil:, al'ld in Relation to . God's eternal ~leClio~ of Grace, w~o niakeijt thts a Step . rehtttv.e, t,o h~s ete~nal tove, the~ are under the Reach of Chn~'s Love, and at the Elbow of the right Arm of the Father, who draweth Souls to the Son, .7oh.. vi. 44· And in the Goipel-bo~n~s and F.ie~d&, or Lifts of F~ee-grac<f, as the He1ght and Rage of a Feaver; is near a Cool and a Return to Health, and yet moft coqtrary to Health, and the,utrnoft flowing of the Sea, when 'tis at the remotdt Score of the Coaft, is~ Difpofition t? an ebbing, though moll: contrary to a low Ebb 1; io are the humbled Souls, who have fome lame and maimed eftirnative Power of :Light, to put half a Price on Chrift, and finds apprehended fin, the Mouth, Throat, and out E ntry of Hell, in tl;!at Cafe, moft coptrary to Chrift. A Fifh within that Circle of tbe \Vater that the 'J:iJ'et cafi:eth, is no lefs living in its own Element of Water, than if it were in'the Bofom of the Ocean, fome hundred Miles diftant ftom Fi fher or Net; yet is it in a neare r Di1pofttion to be catched. FoR G rounds of Faith to lead us on to belir:vjng : C<Jnfider, t . r:wo Words. Col. i. 2. 7. fpoS . · ken
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