Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

. I '-76 TheTrial and SER. 2.1 lieart-ravifhing Attribute in God, and rnoft fuitable to our 4nful Condition. 3· T.he high and deep Love of-God, and Love which dwelleth in and with the noble and excellent Blood that fa- " tisfieth infinite J ufttce ; there is no fuch G Iory by any AB: of Obedience teridred to God by Adam in his innocent Condition, or by Angels, which never .fin~ed. 3· There is as great a Neceffity of Faith, as of Life; for the juftified Man muft live hy Faith: There's nQ Grace fo Catholick., it being of Neceffity interwoven in all our Ac1ions, as they fall under moral Conftderation ; not only in' fupernatural Actions, but alfo in ail our natural and civil AC1ions, in fo far as they rnuft be fpiritualized,in Relation to God's Honour, 1 Cor. x. 3 I. So as 7ofoua, Ylaruch, Sam{on, :JJa·vid, <lid fight Battles, kill Men, fuhdue Kingdoms by :Faith, Heb. xi. ; 2, ; ;. So muft the Souldier now fipht by that fame Faith, and fo are the Saints, to &Jar, drink, fleep, journey, buy, fell by Faith : We are not to put on Faith as a Cloke, or an upper Garment, when we go to the Street~, Fields, or Churcht and then lay it aft de in the Houfe, at Table, or in Bed; yea, the renewed Man is not to eat and fieep, becaufe the Light of Reafon and -the Law of Nature teacheth him fo to do, or the ConveniPnce of a J,:aJling ; for then an rhofe ACtions fhall be reiolved in the fame Principles, and formal Reafon of moral Performance of tQem in the Believer, as in the carnal Man; in whom a natural ')pit·it is Stirfman ; and then we do but in theie AB:ions, walk in the I ~rz;ht of our ownFire, and the Sparks that we ourfel:·es have kitJdled, a n i .fhall not fee to go to bed, bttt h do'7.vr. £nfor- fow; Ifa. I. :u. but':i we ~re to fetw Faith as the Plum-

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