Su.. t I Triumph of Faith ~ 77 Pll,)mmet and Line to regulate thefeAEl:i,ons, to do them. I. Becaufe he who bath bought us with a Price, commandeth' us by the Light of Nature. z. And the Light of Faith is to moderate us i-n ~ating, drinking, fleeping according to Chriftian Sobriety, in the Meafure of th~ Ath on. . 3· f'alth teacheth us not to eat, diat we may eat; or for a natural or civa End. Grace heightneth the natural Intention to a fupernatural End, and to do all thde for God and his Service, I 'Cor. x·. 3 I. And what{oever we do (though but civj} Service, as Servants to earthly Ma!te~s in a civil Calling, in trading in Arts) we are· to do .all as to the Lord, not unto Men, Col. iii. z. 3· Then Chrift , a.cting and moving by the Light of Faitn, is the . formal Reafon and Principle in which laltly and fOrma Tt y (ultimate) all our AB:ions are re1olved. z. Look of ho\V mu~.:h worth and Price thy Soul is ; of as great Neceffity is Faith, except thou wouldft look for the Gofpel-vengeance, the Day, or the Ar,es of eternal Vengeance at Chriil's A p- 'pearance; 2 '.lhej): i. 8. !fa. lxi. z..7ob. iii. 18. 36.Chap. viii. 2.4. But if it b.ejo, that Faith is ,-equired in all that I do, tbe :Bufincfs of ~alvation (may 1ome fay) is hm·d and d~(icile ff/ork : rVbere jbatt I haveFaith for ever.J; flirring of nzy Foot ? I anfwer, a.s all our Actions, except where Imagination is Principal of the Act, muft be de- · liberate, and fo the ACtions of a rational Man, 1o muft they be moral :· Now, there is n0 Morality in a Man who i.s a Citizen of the C!Jurcb, but the Morality of Faith; for 'tis a Duty laid upon every one within the vifible Church, that all his Ac. tions moral be watered and luftered with Faith; ' And the Truth is, the \\' ork .of <.mr Salvation beS 3 ip~
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