I 'V"'/ ;~i~h. but a Zfl~x::~ 1t~:~ich Man ~p~~k:t~ with aU his He,a~·r, and with good .will of ~is full . Barns: And us clear, he had netther Fa1th nor :{lope toward Eternity, Luke xii. v. I 9· zo. For ~very Word being (as we fay) ot the length of a Cubit, a Foot and an half, Luke I:. 18. he cafteth forth Words of pulling down, building greater Houfes, and fcraping in all1 his Goods are, tagen 11e'?la ta mou, kai ta agatha mou 111-Y Goods,ait m~v Yiwths and Yio~vels, and all my good Things ; . f(>r he had no other good Things, and there's no 1 Apoftrophe in the Wo!ds, he fpeaketh them with ;1 full found, and we fpeak wirh good Will rhefe Things that we tell to our Soul. Faith hath but half Words' and half AffeCtions touching .the World, half.A:crs, or broJcen Acts in the .Affections, clofing with the Creature, fmeH of a Faith with Child of Eternity, to ruake the Excellency of the Creature, a Matter ofmeer Opinion, to reckon the World's Witchcrafts ofLufi, Gain, Glory, · but uncertain and topjck Arguments to conclude a God-head, and a golden Heaven in the Creaturr, is the height of the Wifdom of Faith : So Paul, Gal, ii-: 2.0! I am crucified witf.; L/;·r'ifl. 0 then {may forne fay) ~aut, you are a dead Man: He 13.ith no. Neverthelefs I live, but I live the Life of Faith, For Chrifl Ji.vet!J in me. All his Mori.. ens toward the C~ature \\'ere half dead, like the. vital Motions of, crucified M:.m half out of the \VorJd, a11d his ABs of Faith were 'lively and vital , fi nd hig~ tuned, like tne highefr Note jn the .?vlufi d~. Song. Faith ,annot break, and violently rep t in iu ~H.1er the two Sides of the AffeBions, with too violent and intenie Ach .ofLove, Joy, F(ar, Deiire: Sorrow, as thdcare terminat€d upon .the
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