284 The Trial and SEtt: 2 t any G.race, (if Chrift.haye any Thing of his in you) 1s not felf-r:lemal, but Grace-denial, and God-denial, deny the-Work of the fpirit, and denv hirnfelf, 'Tis a iaying ofHumilttv, Cant. i. 5. iam black, and of Faith, but tomety; as the Tents of J(edar, as the Curtains of So"'iimon. And Cant. v.r. Jj!ept, but my heart waked.Tis Faith to hold faft your ilate of Adoption : Lord, I ttm thine. z. When ourfdf maketh a Suit to ielf, and putteth in a Bill to the Flefh. 0 pitty thyfolf. Rejoice, 0 young Man in thy Touth 'Tis jeJf-renouncing to deny this Requeft to the Flefh: An~ !'aith only can give ~n Anfwer to fdfdeclmmg theCrofs.l/e that d~nieth me before men, him. wilt I deny before my Father and his holy Angels (faith Chriit.) And another anfwer Faith giveth, Rom. viii. I 2. I am no Debitor to thee, 0 Flefl:l, I owe thee nothing ; and 'tis Faith;_& ·word of Anfwer, Ecclef. xi. 9· JJut know t/Jou, t!Jat for all thefe thi1:zgs~ God wilt bring th~e unto judgment. 3· Fa1th putteth the Soul m that Condition, that 'fdf rna y be plucked from felf, , without great Violence, as an Apple full of the Tree, and ofHarveft-fap, is with a fmall Motion pluck'd off the fralk, ABs xxi. I,, I am ready ego etoimoos echo ·Thave m.yjetf in readine(s, tiOt only to be bou.11d, but alfo to die at .f'erufotem for the Name of the Lord :lefus. Certainly Faith 1aw here more, in Jefus, of Exc~llency a~d fweetne(~, than there could be of Bmernefs m Bonds and Death, to felf. 4- There's a Denial of the Creature, and,a Bill of Defiance fent to ail the Lovers of the World, whenEphraim is brought to this Act of l3dieving, Hoj. 14. 3· Pot in t!leethefaihertefi . find~
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