'SiR· 1i ' Triumph of Faith. . 30J the Helm, or that Grace fie-epeth, and Wtll waketh the contrary is an evident Truth: Yet give me' Leave to fay, There's O~ds between blowing of the Wind, and making ready the Sails: Tlw•.1gh Seamen cannot make Wind, nor is it their Fault to want Wind, yet can they prepart!' the Sails, and hoife them up to welcome the vV ind; we cannot create the Breathin~s uf the Spirit, yet are we to m ifs thefe Breathings ; and this is a fitting of t,he Sails; and we are to join with , the Spirit's Breathings. Chrift bind~ th up the 'Ninds in his Garment, fo as ifone look of: Faith, or half a fpiritual Groan, fhonld ranfom me from Hell, I have itnot in Stock ; the.refore hath God ordered fuch a · Difpenfation, that in all Stirrings of Grace, the firft Spring, Prif!cipium motus, the Fountain-rife of catting .7efus Lord, !hall be up in Heaven at the right Hand of the :Father, and the far End ofany gracious Thought, is as far above ' me as the Heart of Chrift, who is in the Heaven of Heavens, is above the Earth, though you think nothing of i~; and better ·chrift be my Steward, and that the Gofpel be at · the End of all Acts of Grace, as that Chrift be Freewill's Debtor: More Reafons Chrift be Creditor than Debtor to his redeemed Ones .2.. I know the Child of God may be fo far forth Lazie, as that 'tis his Fault that the Wind bloweth not; if we fpeak of a moral Caufe. ~· 'Tis his Part to join with the working of affifiing Grace, Col. i. 29. Whereunto I al(o tabour, agoni4fomenos flriving according to his •working, '"..vhicb wo1·keth in me tnff!;htity. The Lord bath, by /ree Promife, laid holy Bands o~ himfelf, to give predeterminating Grace .to h!s own Children to pe.rfever'e to the End. and rp prcvent·Apoftacy and hainou~ Sins m~on-
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