The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . gets feruice from lo when men can make their recreationsto feme their turnes for better purpofes, whena man not onely ouercomes them, gets thevictory of them, but makes them feruiceable,fo a man make adiiantasre of the World. Againe, when thou wouldeft hauc thy fan-dification incrcaled, incrcafe thy faith. Themore thou beleeucft, the more the Spirit ofChrift is conueyed into thy heart. The ftronger thy ****:• 1\6 Of effeBuall Faith. thy faith is, the more the winde of grace, the fappefhall flow
The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . gets feruice from lo when men can make their recreationsto feme their turnes for better purpofes, whena man not onely ouercomes them, gets thevictory of them, but makes them feruiceable,fo a man make adiiantasre of the World. Againe, when thou wouldeft hauc thy fan-dification incrcaled, incrcafe thy faith. Themore thou beleeucft, the more the Spirit ofChrift is conueyed into thy heart. The ftronger thy ****:• 1\6 Of effeBuall Faith. thy faith is, the more the winde of grace, the fappefhall flow from Christ iato thy heart. As old Adams corruption, it is with the grace of C h r i s t, when thou commeftneere,thou art ingraft into the fimilitude of his death; that is, there comes a gift from him, he fends his Spirit into thy heart, that doth make thee ioy in him, that cauleth thee to dye to fin, and to line to righteotiQiefle. This I thought to haue opened: But fo much fhal feme for this time, and for this Text. FIP^IS. «H«5s?W <?f&6& iW^SKfir • *&v O F LOVE. THE FIRST Sermon. Gallat. 5. in Jefm Qm(l, neither circumcijion avai-led any thing, nor uncircumcifion^ut Faithwhich Tborketh by Loye. N the fourth verfc of thischapter the Apoftleaffirmes,that there is no juftificationby the law • for, faith hec,yfyoiibejutfifiedly the Jaw, youare fallen from grace : that is,% you cannot be partakers ofthat juftification which is by grace: Becaufe forto have it by the law, and to have it by grace ate I1 A a oppofite. \ «*? o O V E. oppofite. And he gives a reafon for it, becaufe,faith he, Through the Sprit we watte for the hope ofthat righteoufnes which is by faith, and not by the he hadexpreffed himfelfc fo farre, whichis the righteoufneffe received by faith,that is,thatrighteoufnefte which is. freely given by God, of-fered to us,wrought by Chrift,but taken by faithon our parts: Thus faith he, you muft be to confirme this, he gives a reafon
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