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In a word, that we may a little perpend the effects, as we have perceived the causes; all spiritual sickness is either in faith or conversation.

In a word, that we may a little perpend the effects, as wee haue perceiued the causes; al spirituall sicknes is either in faith or conuersation.

1. In Faith. This is a general & dangerous sickness. General, AEgrotat sides jam proxima morti. Faith is so sick, that it is ready to die. These are those last and Apostate times, wherein faith is become so little, that the scarcity gives expectation of the general doom. We swear away our faith at every trifle, and then no marvel (being so prodigal of such oaths,) if our stock of faith be sworn and worn out. Dangerous, we affie the world, which we have vowed to defy; and loosing that confidence we should live by, (for the^l Just lives by faith) How can it be, but the Soul must become Sick? Whiles the ^mshield of faith is lost, we lie naked to the fiery darts of Satan: and many wounds will let out the life blood. The Sun in the heaven passeth through the 12. Signs of the Zodiac. Christ is our Sun, the 12. Articles of our Creed, the 12. Signs,ⁿ Faith is our Zodiac; do you wonder why in this day of the Gospel, the Sun beams of grace lived in so few hearts? They have lost their Zodiac. Their faith is form, and the clouds of infidelity have eclipsed those Signs. They believe not beyond the extension of sense, they have a sensual, a senseless faith. It is ⟨p. 78⟩the forest shipwreck, which the vast sea of this world and the Pirates of sin can put men to, the sinking of their faith; It was Pauls happy triumph that he had ^o