Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant…Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant…

Fourthly, besides all this; First the stirring up of the graces, and the acting of the habits; Secondly, making thy peace and reconciliation with God, and removing of any particular offence, that is betwixt God and thee; Thirdly, this scouring off the rust, this removing the distance between God and thee, the softening of that hardness which thy heart hath contracted; this recovering the strength that thou hast wasted; There is besides all these a fourth thing required, which is, that there be an Intention, a particular increase of thy will, in taking Christ, of thy desire to Christ, and of every grace that knits thee and Christ together; For there are certain cementing graces, certain gluing graces, that join Christ and thy soul together, as Faith and Love; these are the two main graces; there are a great train of graces that follow them, but these are the chief, and these I say must be intended, For what is the end of the Sacrament? Is it not to knit the knot stronger between Christ and us, to make the union more full and perfect? is it not to increase our willingness to take and receive Christ? for you ⟨p. 314⟩know all the acts of the soul may be intended. Put the case there be a resolved act in the heart and soul of any man, whereby he saith thus with himself: I am resolved to take Christ, and to serve and love him for the time of my life, yet this resolution of his, though it be perfect and sincere, may receive intention; when a man is willing to do any thing truly, there may be degrees added to that will; when there is light in a room (when thou bringest in more candles) that light may be increased: so it may in this, so may your faith and love; (by faith I mean nothing but the resolution of the heart to take Christ; I mean not the believing part, but the taking part, the act of the will taking Christ, or receiving him, which is nothing else but the choice of the will that resolves to take him.) I do but touch this by the way, because it is a point I have handled already at large; the thing I aim at is this; I say the gluing graces are these two; Faith and love, whereby you thus take Christ for your Lord and Saviour; Faith is like the part of the compass that goeth about and doth the work; and love is that cementing grace whereby we are more knit unto the Lord; they have both their office and their place;

Fourthly, besides all this; First the stirring up of the graces, and the acting of the habits; Secondly, making thy peace and reconciliation with God, and remooving of any particular offence, that is betwixt God and thee; Thirdly, this scouring off the rust, this remooving the distance betweene God and thee, the softning of that hardnesse which thy heart hath contracted; this recovering the strength that thou hast wasted; There is besides all these a fourth thing required, which is, that there be an Intention, a particular increase of thy will, in taking Christ, of thy desire to Christ, and of every grace that knits thee and Christ together; For there are certaine cementing graces, certaine glewing graces, that joyne Christ and thy soule together, as Faith and Love; these are the two maine graces; there are a great traine of graces that follow them, but these are the chiefe, and these I say must bee intended, For what is the end of the Sacrament? Is it not to knit the knot stronger betweene Christ and us, to make the union more full and perfect? is it not to increase our willingnesse to take and receive Christ? for you