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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. If God be our Reward, he hath given us an Hand to lay hold on him: this hand is Faith, Mark. 9.24. Lord, I believe; a Weak Faith justifiesr: As a weak hand can tie the Knot in Marriage; a weak Faith can lay hold on a strong Christ; the nature of Faith is assent joined with affiances. Faith doth [Greek or Hebrew], make God ours: other Graces make us like Christ, Faith makes us One with him; and this Faith is known by it's Virtue. No precious Stone, saith (Cardan) but hath some virtue latent in it. Precious Faith hath Virtue in it: it quickens and ennobles, it puts worth into our Servicest; it puts a difference between the Abba Father of a Saint, and the Ave Mary of a Papist.
2. If God be our Reward, he hath given us an Hand to lay hold on him: this hand is Faith, Mark. 9.24. Lord, I believe; a Weak Faith justifiesr: As a weak hand can tye the Knot in Marriage; a weak Faith can lay hold on a strong Christ; the nature of Faith is assent joyned with affiances. Faith doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, make God ours: other Graces make us like Christ, Faith makes us One with him; and this Faith is known by it's Vertue. No precious Stone, saith (Cardan) but hath some vertue latent in it. Precious Faith hath Vertue in it: it quickens and enobles, it puts worth into our Servicest; it puts a difference between the Abba Father of a Saint, and the Ave Mary of a Papist.
- rCredo Domine languida fide tamen credo. Cruciger.