A25470:1393
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
Some may make it to imply more to ask in Faith then to ask with Faith, or that it is more to be in Faith, then for Faith to be in us. To be in Love is more then to love, and when it is said, Revel. 1.10. that the Apostle was in the Spirit, it shows that not only he had the Spirit, and was filled with it, but there were great overflowings, and a superabundance of the Spirit. This the Apostle seems to call, James 5.15. the Prayer of Faith, as if their Faith rather prayed then they, as St. Paul speaks, It is not I, but the Grace of God in me, when Faith rather may be said to act us then we to act Faith.
Some may make it to imply more to ask in Faith then to ask with Faith, or that it is more to be in Faith, then for Faith to be in us. To be in Love is more then to love, and when it is said, Revel. 1.10. that the Apostle was in the Spirit, it showes that not only he had the Spirit, and was filled with it, but there were great overflowings, and a superabundance of the Spirit. This the Apostle seems to call, James 5.15. the Prayer of Faith, as if their Faith rather prayed then they, as St. Paul speaks, It is not I, but the Grace of God in me, when Faith rather may be said to act us then we to act Faith.
But I suppose those high degrees of Faith cannot be meant here, because it is said, that they who have not this Faith, must not think to receive any thing, not the least; if so then the highest degrees of Faith should be required for the obtaining the lowest degrees of Mercy; but Scripture promises are made to the Truth, and not to the degrees of Grace. To Faith that is but as a grain of Mustard-seed to remove Mountains, and to Love that is but a spark to be victorious, Matth. 12.20. but I shall rather endeavour to show you how Faith is taken here, then how 'tis taken in other places, therefore, To ask in Faith, may he here spoken in reference to the Person that prays, viz. he that prays must be in the Faith a faithful or Righteous Person. The Scripture is full to this purpose, as