The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

6. How wisely is it thus contrived, that Glory at last should be better relished, and that man who hath the Joy should give God the Glory; and be bound to this by a double obligation.

6. How wisely is it thus contrived, that Glory at last should be better rellished, and that man who hath the Joy should give God the Glory; and be bound to this by a double obligation.

7. How aptly is this remedying design, and all the work of mans Redemption, and all the Precepts of the Gospel, built upon, or planted into the Law of natural perfection: Faith being but the means to recover Love; and Grace being to Nature, but as Medicine is to the Body; and being to Glory, as Medicine is to Health: So that as a man that was never taught to speak, or to go, or to do any work, or to know any science, or trade, or business, which must be known acquisitively, is a miserable man, as wanting all that which should help him to use his natural powers to their proper ends; so it is much more with him that hath Nature without Grace, which must heal it, and use it to its proper ends.

8. So that it appeareth, that as the Love of Perfection is fitly called the Law of Nature, because it is agreeable to man in his Natural state of Innocency; so the Law of Grace may be now called, the Law of depraved Nature, because it is as suitable to lapsed man. And when our pravity is undeniable, how credible should it be, that we have such a Law?