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Fourthly,¹ Faith is a quickening grace, it sets all other graces on work, it puts life and activity into them all; I live by the Faith of the Son of God, says Saint Paul; and especially it sets love on work, which is a grace exceedingly powerful. Faith works by love. If a mans faith be up, all his graces will be so too; and if that be down, all other graces are weak and down with it.² Gulielmus Parisiensis reports of a Crystal, that it hath such a virtue, as when the virtues of other precious stones are extinct, it will revive them again: Faith is such a Crystal to revive the virtue of all graces. When Davids heart was so down, that he chides himself so much, Psal. 43. 5. Why art thou cast down oh my soul? he labours to recover himself by his Faith; still trust in God; he is the health of my countenance, and my God. Faith brings life, and maintains life in the soul: for it hath the most immediate union with Christ, and therefore the ⟨p. 180⟩liveliness and activity of our graces depends much upon it: now where the graces of Gods Spirit are lively and active, the allurements and threats of the World cannot much prevail.

Fourthly,¹ Faith is a quickning grace, it sets all other graces on worke, it puts life and activitie into them all; I live by the Faith of the Sonne of God, sayes Saint Paul; and especially it sets love on worke, which is a grace exceedingly powerfull. Faith workes by love. If a mans faith be up, all his graces will be so too; and if that be downe, all other graces are weake and downe with it.² Gulielmus Parisiensis reports of a Chrystall, that it hath such a vertue, as when the vertues of other pretious stones are extinct, it will revive them againe: Faith is such a Chrystall to revive the vertue of all graces. When Davids heart was so downe, that he chides himselfe so much, Psal. 43. 5