A55306:382

Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Name: Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth
Author: Edward Polhill

Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth by Edward Polhill ...

Edward Polhill 1622–1694?London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1675

[9], 461 [i.e. 477], [11] p. · 130k words · Wing P2755 · ESTC R9438

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PRECIOUS FAITH. › Chapter 10

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.

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What an All is He, and an Heaven his Love? What tastes are there of his Goodness and surrenders to his Will and Glory? Our Love goes after him, as his is by Faith let in upon the Heart.

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Moreover, Faith excites the Love of him by every act which it sets about; in its recumbencies it enamours the Heart, that he should give us leave to lean on his Grace, and in so doing bear up our weakness with Promises, and sweetly answer us in Pardons and suitable Graces; in its Obedience it is very ravishing, that he should chalk out such pure ways for us, and take us by the hand and teach us to go, and at last crown our faltering Obedience with Eternal Life. Ordinances, which to Unbelief are but dry things, are to Faith the lovely Chariots of the Spirit; Creatures, which are Idols to carnal sense, are to Faith fair mirrors of the infinite Goodness and Beauty in the Creator. Which way soever Faith turns it self, it meets with something or other inflammative of our Love towards him, who is every-where, and all in all.

Moreover, Faith excites the Love of him by every act which it sets about; in its recumbencies it enamours the Heart, that he should give us leave to lean on his Grace, and in so doing bear up our weakness with Promises, and sweetly answer us in Pardons and suitable Graces; in its Obedience it is very ravishing, that he should chalk out such pure ways for us, and take us by the hand and teach us to go, and at last crown our faultring Obedience with Eternal Life. Ordinances, which to Unbelief are but dry things, are to Faith the lovely Chariots of the Spirit; Creatures, which are Idols to carnal sense, are to Faith fair mirrors of the infinite Goodness and Beauty in the Creator. Which way soever Faith turns it self, it meets with something or other inflammative of our Love towards him, who is every-where, and all in all.

:381p. 299–300

As touching our Love to Christ, it is actuated in the same manner. A mere notion of Christ raises up some Love towards him; as we see in those Temporaries, who receive the word with joy,

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