Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

HAVing treated of Justification, Adoption and Sanctification, which are Fruits of Faith, and are more or less in all Believers; I now proceed to some other, which are The Crowns and Statures of Faith, and to be found not in all Believers, at least not at first; but in such as have made a good progress in Grace. Faith, have made a good progress in Grace. Faith, having obtained the Holy Spirit with all its Graces, doth now go on like The Baptized Eunuch, rejoicing in the ways of God, glorying in Free Grace, triumphing in Jesus Christ, warring against Corruptions, actuating Holy Graces, bowing down under the Commands of Heaven, sucking the Sweet-Breasts of the Promises, and waiting for the Heavenly Dews and Distillations of the Spirit; and in this holy Progress gathers up many ⟨p. 326⟩choice Experiments more worth than a World. All learned Men are for Experiments, and every one would cry, [Greek or Hebrew], I have found it: the Sages of the Law are for tried Cases, which have been sub judice; the Physician sets a probatum est on approved Medicines; the Anatomists hunts after the arcana of Nature by Dissection of Bodies, and the Chemist by Dissolution thereof. Experience is procreatrix Artium, the very Parent of Arts, whose universal Precepts are collected by an induction of particulars; but there are no Experiments like those of Faith. Dr. Dee's Spirits made as if they would reveal great Mysteries to him, such as they called the Cabala of Nature, the Numbers of the World, the linea Spiritus Sancti, the Mirabilia Dei, and the Nova terra bringing forth without Tillage, but all these were but Dreams and Impostures; and so I suppose are many things in Chemistry, like Helmont's Alkahest, wonderful, if true: But the Experiments of Faith are great Realities, and withal Divine, as much above those in the Sphere of Nature as Souls are above Bodies, and Heaven is above Earth. God in the Prophet calls on his People to bring in the Tithes for his House, and so by their Obedience to prove him, If he would not open the windows of Heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there should not be room enough to receive it, Mal. 3.10. When Faith goes on in a Tract of Obedience proving of God, Heaven opens in wonderful Experiences of him, the Manna ⟨p. 327⟩of holy Truth is then tasted, the Honey-combs of Free-Grace drop upon the Heart, Promises are realized & exemplified in Providences;