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The genuine use & properties of Faith.

1 Nothing so endangers the Soul as Self fulness Faith therefore
was ordained to nullify that and devalue the soul on another
namely Christ which the more it does the safer it is and having
once done it it never undoes it again. Faith also is an active
grace and diligent & therefore thriving he that hath it shall
have more of it Luke 10.26 (then surely it shall not loose that
it hath!) it is always traveling and never tired 1. because it
travels in the strength of ominpotence which never faints nor
is weary Isah 40.28 and 2. Because it works be love Gal 5.6 shch
is the most kidnly and efficacious principle of service & great
acts. Love is an endless siren it has truely attained the
perpetual motion it enables to render all things and never
faileth 1. Cor 18.7.8 all that God doth for his people is from love
John 3.16 and all that they do for God grows from the same root
they love him because he loved them first 1 John 4.19 Love is
that which renders a work both pleasant to the agent and acceptable
to the object of it there fore working by love shall never weary of
its work nor fail of its ends it is of faith that it might be of
grace and consequently sure Rom 4.16 and as for holiness
(which is a disposition according to God and capacitates for the
blessed vision) a little of it in truth is of infinite value
the very smoak of it shall not be quenched Math 12.20 and
it would be strange if a thing so precious should be liable to
putrefaction but it is not yea it changeth other things but
it itself never changed. It is of a spreading nature compared
therefore to leaven put into dough and hid there till the
whole