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Rh to pray, to ſuffer, or the like: by this alſo a Man may learn what are the great promiſes & conſolations of the Goſpel,to his own comfort. Further, by this a Man may learn to refute falſe opinions, to vindicate the truth, and alſo to inſtruct the ignorant.

Faith. All this is true, and glad am I to hear theſe things from you.

Talk.' Alas! the want of this is the cauſe that ſo few underſtand the need of faith, and the neceſſity of a work of Grace in their Soul, in order to eternal life: but ignorantly live in the works of the Law, by which a man can by no means obtain the Kingdom of Heaven.

Faith. But by your leave, Heavenly knowledge of theſe, is the gift of God; no man attaineth to them by humane induſtry, or only by the talk of them.

Talk. All this I know very well, for a man can receive nothing except it be given him from Heaven; all is pf Grace, not of works: I could give you an hundred Scriptures for the confirmation of this.

Faith. Well then, ſaid Faithful, what is that one thing, that we ſhall at his time found our diſcourfe upon? Rh