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 72 Aline Bi'adjlrect''s Works.

LXXV.

TT is admirable to conlider the power of faith, by ■^ which all things are (almoft) pofQble to be done: it can remoue mountaines (if need were) it hath ftayd the courfe of the fun, raifed the dead, caft out divels, reverfed the order of nature, quenched the violence of the fire, made the water become firme footing for Peter to walk on; nay more then all thefe, it hath ouercome the Omnipotent himfelf, as when Mofes in- tercedes for the people, God fath to him, let me alone that I may deftroy them, as if Mofes had been able, by the hand of faith, to hold the everlafting armes of the mighty God of Jacob ; yea, Jacob him- felf, when he wreftled with God face to face in Pen- iel: let me go! fath that Angell. I will not let thee go, replys Jacob, till thou blelTe me! faith is not only thus potent, but it is fo neceflary that without faith there is no falvation, therfore, with all our feek- ings and gettings, let vs aboue all feek to obtain this pearle of prife.

LXXVI.

O OME chrifhians do by their lufts and Corruptions as ^^ the Ifralits did by the Canaanites, not deftroy them, but put them vnder tribute, for that they could do (as they thought) with leffe hazard, and more profit; but what was the Ilfue ? they became a fnare vnto them, prickes in their e3'es, and thornes in their lides, and at

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