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Faith and Repentance to be daily renewed and encreased. [ 1608]

AS the natural life of Man doth consist upon that which by the Physitians is called Humor radicalis and Calor naturalis, Natural heat and radicall moysture; for indeed all life is sustained by motion, and motion is between contrarieties:* 1.1 So in the life spiritual, there must be of necessity two contrary qua∣lities; Repentance, continually to put off our own Unrighteousnesse, and Faith to put on Christ's, the one to work upon the other, so to preserve life by motion; Not to sit down with those Anabaptistical, and fanatick spirits that limit a cer∣tain time for sorrow and Repentance;* 1.2 for the best of us all are but leaking Vessels, and we must ply the Pump daily for fear of drowning, as long as there is ex∣cesse of evill and defect of good within us, Repentance must be renewed, and Faith increased daily, Death onely being the end and complement of our Re∣pentance and Mortification, even as our R••surrection shall be the period and ul∣timate of our Faith and Vivificati••n.

Notes

• * 1.1

  J. Case Serm. of Repent. 1616.
• * 1.2

  Ne••o potest esse ••am prudens et circumspe∣ctu••, ut ali∣quando non laba••ur, erg•• re••erat pedem &c. Lactant.