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is fbed abroad in our Hearts by the Holy Ghoft which is given to us. Rom. v. 5. Wherefore alfo, he fays in another Place, the Fruit of the Spirit is Love. Gal. v. 22. So St. John tells us--Love is of God. 1 John iv. 7. For the fame Reafon the fore-cited Apoftle calls the Holy Ghoft, the Spirit of Love. And St. John fays again-God is Love. That is, he is effentially fo in himself, and, communicatively fo, to us, in Operation and Effect. And,

This has brought me about to a full Refolution of the Queftion, which I did, in this Part chiefly fet out upon; even demonftrating wherein Faith, is the Part of Man, and wherein it is the Gift of God; wherein the faid Father of the Demoniac Child believed, and wherein he nevertheless still wanted help to his unbelief. And,

By a like Diftinction we may account for Repentance, in what Refpects it is the Act of Man, and, in what, it is the Gift of God. For, in Fear and Trembling at the Word of God, as above, it is the Part of Man; but, for Converting the Heart to God, in drawing it with the Cords of his Love, by his Holy Spirit, to himself; it is the Gift of God.

This has been an Excurfion, and a longer one than I at firft defign'd: But, the Occafion led me to it: And, as the Subject is comprehenfive and important, the Reader, if

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he finds any useful Hints in it, will excufe the Delay given him by it, and improve what is here but fummarily treated of, by his own further Searches and Meditations, at his better Leifure.

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HE Nullity of REPENTANCE without FAITH in the REDEMPTION by JESUS CHRIST, proved from HOLY SCRIPTURE.

In three SERMON S.

By BENJAMIN HOLLOWAY, L. L. B.

Sorrow according to God worketh Repentance to Salvation not to be Repented of, but the Sorrow of the World worketh Death.

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