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The editor writes in the preface, "This valuable practical treatise, was first published as a pocket volume about the year 1674, soon after the author's final release from his long and dangerous imprisonment. It is evident from the concluding paragraph that he considered his liberty and even his life to be still in a very uncertain state; not from the infirmities of age, for he was then in the...

First, From the impossibility of their flowing from any other thing; they must either flow from faith, or not at all: ‘For whatsoever is not of faith, is sin’ (Rom 14:23). And again, ‘Without faith it is impossible to please him’ (Heb 11:6). Every man by nature, before faith, is an evil and a corrupt tree; and a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit: ‘Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?’ (Matt 7:16, 17). Now a man is made good by faith, and by that bringeth forth the fruits
Volume 2, Page 551
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