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nature prospered grace; but do believe that faith, and faith nniy„ nhieli God giveth to ihem who a:(lc, and with^ boldeth from the easy and the slothful, is the soil wbicii forcelii u|\ and KW4?lleth out inLo Inrgi'! lorni ftod stately |;rowih, the seed of the spiritual mnxu And such a faith did exist id the Papal church at tiic Itefornialion, a» wa$ crer passisg intocreda* Uty and played tJpoD by auperfttitioD; but withal! when it fuiind the truth, 8urh a fstitb as fed upon' it bri&vt:ly ; which cuntiuucd uutil tb*; Council Treat, ID the iron moulds ot* whose canons, Bop^j ported by tbe sc^hUtical and scbolottic vrii of the Bcllarmmca and Campiorut. who arosi agaiust the K^rformers* to maintain the coDtrar>' their theses through thick and thin; this liberty of faith was wholly, or almost wholly strarij^cdj and the pcopio of God who had hitherto been ftble^ to dwell with aooie tolention within the city,, were forced to come out of it by a sotcmn act protestatiou against the unnatural, unchristtai nioost ttn(i*Chh>tiau force and stratagctu whii was uRed at^^nst them- Thus have wo sccu the form and the pre&atire of two of the great anta^^onist spirits tinder which it hath picased the Lord tu subject his church; namely, the spirit out of the mouth of tlie dragon, aiid Ibespirilout oftbe mouth of th« falsi- prophet. They were both most necessary to the mauifesta- tion oi bill wisdom and power in the church* else would they never have been permitted to arise for ita oppression and trouble : and it is of the cfiseuce of tlie church that she should be so tormented, as it was of llie iri^ence of the Incarnation that it should be in passive and suffering flesh: the former boiDg to shew forth God s lure and lou£:-6uffcriDg, and various wisdom in the Spirit, as the latter was to shew his grace and truth and boUuess in the Soa. Tlic preseuce of sin Is of the very lir] TIIK THRe^ L'KCLk'AN spritt7i. 873 <fft$nce of tlic dispon^ntioQ of grace : side bv side with grace it must stand; hand lo hand it' must put forth its luighl. ind step by step advance tlic mystery of its delusion. An ihe pre«»:ture of the atmosphere is aecexsary to tlic life and activity of mau. from wliosc body the blood ooseth forth wti«n il wanieth this proper balance, a»d his la* bouring breast cannot iuhalc enough of the thinner and lesa nutrieious air, so is the pressure of ini- quity necessary to the lifo and activity of the church, whose sinewy strength relaxelh, whose resisting faith is dissipated when the nntagonist force is t