Sermons on the following subjects .. . ny cafe whatfoever, either Belief or Un-belief be in any degree reafonable or un--reajonablc at all. The Excellency oi Abra- hanC% Of the Nature of Religious Faith. 231 ham^ Faith, confifted in This, that agahifi S f. r he believed ifi Hope-^ Rom. iv. ,18. -^•But the Groimd of this Faith, was ; that ^^^^his own Senfes affured him, of the realityof Gods Promife ; and his * Reafon affu- » >.cvw«i-red him, (fo the Apoftle expreffcs it, Heb,^^xi. 19,) that the thing promifed W2iS pqffiblein itfelf^ though beyond the Bounds of allnatural Hope. Had th
Sermons on the following subjects .. . ny cafe whatfoever, either Belief or Un-belief be in any degree reafonable or un--reajonablc at all. The Excellency oi Abra- hanC% Of the Nature of Religious Faith. 231 ham^ Faith, confifted in This, that agahifi S f. r he believed ifi Hope-^ Rom. iv. ,18. -^•But the Groimd of this Faith, was ; that ^^^^his own Senfes affured him, of the realityof Gods Promife ; and his * Reafon affu- » >.cvw«i-red him, (fo the Apoftle expreffcs it, Heb,^^xi. 19,) that the thing promifed W2iS pqffiblein itfelf^ though beyond the Bounds of allnatural Hope. Had the ObjeB of hisFaith been either contrary to Senfe^ orcontradi5lory in Reafon; the Motives forhis not believing^ had been ilronger thanfor his believing j and his Faith had beena Credulity founded M^on Nothing, Who-ever carefully confiders this, will neverimagine that the words of our Saviour inmy Text, give Any Encouragement eitherto the Impofitions of Popifh Tyranny, orto the Extravagancies of EnthufiaftickFolly. Q 4 SER- C 233 ]. SERMON XI. In what the Kingdom of G O Dconiifts. Rom. xiv. 17. For the Kingdom of GoJy is not meat anddrink^ but righteoufnefs^ and peace^ andjoy in the Holy Ghojl, HE greateft part of Chriili-sx r in the Apojlles days, ha- been educated originally ^^^^^^^in the Jewijh Religion, andbut newly converted from it;tis not to be wondred at, that whilft^ome of them rightly underftood the Na-ture
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