A treatise of faith : wherein methodically is handled, the nature of true, saving, justifying faith, in opposition unto counterfeit .. . : accordingto that which the Pfalmift fpeaketh, that a good vnder- ,fianding haue they that doe there-after, and thepraife there-of will endure for euer. If any defire to know, how withall their other knowledges they might come to know thisla(t,and of all the reft, the beft, and moft ncedefull pointofknowledge,namely,fo to know Chrift,as therewithallto know allo,that all that are in Chrift, and looke to beefauedbyhim, of neceffitie muftbec new creatur
A treatise of faith : wherein methodically is handled, the nature of true, saving, justifying faith, in opposition unto counterfeit .. . : accordingto that which the Pfalmift fpeaketh, that a good vnder- ,fianding haue they that doe there-after, and thepraife there-of will endure for euer. If any defire to know, how withall their other knowledges they might come to know thisla(t,and of all the reft, the beft, and moft ncedefull pointofknowledge,namely,fo to know Chrift,as therewithallto know allo,that all that are in Chrift, and looke to beefauedbyhim, of neceffitie muftbec new creatures, andpurge themfelues as he is pure, let them with prayer andholy meditation,learnc in humility the way of liuing wel:in learning it,lct them obey it; and in obeying,they fhallftill learnc it bctter,as our Sauiour himfelfc hath promifedto thcm,that will doe the will of his Father. And fo muchi let be faid concerning this point of the difference of the know-1 John a. —I 124 Mans aftiue obedience. C h a p . 12 A knowledges that may be difccrned, and found to bee a- mong men. Diuersappre-benftonofCbri^. Chap. XII. Theftcond differet)cc,which is in their layinghold of Chri/ifor faluation. knowledge you haue fiewed, there muftbe alfo a laying holdofQhrift^ with that God will befauonrable to vs in andthrough him: and for as much as in hypo-crites, thefe alfo may feeme to be found aswell as the knowledge ofChrift; I pray youJhew what difference may be put betweene the apprehenfion ofChrist for faluation by a true beleeuer, and the perfwaft-on he hath of obtaining faluation by him,and that which canbee found in one that is not currant nor found in his be-leeuing, *A. The one layeth hold of Chrift in imagination andconceit onely; and therefore is neuer the better : theo-ther in truth and certaintie, andfo vndoubtedly becom-meth faued thereby. The apprehenfion of (fhrift by an hypocrite in hisowne imagination, is but as the holding
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