The life of faith : in three parts .. . THE Life of Faith. He brews ii. i. Kow faith is the fubjlance of things hoped fqrythe evidence of things notfecn. Hough the wicked arc diftinguifhed in-to Hypocrite* and Vabe!ivirsy yet Hy-pocrites thcmfclvcs arc Unbelievers have no faith which they can ju-itifie, by its prevailing efficacy andworks: and therefore have no faith bywhich they can b* juftified. Becaufe theirdife very is needful to their recovery, andalt our falvation depends on the (incerity of oar faith. 1 havechofen this text, which is a defcription of faith, that theope
The life of faith : in three parts .. . THE Life of Faith. He brews ii. i. Kow faith is the fubjlance of things hoped fqrythe evidence of things notfecn. Hough the wicked arc diftinguifhed in-to Hypocrite* and Vabe!ivirsy yet Hy-pocrites thcmfclvcs arc Unbelievers have no faith which they can ju-itifie, by its prevailing efficacy andworks: and therefore have no faith bywhich they can b* juftified. Becaufe theirdife very is needful to their recovery, andalt our falvation depends on the (incerity of oar faith. 1 havechofen this text, which is a defcription of faith, that theopening of it may help us for the opening of our hearts, andreibving the great qucftion, on which our Lfe de-pends. To be a Chrijrian, and to be t Believer in Chrift, are wordsin Scripture of the fame ligni Meat ion. If you have not faith,you arc not ChrijHans. This faith hath various offices sni B The Life of Faith. obj ;Cts. B/ it weaic ) fanSified and faved. We arcjxjkjKd, not by believing that vps arejujlififd, but by believingthat rvt may bejujbfitd. Not by receiving justification imme-diately, b jc by receiving Chrift for our juftficatim: not by meeraccepting the pardon in it fflf, but by firft receiving him thatptocureth andb<\\ow eth if, on his termt: N )t by meer accept-ing healthy but by receiving the Pkyfician and his remedies, forkealih. Fjith h theprapical Believing in Gcdas promising, andChrijras procuringjuftification and falvatton. Or, the practical brliefand acceptance of life, as procured by Cbrijl, and fromfed byGodintheGcftel. The everlafting fruition of God in Heaven, is the ultimateobject. No man believeth in Chrift as Chriti, that belicvtthnot in him for eternal life. As faith looks at Chrift as the ne-ceffary means, and at the divine benignity as the fountain, andat his veracity as the foundation ov formal cbjed, and it thepromife, as the true
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