y° Of the Manner, the Object ofFaith, AE s xv. i r. But we believe, What ? to he faved, through the Grace of our Lord Yefm, even co they. Here is both the formal and material Obje6t of their Faith ye ask them what it was Peter and theft Chriftians did believe, the Text is plain, viz That they fhould be lived. Ifye ask further, Upon what Grounds did they believe they should be Paved ? 'Tis answered, Through the Grace of our Lord 'efus. Many look to be faved, as the yews and .Papifls through their good Wotks of the Moral Law; many believe they shall be faved, but they cannnot give a Real-on of their Faith, it is an Imagination But he that believes unto -. ighteoufnef, and-by a faving Faith believes his Salvation through the Grace of Chrift jefus ; when the Grace of Chrift Jefus is difcovered to him, he then believes on this Ground, and upon this Ac- count to be faved fo I yohn v. r©, i r. He that believeth not on the Son of God, nor God, loath made him a Liar : becaufe he believeth ,not the Record that God bath given ofhis Son, viz. That God bath given u eternal Life. This is then the Record, that by Faithwe are to be- lieve, not that God bath given eternal Life to fom.e, or that there is eternal Life to be had ;` ut that God bath given to us eternal Life: So that eternal Life to us particularly, is the Ob- je6tof our Faith. So Gal. ii. zoo What is the Objeli of Paul's Faith ? Not Chrift only, as able
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