Chap.5.Sect.s Book IV. 495 6fGodfoall hflve life CVf1"/ttfiing, ~mil], verilJ I faJ ur;to )OH, he J h 6 thAt be[(fveth on m? h4th everl4fting iife. 0 remember this in ° · · 47 ' the firfi place, faith muft go unto Chrift, and yet I meane not to <;hrift , as <lhfrraetly an~ nakedly conlidered , b:ut to Chrift as 1=0mpaff>d wi~h ~til his promifes, priviledges, b~pefits. ' 2. Fait!} mQI.l: go to Chrift, as God in the fle!h. Some make thisthe diffm!nce Qf faiths aCting betwixt beleevers .of che New and Old Tel.l:ament; under rhe Old Tdl:arnent,, when Chrift, was but in the promife, and noc as then come in the flefh, their faith ha4 a more ufual recourfe unco God himfelfe, as forChrift (Go~-man, man-God) they had not fo dift net, but only aconfufed knowledge of him, and therefore we reade not fo freq]:Iently · and u(ually oftheir recourfe unto him, but only unto God. 0 o!fr God ~i/t thou not judge thm;? we k..now not what to do, but our 7. Cb'ron.-:o.u. eyet fire HPOI? (hee ---~ and heare me.O {~td<lh, (lnd ye inh~tbitants vcr. :o. of {erf4[fllem, be/ef'I/C in the Lory/y our God, fo /hall ye be e(l,t6l~fbed._,_...,.. and, the L9rd heard this, and was wrath -becaufe they Pial ·7l!, n,~:.' beleevednot in God, and trufted not in his[11lv41ion ; But now under. the NewTetlament, becaufe C 'hrill as Mediatour, who was ·pro~ mifed, is cqme, 01,1r faith more ufually and immediately addreffeth it felf~ unto Chrift as God ia the flelh. God dwelling . in our nature is made more familiar to our faith, than the I}Crfon Qf theFather, who is meerly God : God in the fle!h is more dilhnctly fee forth in the New Teframent, and fo he is more 4iftin<'l:ly to be apprehended by the faith of all beleevers : yet~ beleeve in God (fayes Chrift to hi~ d&iples, whofe faith and·opt• nion of the Melfia.h was till Chnfts returrection of the fame elevation wtth chat of the Old Tell:ament- beleevers) ye beleevt in Job. I<f, x; God, but he rells not there, be!eevealfo in me, make me the object: · ofyour trult and falvation, aswell as the Father, belcevc alfo in me; Mr only fo, bat belecve in the firll place onme; one fweerly obferves, that when faith and repentance came more narrowly to be d,ftinguifhed by their more immediate objects, it is hiJ df)wn thJs, repentance roward; God, andfaith towards our AC!.:o.u, . Lard Je( AA~ Chrift; not but that God and Chrift are object:s of both bJ that Ch~ : ft 1s more immediately the objt;Cl: of faith, and God is more immcdiac~ly the ohjed: ofrepentance, fo thn t we beleeve 111 God through beleevingin Chrift firft, and we turne [() ,
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