4111111111=1111111 284 AQ"arawce idpejsi&le. Set gMar.i6.iknow that the impenitent unbelieving perfon chat di.;th without grace, 6. Ran.1.4,5. and aninterefi in Chrili, (hall certainly ( g) be damned, becaufe God hath fail it, as if I Caw hi:n in his mifer and I know chat the Peni= l-eb.: t.14. y ; tent, believing, felf- denying, and fin-mortifying-Chrifiian, fhrll be I) Mat.S. s. (h) Caved becaufeGod hash faid it, as certainly as if I faw hits at-Wally Rom.s. 3. polfeffed of it already. Alts 1 C43. When faith bath this divine tefiimony to lean tipo », it arifech in fotne by degrees to a full aflúrance. There are efpecially four words in theScripture, that fer forth faith in its different degrees. N lingua ra- t. As it is laid ro be Tiroçt,ó(S, Heb. î 1.I . The fteyflalece, fubfilence, cya,vacr turn eatflence of things: Looking upon things future, as certainas if they pathacbfegnente wereprefent ; among the Hebrews there is ufual, a mutation of tenfes, dz pjrfutmn turning the future into the præter-tente. * Faith is the believers camvertit, nam Pathach, makit,gthings to come as certain to him, as if he did already prefens Ayopii- enjoy them ; and putrech a dateupon the joys, of the life to corne,be- um,Hebyai nut- fore he is poifed of them. Noahs faith afiìired him of the {loud, as cer- lurn habent. tainly as if it had then been,when it was firl+ (i) foretold ; it is a demors- i Heb.0 .7. //ration of things not Peen ; faith teeth things that cannot be fees. That way of argumentation whereby errour is confuted, by APiflotle is cal- fMly®° led ihey?...5,* the word here ufed. But here for a certain convidiion ari- ñs o- fang from divine authority, (Hewing us fuck things which fenfe cannot ou,s.4yifl. de perceive, and reafon cannot comprehend. When faith thus reprfents yeprehenfì.l.T chefe glorious things to come thus unto the believing foul, then there cap5. is rm77 -01ngis, a mood erfwafion of the heart or a holy confidence and And fo tiled by from this erfwai.on there arileth 77agilgi'a y the Apoftle. P an humble boldnefs, or li- Tim:3.16. berry, and freedom of fpeech ro God in prayer, which de 'ore all belie- The Scri1nte vers have ; there wordsyou have together, inEph. 2.1 2. he whom we is profits le have boldnejß, arld accefs with cosafidence, by the faith of him. And from Toconv;néë " chefe refill te,.h that detirable sio?of cc, a full affurance of a future enjoy-, he enemies of ment, of thole things that faith prefents unto us, and we are perfwa- the truth, it ded of our title to, and with liberty, freedom, and enlargednefs of fignifieth con- foul have prayed unto God for. So the Qiefiion is not concerningall viEtion,plain men, but believers, and not whether all believers have ir, but may Jnde i t6 s have it ; nor by revela:ion, but by ordinary means ; not whether they alwaies keep it ; nor about perfea, but certain infallible affurance in theft words : thin, The (queítion A believer may withaut extraordinary Revelation, certainly IZnow and be I Arm. from tnfthibly afuredof etern.1llife. f2cciálgrace. And this will be made evident by the proof of there twopropofi- rions. 1 .That a
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