276 What it is to liveby Faith touching s Pet.s. 13. redemptionof thepterchafeadpofeffion, usto thepraifeofbir glory, Toe feede whereofthe faithfull are begotten is incor- ruptible, the life, which they liveby faith in Chri(l:," is an John,5,24, everia(ling life. Verily, verily Ifay unto you, He that John,i7.3, heareth my word, and believeth on him that fensmee, bath lohn.6.47. everlafting lafe, sand 'hiall not come into condemnation, but is ' pairedfrom death unte lire. And this is the recor i, that God bathgiven to us eternal life, and this life is in his Sonne, s Iob, S, s 1312' flee that bath the Sonne bath life, andbee that bathnot the Sonnebathnot life. Now the Scriptures faying,He that be- lieveth'path everlafing life, and (hall not come intocon- demnation, doth import that faith and the fiuirs thereof be filch fromWhich the godly through the power ofGod never fall. Luk,az,32. And fbr further confirmation, the Scripture te(iifierh, Ioh17.15 that Chri;t hath prayed for his people that their faith lhould not faite, that they fl,)uld lee kept from the evill. This cannot be re[Irained to the Apohaes, but it is the common priviledge oral, the faithfuls ; 2`;ither Verle via, pray Ifor thefe alone;butfor all them alfo which /hallbelieve onwee through their word. And the interceflion ofChrifl; even for this particular blefling of the not failing of faith, never ceafeth, is ever effeauall, and fpeedeth al- wayes> And that nothing might be wanting to full confola- tion in this point, weare allured from God, that he will x >8, perfca the worke ofgrace which he hath begun, Who Jhall alfo confirme you unto theend, thatyee may bee blame- Phil, 1,6, lefe án the day ofthe Lord lefts Ch"ilt, Being confident of this very thing, that bee which bath begun agoodworke en you, willperforme it until theday ofIefus Chriff, Faithful as bee that calleth you, who alfo will doe it, that u, (as t Thcfr,5 z4. goethimmediarely before) preferveyour wholeftnrit, and foule andbody blaenelefe unto the coemniny ofour LordIefee4 t Then',3,3. Cbriffl, TheLord isfaithfull, who ¡hall effablebyou, and keepeyou from evil, Now
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