(397) hieing life. My fheep hear my voice, and I know them, and I will give unto them eternal life. See I Thef. z. 8,9, z o. Becaufe they obeyed not the Gofpel of our Lord Jefus Chrift, to be led and guided by him, the Prince of their falvation, but followed their own reafon, tufts and fenfes,&c. TjEre I obferve 1. That it is Quilts own perfon that is the Klfirft objen of our laving faith, and 2. That Receiving or ac- cepting him is the principal an, 3> But not the only aet ; for be- lieving the Gofpel is one. 4. That the receiving of Chrift him- felf is the condition of our intereft in all his benefits following, and that they follow upon our interea in him. Of which bene- fits, Juflification is one. 5. That this receivingwWch is requilice that Chrift and his benefits be ours, is the receiving him entirety, as King, PrickProphet, Head, &c. 35.1-"Nr.rho.raylor, Regal. Pit. page 55 .0biell. What ? will Dr. Thovv 1-/you teach Iuftification by works?Anfiv. No,e call not Taylor. men toLegal fulfilling of the Commandment, but Evangelical : as a When the mind delighteth in the Law of God as holy, jai., and good. 2. When the heart hides it,to conform unto it. 3 . When the Affedion defireth to fulfil it, &c. 4. When in his anions he beginneth that obedience, &c. This the Gofpel accept. eth, &c.] Page. 72, Er. 3. We are meet Patients in the Cosies of bleffednefs, but in refpeet ofConditions we are not fo : For as we laid of faith, we may alto fay of good works ; God enableth to theni, but man worketh them, and walketh in the wayof them to Bleffednefs. Not that our works are Cattfes, but Conditions, without which bleffednefs is not attained. See Mat. 25'. 35. 36.1"-Nr.Stoughtan,In his Definitionof Divinity,pag. 27.among Stoughton, lithe means to Happinefs, reckoneth [Thofe pious at of man which are neceffary for the obtaining thereof,efpecially thofe that direaly and immediately have God for their Objet}. Whe Cher thefe Anions have a Relation ofEfficiency to that happinefs, under whichNotion we conceive of means ordinarily,and perhaps e e 3 not
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