The Lift óf Faith. 257 called tytg, it. So ,fruiting ni clod, and in cfss arid-, is not a hareopinion ofhis fidelity, but a PRACTICAL TtA.VST; and that you may be fifre to underhand it clearly, I will once open the partsof it diliindly. Divines commonly tell us that Faith is an Affiance or Tru;!f in God and fame of them fay that this is anad of the under- fianding, and form, that it is an ad of the soil, and others fay, that Faithconfitteth in Afeni alone, and that Tr:Jf or Affiance is as Hope, a fruit ofFaith, and not Faith it fetf: And what Af- fiance it felf its, is no final! con roverlie ( And Co it is what Faith and Chrifisnity is, even among the Teachers 1)1Chriflians.) Theplain truth is this : as ro thename of Faith' it fometime fignifieth a nicer Irrte/tc:.úal Ajfeet, when the eb').d rcquireth no more: And fonietmr iì fig .fieth a'prse#ìcal IroJf cr. Af- fiance, in the Truth oa. Ti, it nef of rue undertaker or pro - mifcr, that is, in his Porn= r, Wojdom and Goodnefs, or honeßy, conjund as exprelLi in his wo d ; and that is, when the matter Is probes!, requiring (Lich a truft. The former is oft called, The Chri/lisp è''aitdt ; becaufe it is the belief oithe truth ofthe GbrifianPrinciples ; and is the leading part of Faith in the full fettle. But it is the latter which is the GbriJfian Faille what tant as it is taken, not feeunalnen quid, but f:ntpy; netfor a part,but ajtb is the whole ; not for the opinion of men about Chrifl, but for Chriffianity it felt, or that Faith which mull beprofe/t in Bap tifm, and which hath the promife ofJuffification and Salva- tion. And this Truff or Affiance is placed refpedively on all the objct`is mentioned in the beginning ; on God as the ffr$f tienfoundation; and onCod as the ultimate end; as the cer- tainfull felinity, and final objcéi ofthe foul: Ou Cbrift as the Mediator, and as the fecondary foundation, and the guide, and the fini,Jher of our faith and falvation ; the chief fob reveille,. and performer : On the HolyGbef, as thethirdfoundation , bath revealing andattefing the dodrine by his gifts: And on the Apoiles andProphets ashis Inffruntentsand Cbriffs chiefentrcrfßeí Mefengers : And on the Premi jeor Covenant of Chrift as his IurjirumentalRevelation it fell : And on the scriptures as he authentiekRecerdofthis Revelation and Promife, And thebe- nehtfor which all thefe are trujfed, is, Amery te God, or Ito- K
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