The- Life ofFaith. CHAP. VI. How Faith raf he metaledon Gods Threatnings and judg- ments. H E cxercife of Faith upon Gods Threatnings and 1 judgments, mutt be guided by filch rules and helps as theft. Diredt. i. Think not either that Chriff hash no Threatning adpenal Laws, or that there are none which are made for the ufe of Believers. Ifthere were no penalties, or penal Lad's, there were no diftinguifhing Government ofthe world. This Antinotriian fan- cy dcttroyeth Religion. And if there be threats, or penal Laws, none can be expedcd to make fo mach utc of thetti as true Believers, 1. Bccaufe he that meet believeth them, mutt needs be molt affet`,ted with them. 2. Becaufe all things are for them, and for their benefit; and it is they that mutt bemcvtd by them to the fear of God, and an efcaping of the punilh- ment. And therefore they that obj CI, that Believers are pared al- 'ready from death to life; and there is no condemnation to them ; andthey are already juffifi:d, and therefore have no ufe of threats orfears] docontradd themfclves : For it wit rather follOw Therefore they and they only do andwill faithfully ufe the threat- flings in godly fears.] For r. Though they ate )uffifted, and palledfromdeath to tote, they have ever fatb, in order of na- ture before their]ultifjcatton ; and he that bclisveth not Gods threatnirágs with fear, hach no true Faith. And 2. Tney have ever inherent Rghteoufiefs or Sanieiftcarion, with their ]u- !litìcation : And this Faith is part of that holincfs, and of the lifeof grace which they are paired into. For this is life eternal, to know the only trueGod, and Jefus Chriff, John 17.3. And he knoweth not God, who knowcth him not to be war.. And this is part ofour knowledge of Christ alfo, to know him as the infallible Author of soir Faith, that is, of the G.>fpcll, which faith not only, Hi that believetb and is bavtiZ'd, ßiul be!Meer; but alto, He that believetb not fhJE be damned, Mark 6.1d. And p.p this. ?97
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