298 The Life of Faith. this is the record which God gave of his Son, which be that be- lievetb net, maketh him a lár ; !bat God bathgiven us eternal. lofe, and this life is in his Son : He that bath the Son, bath life ;. and he that bath not the Son, bath not life, i John 5. z a. Yea as be that believeth on the Son, bath everts fling life ; fo he that belicveth not the Son,fhall not fee life, but the wrathof God abidetb en biro, John 3,.36. And therefore 3. The rcafon why there is no condemnation to us, is becaufe believing, not part only, but all this Word ofCbriff, we fly fromfin andwrath, and are in Cbrilf Puns, as giving up our Pelves tohim, and walknot after she f ub, but after tbeSpirit ; being moved fo to do both by the protttifes and threats of God. This is plain Englith, and . plainand neceítàry truth, the greater is the pitty, that many. honeft, well- meaning Antinomians thould fight againti it, on an ignorant conceit of vindicating Free Grace : If the plain Wordof God were not through partiality over-lookt by them, they might fee caough to end the controverfre in many and full exprtffions of Scripture. I will cite but three more, Mattb. i:o. 215. and Luke 12. 5. But fearbim who is able to deffroy both: foul and body in Hell ; or when be bath killed, bath power focal} into Hell ; yea I fayuntoyou, fear him. DochChritt thus iterate that it is he that faith it, and faith it to his Difciples; and yet {ball a Chriflian fay, it mutt not be preached to Difciplcs as the Word of Chritt to them ? Hb.4. z. Let us thereforefear, leffa promife being left us of ante ing into his reif, any of you ¡bouldTeem to come fhort of it. Hob. 11.7. By Faith Noah beingwarned of God, of things not feen asyet (that is, ofthe deluge) moved with fear, prepared anArk, to thefaving of*it bosrfe ; ty the which be condemned the world, and became heir of the rigbteoufnefs which is by faith. Note here how much the belief of Gods threatnings Both to the conffitution of that faith which is juttifying and Laving. Dirce. 2, Judgenot ofGods threatnings by the- evil which ie ehreained, but by the obedience to which tb-e threatnings !hold ¿rive us, and the evilfromwhich they would preferve us, and the arder of the world which-they preferve, and the wifdom, and bo- ÿtteß, aced juffice of God; which they demonffrate. When men thinkhow,dreadful a mifery Hell is, they are. ready;
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