The Life of Faith. 3 03 of /Teach and they were exprclly to fay Amen to each of them. For life and death were Pet before them; bleffings and cu:tirgs, Deut. 30. r, r9. and not life and blefogs a :one. And fo the Gofpet which we are to believe, containeth though principally and eminently the Promifes ; yet fecondarily alfo the tbreatnings of He to impenitent unbelievers. And our content loth fpcak our approbation. Urea.. î. Ob(erve that the belief of Chriffs threatnings of dam- nation to impenitent unbelievers, is a real part of the chriffian faving Faith, and that when ever it is j ynedwith a truc love and defireafter holinefl, it certainlyproverb that the Proudfes alfo are believed, though the party think, that be dosh not belittle them. Note here r. That I do not fay, that aft belief or fear of Gods threatnings is frying Faith. But z. That all fving Faith containeth fuch a b_licf of the threatnings. i. And that many times poor Chriftiass, who believe and tremble at the threat- nings, do truly believe the Promifes, and yet miftake, and ve- rily think that they do not believe them. 4. But their mi- flakemay certainlybe manifefted, if their Faith dobut work. by a love and defire after holinefl, and the fruition of Gad. For r. It is evident that the fame Gofpel which faith, He that believeth (hall befaved ; doth fay, He that believetb not (hall be damned. Therefore the fame faith belicveth both, `a. It is plain that the fame formal objec`d offaith, which is Gods.. Veracity, will bring a man to believe one as well as the other, ifhe equally know it to be a divine revelation : He. that be- licvcth that All that Godfaith to true : and then bclicvcth that God faith that Al true Believers fhaa bePaved ; mutt needs be- lieve that this Promife if true. And he that underttandeth that Chr.tì faith, Vnbelievers[hall be damned; cannot but find affo that hefaith, True Believers fhall be fiver!. And if he believe the one, becaufe it is the word of Chriti ; he doth Cure believe the other, becaufe it is the word of Chritt. 3. Yea it is in ma- ny rcfpcds harder to believe Gods threatnings, than his 'pro- miles ; partly becaufe [inners arc more unwilling that they fhould be truc; and they have more enmity to the threatning, than to the promife; and partly becaufe they commonly feign God to be fuci as they yyoild have him be, Pfal, 50. Thom eft
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