Ch: 1 I . TheFruits ofFaith. Hebrews. The FruitsofFaith. Ch. I f .Ant He that Sincerely and truftingly belie- was paft age, bècaufe the judged veth and pradifeth theft, (hall not perish, but faithful who had romifed g him what more is nece(fary God will makeknown P tó him : for of ,a truth whoever den it God r r. And Sarah paftAge, brought forth /par, is no Refpeder of I'erfons, but in every Na- becaufe the truftedGod's Promi(è, againft naat- tion he that feareth God, and worketh Righ- nil probability. teoufnefs, is accepted of him. And ifa Soul 1 z. Therefore fpraltg there even of that truly ioveth God, and is accepted of him, one, and him asgood as dead, fo many Mould be in Hell,Heaven it felf Should be in as the hats of the sky in multitude, By faith Noah being warned of and as the fand which is by the fea- 7' y g those innumerable. God of things not feed as yet, moved xs. Thus the numerous Seed oflfrael(prang with fear, prepared an ark to the fa- from one, dead to generating, by believing ving.of his houfe, by the which he God. condemned theworld,and becameheir _ 13. Thefe' all died in faith, not ha- of the righteoufnefs which is by faith. ving received the promifes, but having 7. Nose, I. God's Revelation was Noah's feen them afar off, and were perfwa- Wanting. 2. The Flood neither Peen, nor ded of them, and embraced them, and likely in it felt was the thing revealed and be- confeffed that they were fpran ers and Sieved, with theway to 'fcape. 3. True Belief pilgrims on the earth. g will be of edual in an obedient ufo ofGod's appointed means of Salvation. 4. The belief =3 Both Abraham and his Poftericy long of God'sThreatnings is a panof Saving Faith, lived as Strangers, before the Promifed Land s. Faithful Obedience toGod, condemneth the was given to their Succefiòrs, which they re- unbelieving, rebellious World. S. All the ceived not dtemfelves. And Abraham, who ads of Faithgo to make as Heirs of the Righ- forefaw Chrift'sbay, and rejoyced andhis be- of Faith, that is, to be laved, as thofe sievi'tb' Seed, died in that Faith, with law him that God accounteth acceptably righteous. 7. To afar o11 (and the heavenly glory ppromifed by be moved with the promifed glory and threál- him) and yet lived not to fee the promifed ned mifery that is unfeen, is the Life ofFaith. Mefitab, but confefléd that they were Pilgrims onEarth, tho' they believed and embracedthe 8. By faith Abraham, when he was Promifes. called togo out into a place which he 14. For they that fay fuch things, Mould after receive for an inheritance, declare plainly that they kek A coup- obeyed, and he went out, not know- trey. ing whither he went. 14. And as their taking themfelves IhrStran- a. Why did ,Abraham go, when God called gets in Cascara,' ihew'S that they were not yet him into an unknown Land, but that he pradi- at home, and were but Seekers of a Country tally (rutted and believed God, that he wou d promifed ; fo thofe that were true Believers, give it his Seed for an Inheritance ? confeffing that they were but Strangers and By faith he fojourned in the land Pilgrims on Earth, declare, that it was a better 9. Y J place than Earth that they fought and hoped for. of promife, as in a ftrange country, ' 5. And truly' if they had been dwelling in tabernacles with Ifaac and mindful of that countrey, fromwhence Jacob, the heirs with himof the fame they came out, they might have had , promife. ro. For he looked for a city opportunity to have returned. which hath foundations, whole builder , 1 s. And it was not Chatdea, whence they and makeris God. came, which they fought ; for they might have 9, ro. And why did he (and ¡face and Jaceb) returned to that. fojoum there in Tents as Strangers? but becaufe 16. But now they delire a better hebelieved that God would give his Pofterity countrey, that is, an heavenly : Where- Cities there (lochas 7erofalem) thong andwal- foreGod is not afhamèd to be called led, infteadof Tents, and would give him in their God : for he hath e themean time ñ place in the Heavenly yerufa- pr pared for tem, for his Faithand Obedience toGod. them a city. a a. Through faith alto Sarah her t6. But it wasa better Country which they fell received ftrength toconceive feed, deIir d, and tho' the Carnal Seed look'd'but re and was delivered of a child when the Canaan, the True Believers took eerufalem but as a Type of the yerufalem above, and chieNÿ deûr'd
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