40 Direalions forgetting and keeping take as a certain evidence of your Juflification And this Condition is the very link which conjoineth all theGeneral. foregoing Grace to all the ref}of the following fpecial Grace. The Scripture isfo full and plain in Afuring Pardon and falvation. to all true Believers, that if you canbut before thatyouare a Believer yóu need not make anj doubt of your in- tere/l in Chrifig, andyour falvation. Seeing there- fore that all the queltion will be, Whether youhave true Faith ? Whether you do perform the Condi- tion of the new Covenant ? ( For all other doubts God bath given' you fufficient ground to refolve, as is Paid) how much then doth it concern you to have a right underftanding of the Nature of this Faith? Which that youmay have,let me tell you briefly what it is. Mans foul bath two faculties , Underftanding and Will : Accordingly the Objets ofmans foul (all Beings which it is to Receive ) have two Modifications; Truthand Goodnefs(as thofe to be Avoided are evil. ) Accordingly Gods Word or Gofpel bath two parts ; the Revelation ofTruth,and the Offer and Promife of fome Good. Thisoffered Good is principally and immediatelyChrift himfelf to be jóyned to us by Covenant, as our head andhuf- band: The fecondary Confequential Good,is Pardon, Juflification, Reconciliation, Adoption, further San- äification and Glorification, which are all offered withChrift. By this you may fee what Paving Faith is : It is firft a Believing that the Gofpel is True ; and thenan AcceptingofChrift therein offered to us,with his benefits : or a contenting that he beours, and we behis ; which is nothing but a truewillingnefs to have an
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