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boa.3.
Ephefians,Chap.r.
V
ER.15,
Gods pardon
in
Chrift,it dorh
obtaine
remiffion
of
finne,and
fet
us
fr e
from
feare
of
damnation.
The
matter objefted'may
eafilybe
anfwered;.
ifthefe
two
things be remembred. Firft,
that
when thewords
of
know.
ledge doe
together by connotationimply
affeetion, much more
doe the
words
of
beleefe, and Ergo, where
.I
find
to
beleeve
that
Chrift
is
the
Sonne
of
God,
I
muft conceive this beleefe,
to
contain
confidence
in
the
Sonne. Secondly,
to
remember
that when
faith
pfany temporary
promife
is
faid
to
be accounted for righteoufneffe, it
is
becaufe
it
doth
in
beleeving the thing
temporal,
apprehend him
in
whom
all
the
pro
-
mifes areyea,and
Amen
;
who
is
at
leaft
the temoved
objeét
of
a
juftify.
ing faith
in
every thing
it
apprehendeth. Thus
Abraham
beleeving the
promife
of
feede
of
Ffaac,
did apprehend
that
bleffed feede
which
had
from
the
beginning beene promifed,and faw
his
day,which the
Apo-
file
doth
teftifie,
Gal.3.Neither
did
he looke
at the power
of
God,but
to
fuftaine his beleefe
of
a
feede
before promifed,
againft
the
tempta-
tions
wherewith God
did exercife
him ;
that
wehave
a
particular word,
and in effect
to
beleeve on
Chrift
unto forgiveneffe
of
our finnes,I
have
¡hewed above.
Wherefore
let
us
reft on
Chrift
alone
as
our rocke,flye to him
as our
truefanftuary.This
Papifts come to in death,renouncing any
confidence
in
their fooleries;thisthemfelves
give
teftimony únto,that
it is
the
fureft;
and he
is
not
wife
who
will
not
take
the
fafeft
way for
his foules
falvati-
on.
The
third Doctrineis,that faith
and love are never
difjoyned,but got
each
in
hand one with
the other: From what
time we beleeve, men
will
doe
any
great good things for us,we
feede a
love arifetoward them
:
fo
from what time
by
faith
we apprehend
love
in
God toward
us
through
Chrift,we
feede
love
refleéting
from
us
toward
him ; according
to
that,
We
love him,becaufe we haveknowne and beleeved
his
love to
us:Firft,
faith mutt bring the holy
fire
of
Gods
love
into our frozen hearts,
or
they will never be warmed with fervent love
to God
againe:
The
fin-
full foule
doth
fee
Gods
love forgiving itmany
finnes,
then it
loveth
muchagaine. In naturewe
fee
nothing
can
move
in
defireto this or
that,
till
firft
it hath apprehended
it
lovely
:
So our
affections
cannot
in
love
and defire
move to,
and unite
themfelves with
God,till by
faith we
doe
difcerne him
as
reconciled tous, and
fo
becomming
an
amiable
objeét
for
us
finncrs
to
embrace
;
till
that
faith difcerneth
this, nothing
but
wrath,
like a
confuming fire, abideth
overus.Hence it
is
that
Saint Paul,
e
Tim.maketh
to
flow
from faith
unfained
;
and Gal.5. he
faith,
thatfaith
worketh
by
love,not
as fire
maketh
hot by
beate, which
is
a for
-
mall
property inherent
in
it;
but as the
foule
doth
this
or that
by
the
hand, which
is
an externe inftrument conjoyned unto
it
:
for
love
is
not
any
effentiall caufe
which doth give being to faith,but
it
is a
grace with-
out
the
being
of
faith, though joyned unto,
by
which,
as
an inftrument,
faith
worketh.
The Ufe
of
this
Doctrine
is, to fhew
how
unjuftly
they
flander
us
as
teaching a faith alone
without other graces;
when we hold
according
to