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384.
Epbefian.r,Chap.;.,
V
B
R.
>ts.
Dorf.
2.
Wee
fee, What
is
the nature
of
a
true juffifying
faith, it
is not onel
Faith
is
not
a
é
knowled
a
andagent in
general,
but
a ton
dent
imhrace which the heart
bare
but
a
confident
maketh
of
the
thing
to
which
he
bath
aßeieted.
embracing
But becaufc this
place
is
pleaded
bythe
adverfary
againff us,
there-
with
the
hg
art
of
thin
fore we
mull
infli
a
little
in di(
cuffing
the
truth
of
ourcolleáion.
the
aWïcnted
to.
They
hence reafon
thus, to prove
that
faith
is
not
a croft
and confi-
dent perfwafion
in
particular.
A
ropui
col-
That
which
is
the effcfi
of
faith,
is
not
faith:
teftion
anfwe-
But boldneffe and confidence arc
the
effects
of
faith.
red.
Our
anfwer
is
three-fold.
a. By
the
like ;
that
which
is
the
effea
of
fire is
not
in fire, heat
is
the
effeEl:
fo
that the propofition
thus would be weak.
To
the
fecond part:
Confidence
hash
a
double acception:
Twoaeeepti-
r. It
is
putfor
an
imbrace or
clafping
about this
or
that
in
parti-
onsofconfi-
colar,
which the
heart maketh,
and
which
is
an
as
of
faith.
aence.
a.
For fecurity,
Peace palling underftanding which
refulceth
hence
:
for that
confidence
which
is
a
confirmed hope
of
things
abfent,of
which the Papilts
difcourfe
fo
much,
cannot
be
proved from the
Scripture:
the
Scripture fpeaketh
of
it
as
a
particular
perfevafion
of
things prefent.
Now
I ardwer, confidence
in
the
firft kind
is
an
ad of
faith
,
not
n
effect:
confidence
in
the
other
is
an effccl,and we
grant
all
,
if
it be
fo
taken, for
it
faith
nothing
againft
us.
Now
hence we reafon infallibly
to
the
contrary.
That which begetteth liberty
and
confidence
,
that
muff be more
then
a
knowledge
and
affair;
for
the devils have this and yet tremble:
and
if
that
I were almoft ftarved
,
and fhould
know
of
a
great
feaft,
and
that
many fhould be invited
,
but
fhould
not
have
any certainty
that Iamong
the reft fhould, only
a
hope
of
peradventure,
how
could
this
quiet
one
in filch efface:,
Nay
if
there fhould
not
bee a confident
imhrace
of
thefe things
by
faith,
it could not bring
forth
confidence:
as
the fruit
is in
the
feed, fo
is
this confidence
in
faith,
for
elfe no
more
that which
is
not hot
can make
hot: therefore
the
Scriptures oppofe
to
faith not only unbeliefe, but miliruff, calleth confidence faith
as
the
Papas
grant. lam. r. 6. compare
with
r lehn
5
. 14.
And
it
is
profi-
table
to
marke their
doeirine
of
their faith with the
Apoftles: they
fay
a
true faith for fubftance may be
with
full defpaire
in
the
fame perfon,
the Apoftlefaith that faith breedeth
boldneffe and fecure
accefte
to
God.
obje
One
objeâion
is
to
be anfwered
which force
weak ones maymake.
If
all
faith have thefe
effects,
then
1
have
no
faith,
for I
cannot
find
them.
Anf.
The
Apoftle fpeaketh
de
jure,
what
all
believers
may doe.
Howa
weak
a.
De
fate,
what they doe
in
force
part
that
are weakeff
in
faith,
Faith hash
and more fully
they that
arc
further growen
in
it.
We
molt know
confidence.
that the
afire
of
itis
fomc
meafure
of
it.4.That
like
feed
in
the
earth,or
the
foule
in a
fowne,, fo
may confidence
be
fora
fcafoa
in a
believer.
Oa