- C h4p.7. and the Covenant of Grace. 4r3 fif1s in a belief of the pardon of my own firs (which is this ;Conclufon) have therfpre thought that thus is it which theSacrament fealeth,dnd when the Papifis alledge,that it is no "here raten,th,at filch or fuck a man is jellified; we Rnfwer then ,that it being w' itten that he that be.` leezeth isjtff ifted,thie is equivalent,But Mr- Baxter doubtles knows, that many Divines who are out of that errour, concerning ,the na- ture of juftifying faith, an4 ba se learned to difting. }ú1h, between faith in the effenceöfit, and atíu;ra nce; yet are,confidently per- fwaded that the Sacrament fealesthis C,o,nclufion, knowing that the S.acrament fealeth,what the Covenant promife'th to the per - fons inCoyenant, and upon the fame termes as the .Covenant' loth promife it. Now the Covenant promifesjforgiveneffe of fins, (as Mr. Baxter confef!es) conditionally, and this to all in Cove- nant, and this the Sacrament feáleth. And, as it is as an errour to hold, that to beleeve .iny fins are forgiven, is of the nature,or of fence of faith, as though prone did ;beleeve, but thofe that had at- tained -fucb affurance, . {True faith bath affurance in purfuit on- ly, fometi;mes, and not ,alwayes in paffeffion) fo on the other bandit is.a,miftake to fay chat it s no work of faith. The Apottle calls it, ,the full affurance of faith, Heb. io. zz. and ..defcribeth faith to 'be the ftsbgance.of things hoped for; faith realizeth falvati- on, which we have in hope to the foul. A defcription of faith (faith Dr. Ame f out of a Schoolman) by one of the molt emi- nent a &s;that it produceth, therefore I take that to be a good anfwer that is here charged with errour, that when it is written, He that beleeveth is juftif.ed,itis equivalent,as though it were fuch . or fuch a man is juftified, in cafe with allured grounds,and infal- lible demonftrations he can make is good to his own felt that he beleeveth; But this is Paid to be a grl fr'e miftrske, and thus proved, as though the majorPrapofition alone iùere equivalent to the .Conclufi- on. But here being in our Syllogifme both a major and a minor, there is added further, or as if the Conclufion mull or can be meerly credenda, a proper obje 1 offaith, When but one of the Propoftions is of faith, and the :otherof fenfe and knowledge. Here the major is con- felt to be of faith, but the minor .I fincerely ,beleeve, is affirmed tobe known by inward fenfe and felf- refiecion. Here I mutt en- ter my diffent, that a Conclution may be credenda, an ob ¡ea of faith, when but one of the Propofitions is offairr5, and the o tier of fenfe and knowledge; yea that it will hold in matters G 2 of
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