. ~y Faith, l'r Bellevllfl· 181' ~t'J.d ·t:llvation. But here arifeth a weighty quefiion, to wit, Q.uefl. ' What is that believing, by which one u• nites with je(us Chrift, and fo enters into the covenant of grace ? An(. The clearing of this point being fo ne... ; ceifary, to direCt: finners in their way into ·the cove..– ':'lant, for their· eterrtal falvatio~; we fuall, for what now remains, addrefs ourfelves to the confideration thereof only. And to begin with the word, by which the holy Ghofi expreffe-ch what we call belie-ving, whether in the Old or New- tefiament; whofoever fuall ,duly confi.. . der the import of it, in the Scripture ufe thereof; wiH find, that it ·is ju_fl: trufiing, .trufting a wor<;I, perfon .or ·thing. And \lenee the Scri p,ture phrafes, ofbelieving to, and believing in, that is trufting to,. 2nd trufiing in; th'e former phraf~s, however,. unufual • with us in oonverfation, yet· ordinary, both in the Old and New-tefiament,. according to the ,Originals. It is the , tru!Hng a word, as to a report, Ifa. Jiii. 1. In: his words, Pfalm cvi. 12. 'Tis the truiling a Perfon: fo, in the iHle of the holy Ghofi, 'the Ifraelites' be- . lieved in the Lord; and in Mofes his fervant,' Jo!>·, iv. J8. that is, as we_read it, He put no trqft in them.. ' ,And it is the trufiing a Thing too: fo, in the fame fl:ilo · Job x~xix. 12. ' Wilt thou belieYe in him' (to wit.-. · the ,unicorn) ' t~1at he will bring home thy feed ?•, i. e. Wilt thou trufi in him, that he'll do it? Deur,.' ,xxviii. 66. ' Thou fualt not believe in thy life1' that is, as we read it, ' Thou !halt have noaifurance of thy life;' no trufi in it, becaufe no certainty about .it. 'The phrafeology is the fame in the New-tefiament, . as being brought into it from the Ql(.i, only in a dif.o._ ferent language. And taking the meaning of the holy:– Ghofi in this matter, from the ·words which he· teacheth, as we are directed, ~· Cor. ii. 13. we con., <;lude, That faith or believing, fo exprefl: by him in the- Scripture, is, in the general, Y"rufling, the trufi~ T ~~ . '
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