Right to Chrij}. 309 jefiy. . Mean while, tho' the gift is quite above your ·dignity; yet it is no more than what your need ,re– quired. Iflefs could have anfwered your nece.ffity, · there's no grqund to thi'nk a crucified Chrifi the ·Son ofGod, would have been prepared for you. If you do but fuppofe n, you mar that expreffion of match: le,fs love, John iii. 16~ ' God . fo loved the world, that he ga.ve his only begotten Son.' Wherefore 1 argue with yourfelves in this manner~ ' The gift is, indeed unfpe'!kable, but no lefs can ·ferve my, need ; · if Chriil: be not mine, I mufl periih : fince therefore ' G'od hath faid it, that he hath given me Chrifl, and the gift is not above him to give ; and no lefs can ferve my turn ; I mufi and will · b~lieve, that he is mine, with h4 righteoufnefs andfolvation. IV. 'Ihe Faith ofparticular Trufi for Salv:tion. · Finally, You mufi wholly trufi on hin1 as your Saviour and in his righteoufnefs a5 made over to you ; and that, for his whole fahration to you in particu– r lar, upon the ground,ofGod's fai.thful1.1,efs in his word. And this is thatfoving faith, or believing on Chrifl Jef.us, by .which a fi11ner is united to hi~, and per- ' fonally entered within the covenant of grace; qnto falvation, AB:s · xvi. 31. ' Believe on the Lord Jefus Ch'rifi, 'and thou fualt be f:wed.' Pfal. ii. 12. 'Kifs the Son left he be angry, and ye perilh- · -: Bleifed are all they that put their trufi in him.' And xxxvii. 40 •. 'He lhall (ave them, becaufe they trufi in him." Rom. xv. 12. 'In him lhall the Gentiles trufi .' co~pare Ifa. xi. 10•• Rom.. i. , 17. ' Therein is the rigli– teoufnefs of God revealed from faith to faith ; or, Therein is the righteoufnefs of God by faith, reveal– ed unto fGJ.ith,' to wit, to be believed or tr~fied on. See Philip. iii. 9· Gal. ii_. 16.- ' We have believ.ed in Jefu~ Chrifi, that we might be jufiified.' AB:s .x~. 1 1. ' We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jefus Chrifi we ihall be faved.' 1 ThefT. ii. 13. 'Ye • · U 4 received ' '
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