3r 2 The Faith ofpartictdar Rom- \tii. 24, 25. ' Who £hall deliver me from t.he pody of this death ! I thank God thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord.' For, 'tis '!- tnlil:ing oi1 Chrifi, .not for the half of his falvation; to wit, falvation from wrath only, which is all the trufl: of many, being by no n1eans defirous to part wirh fin ; but for the whole of it, namely, falvation fi·om wrath, and falvation ' from fin too, which . is the principal part thereof, ·Matth. i. 21. Now a man may indeed fear' that from one, which he cloth not defir'e : but no body trufts in one, for what he defires not. FaithJs a believing with the heart. Ram. x. 10. The whole falvation of Chrifi is the believer's choice ; 'tis the end he de– fires to compafs ': and the trufi of faith, is exerted as the means to compafs that erld. . Secondly, A' renouncing of all confidence, in all that is not Chrifl: or in Chrifr, as to the m~tter offal– vation particularly. In this trufr, is overturned felf– confidence, law-confidence, creature-confidence; and the foul builds Gn a quite new grdund, Philip. iii. 3· ' \Ve rejoice in Chrifi Jefus, and have no confidenc~ in the flefh.' Jer. xvi. 19. 'The Gentiles fhall come unto thee, and {hall fay, furely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.' For it is a trufiing wholly on Chrifr and his righteoufnefs, a trufling, or·a believing, with all the heart, Prov. iii. 5. AB:s viii. 37. At this rate, the believer is carried off from the works of the law, to the blood of 7efus, for his jufiification ; and car– ried out of himfelf too, unto the Spirit of holinefs in Chrifi, for his fancHfication: ', being perfuaded, that no doing nor fuffering of his own, can procure him the pardon of, or atone for, the leafl: piece of guilt ,; and that he is not able truly to mor,tify . one ·lufl, more as to purge away the guilt of one fin, Matth. v. 31 • . Ifa. xlv. 24. 1. Thirdly, A hearty approbation of the plan Qt de- . vice of falvation according to the covenant, .mani– fefied
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