78 lnferencef 'from believer, who hath no confidence, neither in Chrifl, nor in himfelf, that he fhall have life and falvation ; however he may believe firmly that others !hall; fo this faith, this covenanting, is quitea~aother thing, than either the·falfe faith of the profane and prefLtrn.pruous hypocrite: or the no-faith of the defperate, or the wa· vering doubter, who can never fix in greater or leffer n1eafL1re of confidc.mce in Chrifi, for falvation to him– felf, James i. 6. 'But let him afk in faith, nothing wave'ring : for he that wavereth is like a wave of the fea, driven with the wind, and toffed. Ver. 7· For let not that man think that he .fhall receive any thing of the Lor·d.' . If any think this to be an eafy way of believing or covenanting, either they mifiake it, or they try it not. To believe, upon fome ground we fee in ourfelves, is very natural : buno believe, merely, upon a ground in another, namely, righteouji1e.[s inChrijl, andfaith– fulnefs in God; while all in ourfelves tends to make us ,defpair, is above the reach of.nature. A confcience thr'oughly awakned will convince a finner, that 'tis a matter of greatefl: difficulty. Inf. 2. Jufl:ifying faith, though it receives Chri.ll: in all his offices, as Prophet, Priefl, and King; yet as it enters us perfonally into the covenant,and jufiifies, it eyes him in his priefily office particularly; namely, as the great High Priefi, . :who hath made atonement for fin, by the facrifice of himfelf; as th~ furety, who undertook and compleated the ·payment of the debt of punifhment and duty ; and as the Kinfman– Redeemer, who having married our nature to the Di· vine nature in himfelf, redeem'd the mortgag'd in– heritance with his own ' blood, gavehimfelfa ranfom for us to deliver us from our 'fpiritual bondage, and by his death defiroyed him that had the power of death. Rom. :iii. 25. ' Whom .God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood.' Chap. v. 1 J. ' Our Lord Jefus Chrifr, by whom we . have
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