PART III, ofgracious fe5fions, 183 ve me ; and they have received them, and have knownfnrely that .1 came outfrom thee ; and they have believed that thou didjl fendme. Aas8.37. If thou believ fi with all thy Heart, thou may . 2 Cor. 4. II, 12, 13, 14. We which live, are always delivered unto Death, for fief s fake : - ---Death worketh in us ; - - -- we having the Spirit of Faith ; according as it is written, I believed, F., therefore have I fpoken ; we a f believe, and therefore fpeak : Knowing that he which railed up the Lord fefus, (hall raijeus up afo by efus, and (hall prep' us withyou. To- geth with Ver. 16. For which Caufe, wefaint not. And Ver. 18, while we look not at the Things which are feen, &c. And Chap. 5. r. For we know that ifour earthly Houle of this Tabernacle were di,7lved, we have a Building of God, - - - -- And Ver. 6, 7, 8. `Therefore 2?:e are always confident ; knowing that whiljl we are at home in the Body, we are abfentfrom the Lord : For we walk by Faith, not by Sight ; wt are confident, Ifay, and willing rather to be abfentfrom the Body, and prefent with the Lord. 2 Tim. 1. 12. For the which Caufe, I all- infer thefe Things : Neverthelefs, I am not afhamed ; for I know whom I have believed; and I am per*aded that he is able to keep that which i have committed unto him, again/l that Day. Heb. 3. 6. Whofe Houle are we, ifwe holdfall the Confidence, and the Rejoycing of the Hope, firm unto the End. Heb. r I. I. Now Faith is the Sub/lance ofThings hopedfor, and the Evidence of Things not feen : Together with that whole Chapter. r John 4. 13, 14, 15, 16. Hereby know we that we dwell in hinz,and he in us becaufe he bath given us of hisSpirit ; and we have feen, and do teftify, that the FatherPent the Son to be the Saviour of the World. Whofoever confefs that ofss is the Son of God, God dwelled) in him, and he in God. ffnd we have known and believed the Love that God bath to us. Chap. 5. 4, 5. For whatfoever is born of God, overcometh the World: And this is the T'it7ory that overcometh the World, even our Faith. if ho is be that overcometh the World, but he that believeth that fefus is the Son of God ? Therefore truly gracious Affeaions are attended with fuch a Kind of Conviction and Perfwafion of the Truth of the Things of the Gof- pel, and Sight of their Evidence and Reality, as thefe and other Scrip- tures fpeak of. There are many religious Affeccl:ions, which are not attended with fuch a Conviction of the Judgment. There are many Apprehenfions and Ideas which fome have, that they call divine Difcoveries, which are affecting, but not convincing. Tho' for a little while, they may feem to be more perfwaded of the Truth of the Things of Religion, than they ufed to be, and may yield a forward Affent, like many of Chrit}'s Hearers, who believed for a while ; yet they have no thoro' and effectual Conviction ; nor is there any great abiding Change in them, in this Refpect, that whereas formerly they did not realize the great Things of the Gofpel, now thefe Things, with Regard to Re- N 4 ality
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