2 Of. the Manner, labours.; but, How f aÌl I be fav d ? Look as When the Jaylor ¿sk'd, As xvi. whit he Thould do that he might be fled. And when it was anfwered,r Believe on the Name of the Lordyefus. So, is therenot here an Aft ? Believing, or the Ground of this Believing, or Act ; and that is the Name of the Lord Jefus; this is the Fouindation on which Faith- believes, otr the formal Obje& of Faith. I ask, What is it (which) we believe or quod Credimus on the Name of Chrifi ? ,furely, if it be any Thing, it muft be that anent which the great Q ieflion is at prefenti that which Would moll comfort us, were it true, and which we now fear molt; and what is that, but the Salvation of our Souls. This then, as that which lies nearef the'eatt muft be in theSoul's Eye, or Faith's Eye,when it believes, as being the End.of Faith at which it reaches Reafon 4th. Otherwife a Sinner could not be ¡unified particularly, unlefs Faith did ap-; ply particularly the Promifes ; for it iscertain, That it is by Faith we are jufliîea* from the Purfuit of the Law, and ,that iníirumentally, by laying hold on, proponirrg, alledging, and apprehending fomething, which, in Law, when propounded, can abfolve the Man; for Faith ¡unifies in Refpeif of its Opjeá with which it clofes, and not as an A&, or conditionally, ótherwife were it of Works, though not of rerfat Works è Wherefore Faith muft dole with
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