W04 Of the Manner 2 fee his Shadow in the Glafs : Will it there- fore follow that Öis Shadow was in the Glafs ere lie came to fee it, feeing it was the ObjeEt of his At of Seeing.?. No, It is coming to look in the Glafs, did caufe his Image app pear therein, Faith is the Means by which Reanifion of Sins is applied: and the Eye by which we fee, . in the Glafs of the Pro- mifes, our Sins pardoned, and Chrift made ours ; and hence it being the Union betwixt Chrift and. our Souls, it's not neceffary in Order thereunto, that there be any.' Union, but by Faith the Union is made : If we come to a Room where there is a well drawn PourtraiE ure, it appears not to look to us till wé look' to it, and thete who look up:- on it do not fee it looking on anp other but themfelyes ; fo the Mercies of the NewCo- venant are drawn in the 'Promifes Whilft we look not on them, we cannot fay, their look tous: But when by the Eye of Faith, we fee them, we fee them poking to Wherefore Dr. Ames, in his Book againft . ellarmine, moft excellently P. 92, faith, We do not fay, that fpecial Mercy antecedently to Faith is the Object of Faith, but that Faith terminates to Mercy and Goodwill, which by Fait!, , (ecomes, fpecial and laving. And elfewhere, That the Objec`i before .Faith is conditional, but Faithclang with the Object, the Ob- jcet beco amès abfolutf ; Believing is the fub- jeaiye
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