Fraser - BT770 F73 1722

or Form of Edith. To5 jeaive Condition of the Accomplifhm.ent of the Prornife : Now look as I may delire a Man to look on Inch a Piaure looking to- wards him, 'though* that PiCture dotli'. not look on him till he look on it ;' The Pic- ture loaking on him is the Cbjeaof this Aft, and yet it is not looking on the Perfon; bè= fore the A& of the Man, Who looks on it eve') fo, it is not neceflàry that the Promifes enunciate fpecial Mercy to us before we be- lieve, and clofe with them : But as Anrefiaas faith, before Faith they are general and con- ditional, but Faith the Condition apprelien-- cíing them; they become-to Faith . abfolutß 'and pártitular.i fo that by looking to the Cibject, and believing jt, it becomes future, and indeed antecedently to, and prefcinding from Man's Faith and Unbelief: No Pro= pofrior..s enunciative of Damnation, or Sal- vation, are determinately either true or falte, but they are true, modally, determinative-. ly, as to Perfons, thefe Perfons. believe or , misbelieve : Renee it is not needful,that this öfition Pro Thy Si ffiall be P ns pardoned, be revealed before Faith, becaiife it is Faith which "-applies, and evidences the Truth' of this, and is the Means by which Remi% lion of Sins is ac.tuatly applied, and made ours : But the Lord commands . us to be lieve the Remiffion of Sins, becaufe, ïn;bè- lleying,` it íi;ll be ,á,ccomplithed, for Re-, Initlion

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