offgvZng ,Faith. Í 29 brt :_ For' as it will not refrefh and nourifh me, to know there is Bread in my Houle, that it nourifhes all who eat it, yea, thoi -I hunger for : it, if I do not eat it ; fo it is not enough for a .poor Sinner to believe that Chrift-is a Saviour, that he died and rote again ; this 4,611 not feed him, unlefs he feed on Chrift as his : yohn vi. 536 And hence Maccovipps in his common Places faith, `'hat we mull MI believe Ghrifi to iv curs, ere we can troll on him. (4,) Becaufc there is no Aptitude, or Eitnefs in any gß.ß neral Propofïtion to juftihe us, as is in the Object of Faith, Doth the Belief of there general Ttuths unite us to Chrift or make them ours ? Is the Saying, I believe there is a Saviour come to fave Sinners, fuffici- ent in Law, and relevant to free thee from the Purfuit of the Law ? If you propound- ed twenty Truths, and believed them all, this will not abfolve you before Men, be caufe you muft fay fomething for your Pelf á Generals will never Hove fufficient Excep- tions againft particular Indieiments and Charges : There is a particular Sentence-a- gainft thee, thou haft finned : And there- fore muft die, the Law faith fo: What haft thou to fay to this ? Oh 1 Chrift died and role again; fay for thee, and it is relevant; but if thou fayft, Not for thee, then. it a grails no more than if thou fhontd fpropont ano-3
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