of favi1g Fait& 141 againil; the Execution of the Law; fo the Believer doth not,byanaked Affent,receive the Promifes of í he Gofpel ; but bya practical Af- lent he receivesthePromifes inOrder tohisown Salvation, and hence believes and concludes his own Salvation : As a Man that hath the Difcharge of a Debt, not only believes there is filch a Difcharge, but believes, that throe this he (hall be cleared of the Debt ; fo the Soul of an humbled Sinner, not only believes Chrifl carne to faire Sinners, dyed for Sin- ners, of which he is Chief, but through this Promife as d Name of Chrift, through his Death and RefurreEtion he tall be made happy, with the Enjoyment of all he frauds in Need of, and that nothing but -Unbelief Mall hinder it for it is clear, that the Promifes are the ObjeCt of Faith, and that not on- ly fo, but as they promife Good force good Thing is Faith's Objed, I mean as it ju- 'rifles, and really it is forne Good to the Soul particularly, that Faith clofes with, for o- therwife, what could this Faith do ? For how fluall the believing of a Good in gene- ral, when I believe not, nor know that I have Intereff therein, ftrengthen or comfort the Heart ; for as the Law is fad Tidings to all particularly; fo the Gofpel is good Tidings to all particularly : And as the convinced Sin- ner, who is awakned with the Senfe of, his woful Con doth accule' and condemn 73 S1jyF?N
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