of favitx Faith. 1St tore, that you, or the third Perlon, Mall be Paved. I grant, but though it be not reveal- ed in fuch a particular Manner, and abfo- lutely that you, or I, or any particular Per- fon Ihall be faved, yet is it revealed ` `biidi- tionally, indefinitely and indeterniinatelÿ,that this or that particular Perfon (hall be fav- ed. I fay, it is revealed conditionally, in Re- fpe& it is revealed, that if you or Is, or any other Perlon (hall believe, we Jhall be _raved. This is particularly revealed, though condi- tionally, and indeed it is not abfolute before Faith ; but when Faith, which is the very, Condition, doth exif?, then the conditional Propofition comes to Faith to be abfolute Wherefore the Obje& which my Faith be- lieves, is not, if I believe I fhall be lived, but this, I believe I thall be faved, and that through the Grace of our Lord Jefus: If ye ask, what Warrant or Ground have I or a- ny Man, to apply a conditional Promife ablolutly ? To the which I anfwer, That the very applicatory Believing of it, being the Condition cf Performance, the Command of God, and my NTecefíities, and the inde- finite Enunciation and Revelation of the Pro- mifes to me, and my Right to them, con- veyed by the Word and Sacraments, is Ef- ficient Ground for me to apply the Promifes to my felt particularly. I fay, (2.) That before Faith, the Promifes are not made particu- 4 larly
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