offavin:g .Faith. 5' 3 SECT. I V. >' Ufes and practical Inferences. (z.) lj]'E may hence fee. how much- tin- found Faith is' to be found a-- mongft Profelib s, and how many 'fail in clof- ing with the right Object : All Actions are fpecified,fronl their Objects, Principles., Ends, and Manner of Tendency, by which true, Lying Faith is diltingui{hed from all other Sorts of Faith : Hypocrites an Saints as they have not one Faith,. fo they have not one Objet of Faith, never an Hypacrite but failed- in the 'Object of Faith, and I fhail Thew (7.) Sorts of Hypocrites which fail in Regard of the Object,. (z.)' Thefe who be- lieve, and have no Word-at all, that hope confidently they {hall be faved,-and that Chrift is theirs, and that they will go to Heaven, and hereupon live fecurely, and yet know not fo much as one Word or Promife in all the Scripture, to inftruét that Title and Claim, and ground their Belief upon. No Word up, on which they can fay, The Lord hath cauj- ed thém to hope. Pfal. cxix. 49. This is the Faith of the Ignorant and Prophane amonglf us this Day : Ask them, Do they think to be. faxed ? They will anfwer they do, pot, queítion it but enquire what Ground they
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