of .Ïul?ifying Faiths It would underítand the Natureof Faith, we muft take our Meafures by the Call of God in the Gofpel, of which Faith is the Eccho : What God declares in the Gofpel, that Faith muft agent and fay Amen to, what it (peaks to the Soul it fell, it mutt believe ; what the Go pe commands, the Soul muff obey : That Faith therefore which the Gofpel calls for, is, That we are bound to have, and of which our prefent Difquifiticn is, as Cl-irifC is fo is he believed Rom. io. Faith cometb by Hearing, and Hearing by the Word of God. Rule 3d. Our Apprehenfions of Faith muft be fquared to the Notion of an Inftr.u ment of Jufihcatior' : By the Stream of Or- thodox Divines, it is affirmed, That Faith doth not juftify meeriy conditionaly,' but in- trumentally ; which however, to forne, it Teems but a fmall Matter ; yet is it (and will be found fo) to be ofno little Import to affirm, Whether Faith juftify conditionally, or iuitru- mentally : We mutt therefore fo conceive of .. Faith, as to make it fomething in its ownNa- ture apt to juftify ; even as the Hand is more apt to receive and grip any Thing, than any other Member of the Body. Tho' there be no Merit in the Act of Faith, yet it propones fomething that in Law takes away the India- ment ofJuítice againk the poor Sinner : What- ever therefore you fay and do, that in Equi- ty will not abfolve you from the Purfuit of the
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