76 _ Of the Enad Pef gn in belicvi.ng, is to exalt . and ,gloti- fe the Riches of God's Grace Hence, by believing, we are laid to glorifie God. Rom. iv. 18, 2o. An4 the Lord appointed Faith to be the Channel through which all Grace and Mercy thoudd flow, that it might be of Çrace. Rom. iii, I6. But the immediate Def;n and End of Faith, and of him who believes, is the Sal- vation of the Soul. I Pet. i. 9. Receiving the End ofyour Faith, the Salvation of your Souls. John v. 4o. re will not come to me; here is faith, the End_ of it is, that ye may have Life: This Salvation_ and Life conrils in thefe Four, (I.) In .a Freedom ánd Delivery from the Guilt of Sin in Juftifica.tión, and being thereby put in a State of Reconciliation and Eriendfhip with God. (2,) In a Freedom Delivery from Mifery, or the fad EffeÉts Sin, both fpirituai and temporal, and this is an Eftèci of our Jufliñcation, or the` E\- ecution of that Sentence, and is in Part -found in, and partaken of by all juflified Ì'erfons; they are redeemed from the Curfe of heLaw (3.) ThisSalvation lies in our Una- ,on with, and Enjoyment of'Chrift, in whom it pleated the Father that all . chefs fZould dwell, who is the Way, the T°uth, and the Life, cnd whom to know is Life Eternal. John xvii. 40' (4.) This Salvation çonffis in our glö- ri yrng,
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