or Form of Faith. áßt firmly with Confidence : The Doubtings therefore of Saints do not infer they have no Af urance. This firm Belief may refeand ly hid, covered with the Rubbilh of Unbe- lief, that it cannotexert its Ads, tho' it be in the Soul, and never can be rooted out : Saints have Grace, tho' they have Sin : Faith may be in the Soul, and yet not aét ; the Doubt, ings of Gods People are not As of Faith ; Unbelief and Faith ad by Turns in the Soul; and Faith never ads, but it firmly adheres to Chrift. (z,) I grant, many who have the Spirit of Adoption have Faith, and really with Confidence believe and look to God as their Father, and expe& and believe Salvati- on through the Grace of Chrift; yet dare not fay that God is their Father, and that Chrift is theirs : As many love him, yet dare not :fay they love him ; Faith is one Thing, and the Senfe of it another: And hence, tho' they ftrongly believe, yet not knowing fo much by a Reflex Ad, want Comfort; for Faith evermore believes good to it feif, when it is in Exercife, and depends firmly, for Good, on theLord, even when the Soul is in Darknefs. i know that my Redeemer liveth, lays Yob in a.. very low Cafe, and Pfal. lxxxviii. I. A Man as much miffed and affaulted with Unbelief; and yet whenever his Faith vents it feif to- wards the Lord, as the God of his Salvation, there is fame Confidence, lefs or more. Luke iï. 73.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=