6 Of sthe.:Manner i were nä, Competition, Luke xv2. I 3. oppofeci to` hating, Mat-. vi, lt is Love fettling on one Objeet," preferring it to other's 'Now, *Faith iS not Love (4.) Faith párticülarly clo%s with Salvation lïV i=ntention; a Man in coirig, to Chuff `wli`h is Faith, doth there"' by intend his owtí°''Salvation. 3ohn vi. 4r. rewill not cowé tb nté : here is the `Fáith :' .Now, the End or Intention of Faith is; "That ye may be 'faxed, or have Life : Hence 'ris faid, I Pet. i, 9. Receiving the' End of your Faith 'the Salvation of your `Sbttl.k : As a Mati who fñoóts at a Mark, he intends to hit the Mark, his Eye is direCted towards this,:- Soa Man'sown Salvation is the Mark at which his Faith 'aims; Faith 'lays hold on the Lord jef'iis, that hemay be faved byhim. (5.) ' By Affent or Concicafon :` For the Soul cordially believing the fteport ofa fiìfficient Saviour come tofave ,Si'-rtyzers, and who never did calf any away that came to him, but ihësi his Blood to fatisfy Divine Juftice for the Sins of Mankind, cloth hereupon addrefs unto him, and e.xpeas and believes Salvation through' him, ga- thers-this Conclilorí from the Ground of the Gofpel formerly laid down ; as' it is with a travelling Man towards his Home, he fees another Man meeting, and making juft to- wardshiìi, ând`°feeirag' his Face diredcd, as it were, to the Place where -he is, : he therefore believes that he will come to 'the Place where 4..t... .. } , . . :-
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