Q6o The souks of4E1uaU calling ro Chrift. ment faith it is all true, and yeeldsfully with the wholearcane of his minde, this is that which theScripture fometimescallsbeleeving, and it is nothingbut thebare affent to the truth, faying,it isfo. Secondly, when the will em7Draceth that good in the promife formerly revealed, when thewill of a man cláimesGods Statutes, and rafts his heart and hope upon the goodnef è of the pro. mite. Now the judicious profeifourbath faith in the firft fence, bee afí'ents toall the truthsof the Scriptures, and acknowledgeth that they are true; thedevills in hell have this faith too, and all that have no more than this faith, {hall goe to thedevill too, as lames2. t 9. in the 14. verfe, the Apoftic faith, ifa man fad bee hash faith, and bath not workes,will thatprofit him : and in the a9.verfe; thoubeleeveff there is one God, thou doll welá, the de- ßílr alfo beleeve and tremblé ; that is, they afIent to all the truths ofScripture that God reveals, and this is thebeleeving of this great man which we have difcovered in his fafhion, when a man can divedeepe into the Scriptures, and underhand all the texts, and untyevery knot,and difpute all queftions, and is able to judge of the reafons of them, is this thy faith ? the devill I imfelfe will outbid this faith : Ifcunning, and judgement, and knowledge be thy faith, thedevils have this faith, the' know the Lord Jefius Chrift is the Sonne of the 'tnott high God , they know that the iliercy of the Lord Chrift is great, and that they (hall never tafkeof it; they know that
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