unto t!;e Perfon of C!Jrifl~ I 55 and unconquerable Motives to fix our Faith,Hope, Trurt and Confidence in him. His Divine Nature is the ground and warranty for our fo doing. This is that from whence he is the due and pr_oper Ooject of all -Divine Faith and Wodhip. From the Po.wer and Vertue thereof do we expeCt and receive aU thofe thmgs which in our believing on him we feek after.. For none b~t God can bertow them on us, or work them m us. There lS in all the afrings of our Faith on him, the voice of the Confeffion ofThomas, lJily Lordancl my God. · . · His Divine Perfon wherein he is God and Man, wherem _he hath that Nature which is the formal ObjeCt of Divine Wodhip, and wherein he wrought all thofe things whieh ~re the Motiv es thereunto, is the Object of this Faith, wh1ch gives its difference aud difiinfrion from Faith in God in gene~ ral, and Faith in the Perfon of the Father, as the fountain of Grace, Love and Power. 2. Faith ·is acted on Chri11: under the formal Notion of Mediator /;etween God and Man. So it is expreffed, I Pet. 1. 21. Who bY him do believe in God that raijed him up from the dead, and gave him Glory, t.hat your Faith and -Hope might be in God. And this aCting of faith towards Chrifr,i-; not contrary unto that before defcribed, nor inconG11:ent with it, though it be diftinct from it. To deny the Perfon of Chrifi to fall under this double confideration, of a Divine Perfon abfolutely, wherein he is Dver allGod Meffidfor ever, and as manifefled in the fiejh, exercifing the Office of Media– tor between God and Man, is to renounce the Gofpel. And according unto the variety of thefe refpects, fo are the afrings ofF.aith various; fome on him abfolutely on the Motives of his Mediation; fome on him as Ivfediator orly. And how neceililry this variety is unto the life, fupportment and com– fort ofBelievers, they all know in fome meafl.1re who are fo . X 2 . See
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