1 2 2 7ufßif ing Faith, the Gaufe.r, °bjeI, J proper Obje& of it. And it is reprefènted their looking un- to the Brazen Serpent when it was lifted up, who were flung by fiery Serpents, Yoh. 3. 14, 15. chap. 12. 32. Faith is that Aet of the Soul whereby Convinced finners, ready otherwife to perifh, do look unto Chrift as he was made a Propitiation for their fins; and who fo do (hall not perifh but have Ever - lafting Life. He is therefore the Obje& of our Faith. 2ly. He is fo as he is the Ordinance of God unto this End, which confideration is not to be feparated from our Faith in him. And this alto is confirmed by feveral forts of Tefti- monies. r. All Thofe wherein the Love and Grace of God are pro - pofed as the only Carafe of giving Jefus Chrift to be the way and means of our Recovery and Salvation, whence they be- come, or God in them, the fupream Efficient Caufe of our Juftification, Joh. 3. 16. God fo loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believed) on him fhould not perifh, but have Everlaling Life, So Rom. 5. 8. i Joh. 4. 9, 1o. Being juflifîed freely by his Grace, through the Redemption that is in Chrifi, Rom. 3.23. Ephef. r. 6, 7, 8. This theLord Chrift direecs our Faith unto continually, referring all unto bim. that Cent him, and whole Will he came to do, Heb. 10. 5. 2. All thole wherein God is Paid to ft forth and propofe hrifl,, and to make him be for us, and unto us, what he is fo, unto the Juftification of Life, Rom. 3. 25. Whom God bath propof d to be a Propitiation, 1 Cor. i. 30. Who of God is made unto us Wifdom and Righteoufnef, and SanClification and Redemption, 2 Cor. 5. 21. He bath made bim to be fin for us,. who knew no fn, that we might be made the R ighteouf of of God in him.. A&. 5.. 35. &c. Wherefore in the ailing of Faith in Chrift unto. Juftification, we can no otherwife confider him but as the Ordinance of God to that End ; he brings nothing o us,. does nothing, for us; but what God appointed,, de- figned,
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