the Evangelifir, confzdered. 439 to them that beliea.e on his name. yoh. r. r 2. Faith is expreffed by the receiving of Chrii. For to receive him, and to be- lieve on his name, are the fame. It receives him as fet forth of God to be a propitiation for fn, as the great Ordi- nance of God, for the Recovery and Salvation of loft finner's. Wherefore this notion of Faith includes in it, (r.) A fuppo- fition of the propofal and tender of Chrift unto us, for fome end and purpofe. (2.) That this propofal is made unto us in the promife of the Gofpel. Hence as we are Paid to receive Chrift, we are faid to receive the promife alto. (3) The end for which the Lord Chrift is fo propofed unto us, in the promife of the Gofpel; and this is the fame with that for which he was fo propofed in the firft promife, namely, The recovery andfalvation of loflftnners. (g.) That in the tender of his perfon, there is a tender made of all the Fruits of his Mediation, as containing the way and means of our deliver- ance from fin, and acceptance with God. (i.) There is no- thing required on our part unto an intereft in the end pro- poled, but receiving of him, or believing on his name. (6.) Hereby are we intitled unto the Heavenly inheritance, we have power to become the Sons of God, wherein our Adoption is aflerted, and Juftification included. What this receiving of Chrift is, and wherein it doth confift, bath been declared before, in the confideration of that Faith whereby we are juftified. That which hence we argue is, That there is no more required unto the obtaining of a right and title unto the Heavenly Inheritance, but Faith alone in the name of Chrifi, the receiving of Chri.i as the ordnance of God ,. for Juftification and Salvation. This gives us, I fay, our original right thereunto, and therein our acceptance with God, which is our Juftification, though more be required unto the aáual acquifition and poflëffion of it. It is faid in- deed, that other Graces and Works are not excluded, though Faith alone be expreffed. But every thing which is not a receiving
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