erintio fait!). 399 in Sovereignty withdraws, or Satan in envy buffets, or the Believer lets down his Spiri- tual Watch, or a due eflimate is not fet on Heavenly Comforts or there is force great Tranfgre[lìon which as an accurred thing, eagles the Lord to depart. In fuch cafes, though there be no intercifion of Juflification , yet there is an interruption of Confolation. Thefe Things premifed I proceed to prove the Point, viz. That a Believer may attain Affu- rance of Pardon and Salvation. In the fire( Place the Names and Titles given unto Faith in Scripture are remarkable. 'Tis called vzaósaosç, The fubfiifence of things hoped for Glory and Salvation are hoped for by us ; but Faith maks them as certain, as if they were prefent to us. The Hebrews have a Vau converfivum,which turns the Future into the Preter -tenfe ; fuch a thing is Faith which prefentiates future Things to the Belie- ver, Thatye may know that ye have eternal life, faith john: It is not km, ye (hall have it, but Vxre) ye have it in prefenti, it already fubfifls in your Faith. 'Tis called iMJxos, the evi- dence of things not feen : Eternal Life cannot be feen by corruptible Eyes, but Faith doth fo point out and demonfirate it, as if it were vifible or fenfible ; We know that we have pap fedfrom Death to Life, i fohn 3. i 4. As if the Apofile had faid, We are indeed in the very Borders of Heaven, and we know it as it were fenfibly, as we do our paffage from one Place to another. 'Tis let out by Irivíûna'ts, a ffronn per-
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