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INWARD WITNESS
TO
CHRISTIANITY:
[SEAM.
III..
one
that
believeth.
Which
is
but
the sense
of.my
text
in
other
words.
Every
one
that
believes
it
in
truth, bath
this evidence. in
himself,.
'even' eternal
life
:
;Therefore I
count not.my
life
dear
to
me, &c.
for
the gospel
will
bear
me
out
in my
profession
of it,
in
my
publication
of
it,
and
in
my
suffering
for
it.
This
is
the
way we
shall
learn
to resist unto blood,
and
seal
the
truth of
this
gos
pel with
our
mortal
lives,
if
we
have
the
seal
of
this
truth
abiding
in
our
souls.
.5th
remark.
As
from
this
doctrine
you
have
strong
encouragement
to profess Christianity,
so
you
are
here
taught
the best
way
to honour the
gospel,
and to
propa-
gate
the
christian religion
in
the world. Make this in-
ward divine testimony
appear
to the
world; let
the
eter-
nal
life
that
is
wrought in your
souls
by
this gospel,
ex-
press itself
in all
your
outward behaviour amongst
men.
Thus
the primitive
christians
did,
and
it
was
their
work
to
propagate
the
faith
of Christ
this
way.
.
The Gentiles
and unbelievers
were won
by
their conversation;
1
Pet.
iii.
1.
Thus
the apostles did,
who were as
so
many
captains and
officers in
the army
of
christians, going
be-
fore the camp,
and
making war
against
all
the
idolatry
of
the
heathens..
They
made
that eternal
life which was
wrought
in
their
souls,
appear
publicly,
and
discover
itself
unto
men,
and hereby the
gospel
gained victory
and triumph wheresoever it
went.
When
those
who
were
ignorant
of
faith
and
its power, came
into
the as-
semblies
of
christians,
and
found the gospel
to be a
doctrine
of
such divine
attendants,
it
convinced
their
consciences, and changed many
of
them
into
new
crea-
tures;
they
fell
down,
and
confessed
that
there
is
á
God
among the christians
of
a truth. When
they
see
your
conversation,
when
they behold
your
faith and
holy fear,
your
zeal
for
God, your delight
in
his
worship,
your
gentleness,
your
meekness, kindness,
and goodness to-
wards your
fellow-
creatures, your desire
of
the salva-
tion of
men,
and
readiness
to deny
yourselves for
their
good
;
when
the
heathens
know
and behold
this,
they
shall be
won, says
the
apostle,
by
such a
conversation
as
this
is,
to
the belief of
the saine doctrine,
and,
practice
of.
the
same duties.
O
What
unknown
millions
of
arguments would
support
and adorn
the doctrine.
of
Christ,
if
every professor
.of
it
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