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¹From hence then may we learn how to try and examine the sincerity, and the soundness of our Faith. ^cTry your selves, saith the Apostle, whether you be in the Faith: whether you be sound or ^dunsound. (The word would not be translated reprobates, as we commonly use that term.) Here is a Touchstone to try it by. If our Faith and Confidence in Christ be accompanied with fidelity and faithfulness unto Christ: if we be careful as well to observe what he requireth of us, as to expect what he promiseth. It is ^ethe Nature of Faith, saith Chrysostom, to single out God; to make him as Thomas speaketh, ^fMy Lord, and my God: and as to single out God himself, so to apply his promises in particular to the faithful party: ^gWho hath loved me, saith the Apostle, and given himself for me. But we must know withal, that true Faith is careful as well to apply Gods ^*precepts, as his ⟨p. 7⟩^“promises. ^hWhen thou sayest, Seek my face; my soul answereth thee again, Thy Face, Lord, will I seek. Yea, to that end saith Chrysostom, doth the Apostle make that particular application of Gods grace and goodness to himself, ^*to imply thereby his own particular engagement to God for it. And it is no true Faith that regardeth not the one as well as the other. Hence it is, that it is said of some, that ^gthey became obedient to the faith: and of the Romans, that