The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

From whence I gather, that their faith is but a general and confused faith, whereby they are persuaded, that God will bestow many great and glorious things upon those that are in Christ, but never wrestle with their own souls, to apply and appropriate the same unto themselves; they know not what it meaneth to have Christs Righteousness theirs, or their sins to be laid upon him: they feel no testimony of reconciliation to God, no assurance that all things are for good unto them, no peace of conscience, no hope of eternal life, the excellency whereof they are ravished withal, and admire to behold in others, as Balaam the false prophet did, but find in themselves no comfort of it, no more then a man doth of the Sun, when it shineth not in his own Horizon.

From whence I gather, that their faith is but a generall and confused faith, whereby they are perswaded, that God will bestow many great and glorious things vpon those that are in Christ, but neuer wrestle with their owne soules, to apply and appropriate the same vnto themselues; they know not what it meaneth to haue Christs Righteousnesse theirs, or their sinnes to be layed vpon him: they feele no testimonie of reconciliation to God, no assurance that all things are for good vnto them, no peace of conscience, no hope of eternall life, the excellencie whereof they are rauished withall, and admire to behold in others, as Balaam the false prophet did, but finde in themselues no comfort of it, no more then a man doth of the Sunne, when it shineth not in his owne Horizon.

The second difference between the nature of faith and it, is, that this taste (whatsoever the same be) is not of Christ himself, whose ^sleast touch hath a saving virtue joined with it, but of some sweetness that cometh from him; no more then the Cooke that licketh his fingers, can be said to eat of the meat prepared for his Masters Table: So as their estate may be likened unto those, who coming out of a close Dungeon, where, in all their life, they never saw the Sun, as soon as they come into a more open place, upon the first casting of the beams, are ravished with the excellency of the Sun, though yet they see not the Sun it self: for the Reprobate only see a glimmering of the light of the Sun, at the dawning of the day, before it ariseth; whereas the Elect have the