Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

3. If thou art chosen for salvation, then sooner or later thou shalt have true soul-saving justifying faith;¹ As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. When God hath a people to call home to himself, he either brings them to the means, or the means to them, and those that belong to the Election of Grace believe; O my soul, hast thou this saving faith? not a fancied faith, a dead faith, an easy faith, but saving faith; such a faith as was wrought in thee by the Word and Spirit with power; such a faith as was not in any power to give, nor in any power to receive, until God enable thee by his Spirit;² then here is thy ground that thou art ordained to eternal life: for whom he calls he justifies; and we are justified by faith. Not that the essence of faith justifies, but faith justifies instrumentally, in that it lays hold upon that which justifies, even the righteousness of Christ Jesus.

3. If thou art chosen for salvation, then sooner or later thou shalt have true soul-saving justifying faith;¹ As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. When God hath a people to call home to himself, he either brings them to the means, or the means to them, and those that belong to the Election of Grace believe; O my soul, hast thou this saving faith? not a fancied faith, a dead faith, an easie faith, but saving faith; such a faith as was wrought in thee by the Word and Spirit with power; such a faith as was not in any power to give, nor in any power to receive, untill God enable thee by his Spirit;² then here is thy ground that thou art ordained to eternal life: for whom he calls he justifies; and we are justified by faith. Not that the essence of faith justifies, but faith justifies instrumentally, in that it lays hold upon that which justifies, even the righteousness of Christ Jesus.

1. 1Acts 13.48.
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