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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 2: Quest. How may we Experience in our selves, and Evidence to others that serious Godline…
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2. See to your Faith as to the Foundation of it, and the Effects of it; that it be rightly grounded, and rightly qualified, built upon the Word, and fruitful in good works.
2. See to your Faith as to the Foundation of it, and the Effects of it; that it be rightly grounded, and rightly qualified, built upon the Word, and fruitfull in good works.
1. See to the Foundation of it, that it be the Word it self, and not your own mistakes about it. When men misunderstand the Scripture, and so believe it, they Build on their own Errors, not Gods Truth, and then what they call Faith is but a Fancy, as not being grounded on the Word of God, but their own Conceits. See therefore that ye rightly understand what ye profess to believe, and know the mind of God in the Word, and so indeed believe what he speaks, not what you imagine. See that your Faith respect Commands as well as Promises, Duties as well as Privileges, what you are to do, as well as what you are to expect; God joins both together, and if you separate them, you set up a Conceit of your own instead of his Truth. Take heed of believing Promises as absolute, when they are conditional, or when made with some limitations or restrictions, or when they suppose the use of some means prescribed by the Command; in such cases men may think they believe when they do not; there being no right Object for their Faith, they believe what God never spoke. This fallacy appears when men apply Promises to themselves, but overlook the Condition, or the Command annexed; as suppose believe they shall be Pardoned, though they never desire to be purged, shall find mercy though they do not forsake Sin, contrary to the tenor of the Word, Prov. 28.14. or that they shall see God though they do not follow after holiness, contrary to Heb. 12.14. And so when they believe one promise, and not another, the Promise of Justification, but not of Sanctification, ⟨p. 47⟩