Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

If a redeemed galley-slave be freed, upon condition that he take him for his Redeemer and Master that did deliver him; it need not be expressed, that he shall leave the galleys, and his company, and employment there, and go with him that bought him, and do what he bids him do: All this is plainly implied in the foresaid words, of his Conditions.

If a redeemed gally-slave be freed, upon condition that he take him for his Redeemer and Master that did deliver him; it need not be expressed, that he shall leave the gallies, and his company, and employment there, and go with him that bought him, and do what he bids him do: All this is plainly implyed in the foresaid words, of his Conditions.

So here, the great condition of Believing doth include or imply all the rest.

So here, the great condition of Beleeving doth include or imply all the rest.

I confess it is a work of some worth and difficulty, to show how each other part of the Condition is reducible to Believing; and in what respect they stand towards it. I dare not ⟨p. 153⟩determine too peremptorily here, but I think they stand thus. 1. Hearing the Word, consideration, conviction, godly sorrow, repentance from dead works, are implied as necessary means antecedents. 2. Knowledge of Christ, and Assent to the Truth of the Gospel are at least integral parts of flat necessity, if not essential parts of Faith. 3. Subjection, Acceptance, Consent, cordial covenanting, self-resigning, are the very proper essential, formal Acts of Faith.

I confess it is a work of some worth and difficulty, to shew how each other part of the Condition is reducible to Beleeving; and in what respect they stand towards it. I dare not