Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

1. By saving Faith, I mean, an unfeigned Belief of the truth of the Gospel, with an unfeigned acceptance of Christ, who is there offered to be our sufficient and only Saviour, from the guilt of sin by his blood and merits, and from the power of it by his spirit also, and to bring us to glory in the fruition of God. Or it is a sinners assent to the truth of the Gospel in the essentials, and a sincere consent that God be immediately our only God, and Christ our only Saviour, and the Holy Ghost our only Sanctifier, and we his people in these Relations. I say immediately, that is, at present because if it be only a consent to be such hereafter, it is not saving. Or as the Assembly say, it is the embracing of Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel; Or it is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon Jesus Christ alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the Gospel. It is in those respects that are essential to the Office o the Redeemer and Saviour.

1. By saving Faith, I mean, an unfeigned Belief of the truth of the Gospel, with an unfeigned acceptance of Christ, who is there of•ered to be our sufficient and only Saviour, from the guilt of sin by his blood and merits, and from the power of it by his spirit also, and to bring us to glory in the fruition of God. Or it is a sinners assent to the truth of the Gospel in the essentials, and a sincere consent that God be immediately our only God, and Christ our only Saviour, and the Holy Ghost our only Sanctifier, and we his people in these Relations. I say immediately, that is, at present because if it be only a consent to be such hereafter, it is not saving. Or as the Assembly say, it is the embracing of Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel; Or it is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon Jesus Christ alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the Gospel. It is in those respects that are essential to the Office o the Redeemer and Saviour.

2. By Profession I mean in the proper sense that which hath something present for its Object or subject professed; and difference it from a Promise which is only of something future For it is a present Assent and consent that is to be professed though withal the object of this professed consent must be both the present and future relation to Christ; viz, that he be our Saviour and we his saved people from this time forth and for ever. So that a certain Promise de futuro (in the strength of grace) may be said to be made, in that a man must profess his consent both de presente et de futuro. But still though it be to a future Relation to Christ as well as a presen, yet is it ever to a present as well as a future: It is a present consent, that Christ be presently