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

and if they had but put the Wills Consent to the several Articles and Relations and works of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and our Affiance instead of a persuasion that they are ours &c. I should have yielded to their descriptions. I conclude then, that believing in or on God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is an Act of the Will, as well as of the Understanding, and is saving faith: And therefore all that profess this, profess saving faith: But all that will be baptized, must profess this, therefore.

and if they had but put the Wills Consent to the severall Articles and Relations and works of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and our Affiance instead of a perswasion that they are ours &c. I should have yielded to their descriptions. I conclude then, that believing in or on God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is an Act of the Will, as well as of the Understanding, and is saving faith: And therefore all that profess this, profess saving faith: But all that will be baptized, must profess this, therefore.

3. It is agreed by all Divines that I know, Protestants and Papists, that to believe in the Trinity, is not only to believe in Gods Essence, or the three Persons, but also the Relations and great operations of each person for us: As to believe in God the Father, is to believe in him as our Creator and Sovereign Lord and chief Good. To believe in Jesus Christ, Is to believe in him as Redeemer and Saviour. To believe in the Holy Ghost, is to believe in him as a Sanctifier (and as the great Witness and Agent ⟨p. 68⟩of Christ.) Now it is most certain, that to Profess, Assent and consent that God be my God, Christ my Saviour, the Holy Ghost my Sanctifier, is to profess Saving Faith. And bare Assent is not meant in the words [believing in or on God] as is proved by our Divines at large. And if present consent be expressed, saving Faith is expressed; for no wicked man can truly consent that God shall be his God and chief good, and Christ his Saviour to save him from sin it self, as well as from punishment, and the Holy Ghost his Sanctifier. I may truly say (according to that of Peter Martyr, before cited) that never any but a true believer that had Justifying Faith, did truly say, I believe in God; but speak falsely in so saying. To take God for his God, is a thing that no man can truly do, but those that are called effectually by his Saving Grace.