Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…

Where note of this special Heavenly light, 1. The being, usually the Consequent of a more common knowledge, ⟨p. 447⟩therefore most ordinarily the sum of Christian Doctrine is in some manner known before. 2. That it doth not reveal only some one point of Faith alone, and then another, and so on: as if we savingly knew one essential point of Faith, when we have no saving Knowledge of the rest: For that is a Contradiction. But finding all these Truths received in the mind before by a common Knowledge, the special Light comes in upon them all at once; and so shows us the Anatomy of Christianity, or the parts of Gods Image in one frame, as to the essentials. 3. For the understanding of which you must further know, that there is such an inseparable connection of these Truths, and such a dependence of one upon another, that it is not possible to know one of them truly, and not know all. For example, Believing in Jesus Christ, is an act so inseparable from the rest, that (if the essentials of Christianity be not essential to it) certainly you cannot do this without them. For to Believe in Christ, is essentially to believe in him as God and man, two Natures in one Person, by Office the Mediator, our Redeemer and Saviour, to ⟨p. 448⟩save us from guilt and sin, from punishment, and pollution, and to give us by the Holy Ghost, a Holy nature and life, and to give us the forgiveness of sin, and Everlasting life, and so to restore us to the mutual Love of God here, and fruition of him hereafter: and all this as merited and procured by his Death, Obedience, Resurrection, Ascension, and Intercession for his Church. Whether here be all that is Essential to Christianity, and absolutely necessary to Salvation to be believed, I leave to consideration; but sure I am that all this is Essential to saving Justifying Faith. And Christ is not taken as Christ, if he be not thus taken: For the Ends thus enter the definition of his Relation as the Redeemer, and Saviour, and Lord.

Where note of this special Heavenly light, 1. The being, usually the Consequent of a more common knowledg, ⟨p. 447⟩therefore most ordinarily the sum of Christian Doctrine is in some manner known before. 2. That it doth not reveal only some one point of Faith alone, and then another, and so on: as if we savingly knew one essential point of Faith, when we have no saving Knowledg of the rest: For that is a Contradiction. But finding all these Truths received in the mind before by a common Knowledg, the special Light comes in upon them all at once; and so shews us the Anatomy of Christianity, or the parts of Gods Image in one frame, as to the essentials. 3. For the understanding of which you must further know, that there is such an inseparable connection of these Truths, and such a dependance of one upon another, that it is not possible to know one of them truly, and not know all. For example, Believing in Jesus Christ, is an act so inseparable from the rest, that (if the essentials of Christianity be not essential to it) certainly you cannot do this without them. For to Believe in Christ, is essentially to believe in him as God and man, two Natures in one Person, by Office the Mediator, our Redeemer and Saviour, to