An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 40. But that Application is such as followeth. 1. I believe that Christ hath died for my sins as well as for the rest of the World. 2. I believe that the Gospel offereth Pardon and Salvation to me as well as to others. 3. I believe that God will have mercy on me, and Christ and Life shall •e mine, if I shall truly believe and repent; and Glory, if I persevere. 4. Hereupon I accept the Offer and Consent to the Covenant of Grace, which giveth me right to these Benefits, if I consent. 5. And so far as I can say that I am sincere in my repenting and believing, so far my Faith helpeth me to conclude that I am justified.

§. 41. But this last is a mixed act, and a rational Conclusion helped by Grace, whereof the major only is de fide [He that believeth is justified] but not the Minor [I believe.] Therefore we usually call it a fruit of Faith.

§. 41. But this last is a mixt act, and a rational Conclusion helped by Grace, whereof the major only is de fide [He that believeth is justified] but not the Minor [I believe.] Therefore we usually call it a fruit of Faith.

§. 42. Some incautious Divines in the heat of Dispute do indeed say, That it is de fide divina, or a Divine Word, that [I am a true Believer.] And Chamier too unhappily goeth about to prove it by saying, That it is the Word of the Spirit in us, which is the [Word of God:] As if the Spirit spake in us new Articles of Faith, or a new Word to be believed, whose work in those that are not inspired Prophets, is but, 1. to cause us to believe that ⟨p. 238⟩Word already given: 2. To be a witnessing Evidence that we are God's Children, by making us holy as he is holy, as similitude witnesseth a Child to be his Fathers. 3. And to help us to discern that Holiness or Evidence, and to exercise it, and to gather Comfort from such discerning it, and exercise.