The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

CHAP. VIII. The pernicious or dangerous Errors detected, which hinder the work of Faith about our Justification; and the contrary Truths asserted.

CHAP. VIII. The pernicious or dangerous Errours detected, which hinder the work of Faith about our Justification; and the contrary Truths asserted.

There is so much dust and controversy raised here to blind the eyes of the weak, and to hinder the life of Faith; and so much poison served up under the name of Justification and Free Grace, that I should be unfaithful if I should not discover it, either through fear of offending the guilty, or of wearying them that had rather venture upon deceit, than upon controversy. And we are now so fortified against the Popish and Socinian extremes, and those whom I am now directing to live by Faith, are so settled against them, that I think it more necessary (having not leisure for both, and having done it heretofore in my Confession) to open at this time the method of false doctrine on the other extreme, which for the most part is it which constituteth Antinomianism, though some of them are maintained by others.

THere is so much dust and controversie raised here to blind the eyes of the weak, and to hinder the life of Faith; and so much poison served up under the name of Justification and Free Grace, that I should be unfaithful if I should not discover it, either through fear of offending the guilty, or of wearying them that had rather venture upon deceit, than upon controversie. And we are now so fortified against the Popish and Secinian extreams, and those whom I am now directing to live by Faith, are so settled against them, that I think it more necessary (having not leisure for both, and having done it heretofore in my Confession) to open at this time the method of false doctrine on the other extream, which for the most part is it which constituteth Antinomianism, though some of them are maintained by others.