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

Answ. The Spirit is oft called in Scripture, the witness, and pledge, and earnest, in the same sense; that is, it is the evidence of our right to Christ and life. If any man have not his Spirit, he is none of his, Rom. 8.9. And hereby we know that he dwelleth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. As the Spirits Miracles were the witness of Christ, Heb. 2.3, &c. objectively, as evidence is called witness. 2. And withal the Spirit by illumination and excitation helpeth us to see it self as our evidence. 3. And to rejoice in this discovery. And thus the Spirit witnesseth our adoption. But none of these are the proper objects of a Divine Belief. 1. The objective evidence of holiness in us, is the object of our rational self-acquaintance, or conscience only. 2. The illuminating grace by which we see this, is not a new Divine Testimony, or proper Revelation, or Word of God; but the same help of grace by which all other divine things are known. And all the Spirits grace for our understanding of divine Revelations are not new objective Revelations themselves; requiring a new act of Faith for them. A word or proper Revelation from God is the object of divine belief; otherwise every illuminating act of the Spirit for our understanding Gods Word, would be it self a new word, to be believed, and so in infinitum.

Answ. The Spirit is oft called in Scripture, the witness, and pledge, and earnest, in the same sense; that is, it is the evid•nce of our right to Christ and life. If any man have not his Spirit, he is none of his, Rom. 8.9. And hereby we know that he dweleth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. As the Spirits Miracles were the witness of Christ, Heb. 2.3, &c. objectively, as evidence is called witness. 2. And withall the Spirit by illumination and excitation helpeth us to see it self as our evidence. 3. And to rejoyce in this discovery. And thus the Spirit witnesseth our adoption. But none of these are the proper objects of a Divine Belief. 1. The objective evidence of holiness in us, is the object of our rational self-acquaintance, or conscience only. 2. The illuminating grace by which we see this, is not a new Divine Testimony, or proper Revelation, or Word of God; but the same help of grace by which all other divine things are known. And all the Spirits grace for our understanding of divine Revelations are not new objective Revelations themselves; requiring a new act of Faith for them. A word or proper Revelation from God is the object of divine belief; otherwise every illuminating act of the Spirit for our understanding Gods Word, would be it self a new word, to be believed, and so in infinitum.