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

And indeed, the Image of Gods WISDOM, GOODNESS and POWER on the souls of all true Christians in the world, successively to this day, considered in it self, and in its agreement with the same Image in the holy Scriptures, which do imprint it, and in its agreement or sameness as found in all Ages, Nations and Persons, is such a standing perpetual evidence that the Christian Religion is Divine, that (being still at hand) it should be exceeding satisfactory to a considerate Believer, against all doubts and temptations to unbelief. And were it not lest, I should instead of an Index, give you too large a recital of what I have more fully written in my foresaid Treatise, I would here stay yet to show you how impossible it is that this Spirit of Holiness, which we feel in us, and see by the effects in others, even in every true Believer, should be caused by a word of falsehood, which he abhorreth, and as the Just Ruler of the world, would be obliged to disown.

And indeed, the Image of Gods WISDOM, GOODNESS and POWER on the souls of all true Christians in the world, successively to this day, considered in it self, and in its agreement with the same Image in the holy Scriptures, which do imprint it, and in its agreement or sameness as found in all Ages, Nations and Persons, is such a standing perpetual evidence that the Christian Religion is Divine, that (being still at hand) it should be exceeding satisfactory to a considerate Believer, against all doubts and temptations to unbelief. And were it not lest, I should instead of an Index, give you too large a recital of what I have more fully written in my foresaid Treatise, I would here stay yet to shew you how impossible it is that this Spirit of Holiness, which we feel in us, and see by the effects in others, even in every true Believer, should be caused by a word of falshood, which he abhorreth, and as the Just Ruler of the world, would be obliged to disown.

I shall only here desire you by the way to note that when I have all this while showed you that the SPIRIT is the great witness of the truth of Christianity, that it is, this spirit of Wisdom, Goodness and Power, in the Prophets, in Christ, in the Apostles, and in all Christians, expressed in the doctrine, and the practices aforesaid, which I mean; as being principally the Evidences, or objective witness of Jesus Christ; and secondarily, being in all true Believers, their teacher, or illuminator and sanctifier, efficiently to cause them to perceive the aforesaid objective Evidences in its cogent undeniable