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

Quest. Was it before necessary to have an explicit belief in the Holy Ghost as the third person in the blessed Trinity, and as the third principle of the divine operations, and were the faithful then in Covenant with him?

Quest. Was it before necessary to have an explicite belief in the Holy Ghost as the third person in the blessed Trinity, and as the third principle of the divine operations, and were the faithful then in Covenant with him?

Answ. Distinguish between the Person and the Name: No Name is necessary to salvation; else none could be saved but men of one language: To believe in the Holy Ghost under that Name, was not necessary to salvation (nor yet is) for he that speaketh and heareth of him in Greek, or Latin, or Slavonian, &c. may be saved, though he never learnt the English tongue: But to believe in the Energetical, or operative, or communicative Love of God, was always necessary to salvation, considered in the thing, and not only in the Name: As it was to believe in his Power and his Wisdom: And to believe which is the first, and which the second, and which the third, is not yet of absolute necessity to salvation; while they are coequal and coessential; and it was necessary to the Jews to believe, that this Love of God did operate, and was communicated to the faithful, not upon the terms of innocency, according to the first Covenant; but to sinners that deserved death, and upon terms of mercy, through the Covenant of ⟨p. 205⟩Grace, which was made with lapsed man in order to his recovery, through a Redeemer.

Answ. Distinguish between the Person and the Name: No Name is necessary to salvation; else none could be saved but men of one language: To believe in the Holy Ghost under that Name, was not necessary to salvation (nor yet is) for he that speaketh and heareth of him in Greek, or Latine, or Sclavonian, &c. may be saved, though he never learnt the English tongue: But to believe in the Energetical, or operative, or communicative Love of God, was alwaies necessary to salvation, considered in the thing, and not only in the Name: As it was to believe in his Power and his Wisdom: And to believe which is the first, and which the second, and which the third, is not yet of absolute necessity to salvation; while they are coequal and coessential; and it was necessary to the Jews to believe, that this Love of God did operate, and was communicated to the faithful, not upon the terms of innocency, according to the first Covenant; but to sinners that deserved death, and upon terms of mercy, through the Covenant of