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

7. This assenting act of Faith, by which at once we believe Christ to be the Propitiator, and God to be propitiated by him, is not the belief that my sins are actually pardoned, and my soul actually reconciled and justified; but it includeth the belief of the history of Christs satisfaction, and of the common conditional Covenant of Promise and Offer from God, viz. that God is so far reconciled by the Mediator, as that he will forgive, and justify, and glorify all that Repent and Believe, that is, that return to God by faith in Christ; and offereth this mercy to all, and entreateth them to accept it, and will ⟨p. 220⟩condemn none of them but those that finally reject i•. […] things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the Ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation: Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled unto God, 2 Cor. 5.18, 19, 20. So that it is at once the belief of the Father as reconciled, and the Son as the Reconcil•r, and that according to the tenor of the common conditional Covenant, which is the first assenting part of saving Faith.

7. This assenting act of Faith, by which at once we believe Christ to be the Propitiator, and God to be propitiated by him, is not the belief that my sins are actually pardoned, and my soul actually reconciled and justified; but it includeth the belief of the history of Christs satisfaction, and of the common conditional Covenant of Promise and Offer from God, viz. that God is so far reconciled by the Mediatour, as that he will forgive, and justifie, and glorifie all that Repent and Believe, that is, that return to God by faith in Christ; and offereth this mercy to all, and intreateth them to accept it, and will ⟨p. 220⟩condemn none of them but those that finally reject i•. 〈…〉 things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the Ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himslf, not imputing their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation: Now then we are Embassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled unto God,