A26953:11
Memorables of the life of faith taken out of Mr. B's sermon preached before…
Memorables of the life of faith taken out of Mr. B's sermon preached before the King at Whitehall : published thus for the poor that want money and memory / by one desirous to promote the common salvation.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 2. Do you count Faith an Infallible sort of Knowledge then? Why so?
A. Why, 1. So speaks the Scripture, Joh. 6. 69. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God; Rom. 8. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose; 1 Cor. 15. 58. Therefore my beloved Brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 2. Believers know, as sure as they know there is a God, that God is true, and his Word true; Heb. 6. 18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us; Titus 1. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began. 3. They know that the Holy Scripture is the Word of God, by his Image which it beareth, the Evidences of Divinity which it containeth, and the many Miracles by which it is confirmed. God, besides this, gives them to believe, Phil. 1. 29. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; Eph. 2. 8. For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of your selves: it is the gift of God. 4. And Believers have the Spirit of Christ within them to actuate Faith, and help them against Temptations; 1. Cor. 2. 12. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 5. Spiritual Experiences also advantage Faith. They have part of the Holy Scripture verified in themselves, and that much confirms their Faith of the whole. 6. Likewise very Nature affords us undeniable Arguments to prove a future Happiness and Misery. And that doth exceedingly help us in the Faith of the Supernatural Revelation of it. 7. And those that have seen the Objects of our Faith, have given us their Infallible Testimony;