Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

Argument 1. If many or all these art so linked together, that to believe one of them as revealed in Scripture, is to believe more or all, then it is not any one of them alone that is the object of that Faith which Paul opposeth to works. But the Antecedent is true, as is evident, e. g. To believe in Christ, is to believe the promise of the Gospel concerning Christ. For there is no Belief without a word of revelation to believe. So that here Christ and the Promise are necessarily conjunct, and Christ and the Gospel History. And to believe the Gospel with a Divine Faith, is to Believe Gods veracity, and to believe the Gospel because of Gods Veracity: For this is the Objectum formale without which there is no faith. So that Believing in God is ⟨p. 409⟩essential to all Divine faith. Also materially; to Believe in Christ, is to Believe in him as our Saviour, to save us from the Guilt of sin, even as to believe in a Physician is to Trust on him to cure us of our Diseases. So forgiveness of sin, being an end essential to Christs Office, it is essential to our Faith in Christ. So also to believe in Christ as a Saviour, is to believe in him as one that is able and willing to reconcile us, and bring us to the favour of God: And so God and his favour and Reconciliation with him are ends essential to the office of a Saviour (as health is to the Physicians) and therefore they are essential to our Belief in a Saviour. The same may be said of eternal Life: so that you may see that these have essential respects to one another, and Christ cannot be believed in alone without the rest as co-essentials respectively in the object of our faith. Nor can the Promise be believed without believing in the Promiser and Promised.

Argument 1. If many or all these art so linked together, that to believe one of them as revealed in Scripture, is to believe more or all, then it is not any one of them alone that is the object of that Faith which Paul opposeth to works. But the Antecedent is true, as is evident, e. g. To believe in Christ, is to believe the promise of the Gospel concerning Christ. For there is no Belief without a word of revelation to believe. So that here Christ and the Promise are necessarily conjunct, and Christ and the Gospel History. And to believe the Gospel with a Divine Faith, is to Believe Gods veracity, and to believe the Gospel because of Gods Veracity: For this is the Objectum formale without which there is no faith. So that Believing in God is ⟨p. 409⟩