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I have in my Aphorisms, and oft said, that a Christian should rather try his Faith by the Consenting act, than the Trusting act; because many a one cannot find that they can Trust Christ▪ that yet find Consent. But I explain this, or recall it, as not well spoken: For indeed, though it be Consent by which we may surely know our Interest in the Justifying Covenant (specially when practically expressed,) yet Askance or Trust is the Formal Act of Faith, and that Consent is but the Material. For if we Trust not Christs Fidelity, we can neither Assent, Consent or Practi•e. But when I spake as aforesaid, I followed the sense of most complaining Christians who say, They cannot Trust Christ, meaning by Trust, that Quieting of the mind, which is but an effect of Trust: Whereas at that time they take Christ to be Trusty, and a su•••cient Saviour, but are hindered from the applying and quieting Effect, by Ignorance, or doubting of their own Trustiness, and not of the Trustiness of Christ.

I have in my Aphorisms, and oft said, that a Christian should rather try his Faith by the Consenting act, than the Trusting act; because many a one cannot find that they can Trust Christ▪ that yet find Consent. But I explain this, or recall it, as not well spoken: For indeed, though it be Consent by which we may surely know our Interest in the Justifying Covenant (specially when practically exprest,) yet Ass•ance or Trust is the Formal Act of Faith, and that Consent is but the Material. For if we Trust not Christs Fidelity, we can neither Assent, Consent or Practi•e. But when I spake as aforesaid, I followed the sense of most complaining Christians who say, They cannot Trust Christ, meaning by Trust, that Quieting of the mind, which is but an effect of Trust: Whereas at that time they take Christ to be Trusty, and a su•••cient Saviour, but are hindered from the applying and quieting Effect, by Ignorance, or doubting of their own Trustiness, and not of the Trus•iness of Christ.