The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

2 Because I think there is little profit in it, especially in promiscuous Congregations. Such debates being fitter for the ⟨p. 44⟩Schools than for the Pulpit. Polemical and Controversial points may beget Notion, little Motion; fill our heads with Notions, but not our hearts with sanctified affections. And therefore I will break my self in as plain and modest a manner as I can; amongst all these differences to declare what I adhere to, and to establish it by some Scriptures, and so pass it.

2 Because I think there is little profit in it, especially in promiscuous Congregations. Such debates being fitter for the ⟨p. 44⟩Schools than for the Pulpit. Polemical and Controversal points may beget Notion, little Motion; fill our heads with Notions, but not our hearts with sanctifyed affections. And therefore I will break my self in as plain and modest a manner as I can; amongst all these differences to declare what I adhear to, and to establish it by some Scriptures, and so passe it.

Now then I conceive that that formal act of Faith whereby we are justified and instated into Christ, is an Act of Affiance, and recumbency, rolling resting, trusting or Christ for Justification, and consequently for salvation.

Now then I conceive that that formal act of Faith whereby wee are justifyed and instated into Christ, is an Act of Affiance, and recumbency, rowling resting, trusting or Christ for Justification, and consequently for salvation.

For the proof whereof we are to observe, that the words both in the Old and New Testament, by which the Act of Faith is expressed, do import such an act as this.