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

Ans. I answer, That although every one say he trusteth, yet every one doth not truly trust, for there is a double affiance or trust. The one is a slight and superficial affiance, grounded upon no other foundation than a great apprehension, that it is good to be saved by Christ, but yet so as neither to leave their old course, or embrace a new. The other is a settled and grounded affiance, and so qualified, as that it is not to be found in any not truly justified, if it be, I shall yield the cause.

Ans. I answer, That although every one say hee trusteth, yet every one doth not truly trust, for there is a double affiance or trust. The one is a slight and superficial affiance, grounded upon no other foundation than a great apprehension, that it is good to bee saved by Christ, but yet so as neither to leave their old course, or imbrace a new. The other is a setled and grounded affiance, and so qualified, as that it is not to bee found in any not truly justified, if it bee, I shall yield the cause.

1. It is a holy Trust: Jude, v. 20. Build up one another in your holy faith; not as though holiness were required as an ingredient into faith, in the act of Justification, or giving us our first interest in Christ; but this I mean, by a holy trust, that it is such a trust as is accompanied with holiness in the root, and brings forth works of holiness in the fruit; such a faith as is accompanied with holiness in the heart, and declared in the holiness of our lives: For although it be fides sola, faith alone which justifieth, and gives us the first interest in Christ; yet it is not fides quae sola & solitaria, it is not a faith which is alone, but such a faith as is accompanied with holiness in the root, the graces of Gods Spirit, and holiness in the life.