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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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2. There is a Temporary Faith, called so, because it doth abide but for a season, it being not able to endure the force of persecution, and this is a degree higher then the former, for that was only in the understanding, and so had no efficacy upon the heart or affections at all, but this temporary faith is carried out with some affections, both to the person revealing, and the matter revealed, for Mat. 13. They received the Word with joy, who believed but for a season.
3. There is the Faith of Miracles, which was granted in the primitive times of the Church, for the confirmation of the Gospel, and that sometimes to those who were not justified persons, and this had for the object of it a peculiar and special promise for the doing such or such miraculous effects, and answerable to this, some learned Divines do acknowledge still a special faith, whereby the godly are sometimes raised up for the effecting of a particular mercy, they stand in need of.
1Lastly, There is this Justifying or saving Faith, which hath for it's proper object Christ crucified, and so by resting upon him brings reconciliation with God, and peace in the conscience. It's true, some distinguish between justifying faith, and saving, as if all that faith, which did justify, did not also save, but that is built upon that dangerous foundation, as if there might be Apostasy from the true faith.
1Lastly, There is this Justifying or saving Faith, which hath for it's proper object Christ crucified, and so by resting upon him brings reconciliation with God, and peace in the conscience. It's true, some distinguish between justifying faith, and saving, as if all that faith, which did justifie, did not also save, but that is built upon that dangerous foundation, as if there might be Apostasie from the true faith.